Foreign Ministry

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not participate in the BRICS summit in August. Instead, the country will be represented by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commented on the morning drone attack in New Moscow and the Moscow region and accused Kiev of an attempted terrorist attack.

Following the results of the session of the G7 Foreign Ministers' meeting on Ukraine, a general statement was prepared, which states the intention of the "Big Seven" to strengthen sanctions against Russia and provide "resolute support" to Kiev. The document was published by the Japanese Foreign Ministry.

Finland will join NATO on April 4. This was announced by the Secretary General of the alliance Jens Stoltenberg.

The Estonian Foreign Ministry summoned the charge d'affaires of the Russian Embassy to hand him a diplomatic note on the expulsion of an employee of the Russian embassy from the country.

The further position will be determined depending on the real progress on the normalization of Russian agricultural exports, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (pictured) said that Russia will not allow the West to "blow up gas pipelines again" and will refuse to orient its energy policy towards the West in the future.

At the meeting of the foreign ministers of the G20 countries, which took place on March 1-2 in Delhi, the participants failed to come to a consensus on the situation in Ukraine. In this regard, it was decided not to make a collective statement. This was announced by Indian Foreign Minister Subramanyam Jaishankar in an interview with the Associated Press.

The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharova commented on the action with a Ukrainian flag painted on the road in front of the Russian embassy in London. Maria Zakharova called her a "mediocre psychedelic".

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will attend the G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting, which will take place from March 1 to 2 in New Delhi, India. This was announced by the official representative of the Russian diplomatic department, Maria Zakharova.

Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau said that all graduates of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO MFA of Russia) were dismissed from the ministry. According to him, two months have passed since then. The head of the department did not announce the number of dismissed employees.

The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on its citizens to leave the territory of Belarus immediately. The call is connected with the ongoing military special operation in Ukraine, as well as the closure of the airspace of this country.

Russia's diplomatic missions in Turkey and Syria have not yet received information about Russians affected by earthquakes on the territory of these states.

Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Xie Feng said that the destruction of a Chinese scientific balloon that accidentally flew into the United States caused damage to relations between the two countries.

The Austrian authorities are expelling four representatives of the diplomatic corps of the Russian Federation from the country.

The diplomat said that the call concerned the tragedy in Dnepropetrovsk.

Negotiations are underway to open a visa-free regime with the countries of Africa, South America, the Caribbean and the Persian Gulf.

OSCE Secretary General Helga Schmid said that it makes sense for Russia to remain a member of the organization. She stated this in an interview with Welt.