Sergey Lavrov

Russia plans to strengthen the control of food imports from Turkey by performing additional border and production checks.

The Russian government authorised the federal agricultural supervision agency, Rosselkhoznadzor, to strengthen control over agricultural products and food imports from Turkey and organise additional checks at borders and production plants in Turkey.

Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said the downing of a Russian jet by Turkey was a “planned provocation.”

Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday during the press conference that Moscow will re-consider its relations with Ankara following the shooting down of the jet on the Turkey-Syria border, but he didn’t mention any specific measures Russia would take.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has described the incident with a Russian warplane at the Turkish-Syrian border as a "planned provocation".

A day earlier, hours after the incident occurred, Lavrov canceled a visit to Turkey that had been scheduled for Wednesday.

Bulgarian ambassador to Turkey, Nadezhda Neynski, said on Wednesday that the worsening of relations between Russia and Turkey could lead to an increase in the refugee wave.

In an interview for private NOVA TV, Neynski commented the downing of the Russian Su-24 warplane by Turkish fighter jets near the Turkish-Syrian border on Tuesday.

The shooting down of a Russian warplane on Nov. 24 marks a first in many aspects. First of all, it is the first Russian warplane downed by a NATO country since the 1950s, and the first shot down by Turkey since the alliance was founded in the late 1940s.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has said it is too early to speculate about what caused the crash of a Russian Su-24 at the Syrian-Turkish border, local media report.

Turkey will host the G-20 Summit in the Mediterranean city of Antalya on Nov. 15-16 at a time when the entire neighborhood is hit by political and economic crises.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov confirmed on Sunday earlier media reports that the Russian foreign ministry had summoned Bulgarian ambassador to Moscow Boyko Kotsev.

Comments made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are at the verge of being "ill-mannered", his Bulgarian counterpart Daniel Mitov has said.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov must feel ashamed before voters of his statement that Russian energy projects in his country have been stopped in favour of partnership relations with the United States, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday.