Russia is not afraid of any state in the world, the country’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergey Ryabkov, told journalists ahead of the meeting between Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, and US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, in Geneva. “We are not afraid of anyone, even the US,” Ryabkov said, answering a question from CBS if
The West faces the moment of truth, which has started the countdown in wait for the adoption of Russian proposals on security guarantees addressed to the US and NATO, according to the Head of the Russian delegation at the Vienna Negotiations on Military Security and Arms Control, Konstantin Gavrilov, at the meeting of the OSCE
Relations between Russia and NATO are “at a critically low level,” as stated by the Russian Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Fomin after the two parties hold a meeting in Brussels. “Russian-NATO relations are at a critically low level. This is happening against the backdrop of global instability, the terrorist threat, the deployment of another arms
Yesterday, in Brussels, the meeting of the Russian and NATO representatives took place. Russia expressed its concern after the event was over, as after almost four hours of talks not much was agreed and even some new disagreements were found. Still today, on January 13, there is expected another negotiation to happen with the OSCE
Russia’s Ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, repelled statements that Russia is “solely responsible for unleashing the crisis in Ukraine” given by the US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland on January 11. The Ambassador stressed that such accusatory rhetoric of senior State Department officials does not lead to creating a constructive atmosphere in the
The first meeting since 2019 between high-level delegations from NATO and Russia on security guarantees in Europe as part of the NATO-Russia Council will take place at NATO headquarters in Brussels today, on January 12. The meeting comes after the US-Russia talks in Geneva which were held on Monday, January 10. The US side promised
Russia-US security talks in Geneva on January 10 lasted more than 7 hours but did not help the delegations of the two countries to go any further in solving mutual disagreements. The main focus of the talks on Monday was a proposal Moscow sent to the US last month insisting on depriving NATO’s further expansion
The preliminary part of the Russia-US strategic talks in the format of a working dinner took place in Geneva on Sunday evening, January 9, and lasted more than two hours. The Russian delegation is led by the Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergei Ryabkov, and his US counterpart Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman leads the US
NATO’s goal is to fill a void left over from the fall of the USSR, as stated by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He noted that “NATO is now a purely geopolitical project to develop the territory which was left abandoned after the disappearance of the Warsaw Pact and after the collapse of the
Russian-American negotiations on security guarantees will take place immediately after the New Year holidays, as announced by the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, on Monday, December 27, 2021. “The main thing is, as the President said, that there is no chatter so that our proposals are not muddled in endless discussions about what the West
Moreover, the chair of the German Bundestag’s foreign affairs committee, Michael Roth, said on Sunday, December 19, 2021, that Russia’s demand that NATO stop its eastward expansion is unacceptable. “First, I am glad that, obviously, we are currently at a stage when initiatives are advanced that can be discussed. But this proposal, of course, is
The NATO countries announced their intention to discuss Russia’s proposals on security guarantees this week. However, the attitude towards the document prepared by Russia was quite resolute as seen from the statements about not allowing Moscow to “dictate” the alliance how to act, said by the German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht on Sunday, December 19,
Today, on December 17, the Russian Foreign Ministry revealed the draft documents on legal security guarantees from the US and NATO, which was promised to be done after the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, met Joe Biden. Later, the documents were passed to the US Assistant Secretary of State Karen Donfried. As stated on the Russian Foreign
