Sergey Lavrov

Syria talks with a fresh format but few fresh ideas opened in the Swiss lakeside town of Lausanne on Oct. 15, with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry seeking a new path to peace after failing to secure a ceasefire in direct talks with Russia.

Russia on Oct. 12 said it would hold Syria talks with the United States and regional powers, including Turkey, this weekend, the first meeting on the conflict since Washington froze bilateral cease-fire negotiations.

BELGRADE - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday he had detected increasing U.S. hostility towards Moscow and complained about what he said was a series of aggressive U.S. steps that threatened Russia's national security, Reuters reports.

The United States broke off talks with Russia on Oct. 3 to implement a cease-fire agreement in Syria, accusing Moscow of not living up to its commitments as part of a Sept. 9 deal to halt the violence and deliver humanitarian aid to besieged communities.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov has said his country does not reject any UN Secretary General candidate outright and will bar none from running in the race.

Minister Sergey Lavrov has already met with both Both Kristalina Georgieva and Irina Bokova, TASS quotes Gatilov as saying.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has told his German counterpart Frank Walter Steinmeier there was "no need to fuel tensions" over the RS Day referendum.

In a telephone conversation on Thursday, Lavrov called on Steinmeier to focus instead on "encouraging the Bosnian sides to start a constructive dialogue," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by TASS.

Russia has said it will press on with a bombing campaign in Syria despite a U.S. warning it will end talks on the conflict if Moscow does not halt its assault, amid the continued bombing of Aleppo.

Russian and Serbian positions on current international problems are similar or close, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

A statement issued after the two countries' foreign ministers, Sergei Lavrov and Ivica Dacic, met in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, said that relations between Russia and Serbia have the character of a strategic partnership.

"The Americans will always do the right thing, after they've exhausted all the alternatives." That quotation is impossible not to recall after hearing U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speak in the U.N. Security Council meetings on Sept.

Turkey, which has sent dozens of tanks and hundreds of troops into Syria as part of the Euphrates Shield operation, on Sept. 10 welcomed a deal agreed by the United States and Russia for a cease-fire in its conflict-torn neighbor.