Sergey Lavrov

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on April 7 he hoped U.S. missile strikes on Syria would not irreparably damage relations between Moscow and Washington.

"This is an act of aggression, on an absolutely made-up pretext," Lavrov told a news conference in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. 

A truce between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine will come into force on Feb. 20, Moscow and Kiev said, though some separatists were already labelling it unfeasible.

The Feb. 18 announcement comes after nearly 30 people lost their lives as violence flared again earlier this month in a conflict that has left more than 10,000 people dead since April 2014.

Turkey is not aware of a constitutional draft handed over to Syrian officials from a Russian delegation in Astana, a Foreign Ministry official has said, noting that the stages of the political transitional process have been outlined by U.N. Security Council. 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will hold talks with officials from Syria's political opposition on Jan. 27, Moscow said, but it appeared representatives from armed rebel groups were not invited.

The EU will see its position wane in the global arena if it fails to build mutually advantageous relations with Moscow.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said this after meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, TASS reported on Monday.

MOSCOW - Tensions in the Balkans are rising drastically, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday, expressing the hope everyone understood a new armed conflict must not be allowed to break out, RIA Novosti reported.

"Ethnic Albanian forces should not be present in Serbian-populated areas in the north of Kosovo," Reuters quoted him as saying.

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Russia has invited the U.S. to take part in the upcoming intra-Syrian talks in the Kazakh capital of Astana on Jan. 23, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Jan. 19. 

"The U.S. have already been invited," Lavrov told reporters in Moscow, according to state-run Anadolu Agency. 

Vladimir Putin has dismissed the dossier published last week about alleged links between Moscow and Donald Trump, describing the people who ordered it as “worse than prostitutes”.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Jan. 17 that Moscow had invited representatives of the incoming U.S. administration to attend upcoming Syria talks in Kazakhstan.

Lavrov said at a news conference on Jan. 17 that Russia is encouraged by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's focus on combating terrorism.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu agreed on Jan. 10 on the need to observe a ceasefire in Syria while continuing to fight "terrorist groups", Russia's foreign ministry said.

Lavrov and Çavuşoğlu, who spoke by telephone, discussed an upcoming meeting on the Syrian situation that is due to take place in the Kazakh capital Astana.