The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation published Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at the talks with Kerry:

The Kremlin has confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Moscow with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on December 15. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also would be at meeting Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on December 14.

Russia’s top investigative agency has accused exiled tycoon and former prisoner Mikhail Khodorkovsky of involvement in the 1998 killing of a Siberian mayor, accusations he has dismissed as false Guardian says.

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses lawmakers and other officials at the Kremlin in Moscow, December, 3

Media briefing “Russian Federation Armed Forces fighting against international terrorism. New data” in the National Center for State Defence Control.

Russian Defence Ministry presented the evidence that Turkey government and Recep Tayyip Erdogan himself are funnelling millions of dollars in illicit oil revenues to Islamic State terrorists in Syria and Iraq.

The British Parliament is to vote tomorrow, December 2nd, on whether to start air raids on Isil.

On the 30 of November Russian President Vladimir Putin had a 30-minute offstage appointment with the United States leader Barak Obama, but refused to meet the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the World Climate Summit 2015 in Paris. Russia-Turkey relations remain strained since Ankara shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border.

On December 1-2, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will pay a working visit to the Republic of Cyprus. The programme of his stay in Nicosia includes a meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades of Cyprus, negotiations with Minister of Foreign Affairs Ioannes Kasoulides, and talks with President of the House of Representatives Yiannakis Omirou and head of the Cypriot Orthodox Church Archbishop Chrysostomos II.

GRAD is pleased to announce the next in our series of East European documentary theatre programmes. Between 9 October and 13 November GRAD will host three documentary theatre productions on themes of migration in Russia, the UK, and Bulgaria

Sergei Ivanov, head of President Vladimir Putin’s administration, said Moscow had decided to launch air strikes in response to a request from the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.

Afghan forces backed by US air support clashed with Taliban fighters in Kunduz on Tuesday in a bid to retake the center of the northern city