Question: Why did US National Security Adviser John Bolton come to Moscow?
Sergey Lavrov: To talk. There are many matters we need to discuss. We appr...
Statement of the Russian Federation on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, Marrakesh, December 11, 2018
Embassy comment on the state of the investigation into the death of Nikolay Glushkov
Joint statement by Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bolivia (plurinational state of), Burundi, China, Comoros, Congo, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russian Federation, State of Palestine, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Viet Nam, Zimbabwe at the Fourth review conference of the chemical weapons convention, the Hague, November 30, 2018
Embassy Press Officer’s reply to a media question concerning the UK position on chemical weapons attack in Aleppo, Syria
Embassy Press Officer’s reply to a media question concerning the accusations of “Russian involvement” in the cases of Scott Young and Alexander Perepilichny
Embassy Comment on the situation with Russian nationals Sergei and Yulia Skripal
Embassy Press Officer’s reply to a media question concerning recent publications in the British media concerning alleged increase of Russian intelligence activity
Embassy Press Officer’s reply to a media question concerning recent appeals of the British officials to impose new sanctions against Russia
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Joint Statement by China, France, Russian Federation, United Kingdom and United States
UNGA 73, FIRST COMMITTEE
THEMATIC DEBATE (NUCLEAR WEAPONS)We, the nuclear weapon States recognized by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear...
Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko speaks on Islam Channel's "In Focus"
The Russian Ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko gave an interview to Islam Channel's programme "In Focus". His Excellency spoke on recent UK accu...
Joint Statement by the Presidents of the Republic of Turkey, the French Republic, the Russian Federation and the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
President of the Republic of Turkey H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of the French Republic H.E. Emmanuel Macron, Preside...
Embassy Press Officer’s reply to a media question concerning publications on cyberattacks
Question: Recently there have been numerous publications in British media regarding alleged Russian hacker attacks against the UK infrastructure. Has...
Embassy Press Officer’s reply to a media question concerning the investigation of the death of Nikolay Glushkov
Question: Does the Embassy have any new information regarding circumstances of the death of the Russian citizen Nikolay Glushkov in London on 12 March...
Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko's introductory remarks at the opening of the 2nd Russia-UK Raw Materials Dialogue, 24 October 2018
Ladies and gentlemen,
To me as Russian Ambassador to the UK, it is a privilege to address such an important Russian-British conference. The 2nd Russi...
Embassy Press Officer’s reply to a media question concerning comparisons in Britain between Russian and Saudi Arabia’s reactions to high-profile incidents
Question: After the reports concerning the death of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the British media have been drawing parallels between the ac...
Ushakov Medal presented to the Arctic Convoys Veterans
On 13-14 October 2018 Third Secretary of the Embassy Vadim Retyunskiy presented the Ushakov medals to the Arctic Convoys veterans Mr Geoffrey CONNOR a...
Ambassador's Articles
Russia and Britain should beat Isil as we did the Nazis: together (by Ambassador Yakovenko for The Telegraph)
Sir Winston Churchill knew that faced with evil, Britain and Russia must stand united.As Britain debates its role in fighting Islamic State of Iraq an...
Vienna meeting on Syria: fighting terrorism should become a priority (by Ambassador Yakovenko, for RT)
With the world discussing ways to defeat the ISIS, we are witnessing positive momentum in agreeing a political process for Syria. A second round of co...
What Russia does vs doping usage in sports (by Ambassador Yakovenko, for RT)
In 2009, the National strategy for sport and physical culture was accepted in Russia. One of the cornerstones of the program was heavily stressed anti...
There should be no place for weapons in outer space (by Ambassador Yakovenko, for RT)
On 23 October 2015, on the margins of the UN General Assembly, the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) adopted a Joint...
Chemical weapons in Syria: who is guilty
Against the background of many complex events occurring in the Middle East, the West continues to regularly accuse the Syrian government of using chem...
Facing down Isis threat in Syria together (full text of article by Ambassador Yakovenko for RBTH)
Isis established a bridgehead in Syria and other countries of the Middle East. The terrorists do not conceal their far-reaching plans for further expa...
Minding Isis Threat Jointly (full text of article by Ambassador Yakovenko for London Evening Standard)
Now, that John Kerry and Sergey Lavrov, Ashton Carter and Sergey Shoigu have talked Syria, and Gideon Rachman, Martin Wolf and Con Coughlin have spoke...
On recent Chatham House pieces: minding Ukraine's and one's own business
Sir Andrew Wood writes of the 'flawed' Minsk-2, though he knows, as a diplomat, that those agreements stopped fighting when the Ukrainian forces, incl...
Russia’s UNSC presidency focused on Middle East conflicts (by Ambassador Yakovenko, for RT)
This month Russia is taking over the presidency of the UN Security Council. The Council is going to be busy with the opening of the UN General Assembl...
The Middle East: learning from history or repeating it? (by Ambassador Yakovenko, for the Daily Telegraph)
The successful conclusion of the talks with Iran on its nuclear program is a rare bright spot on the otherwise gloomy horizon of the Middle Eastern af...
Threats to cyber security can only be deterred together (by Ambassador Yakovenko, for RT)
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are being increasingly used for unlawful and hostile purposes that are inconsistent with the basic p...
70th anniversary of the United Nations: as relevant as ever (by Ambassador Yakovenko, for RT)
In September, the UN General Assembly session will be opened by marking the 70th anniversary of the United Nations Organization. The principles that h...
Ukraine: Road to peace runs through Minsk-II (by Ambassador Yakovenko, for RT)
More than 6 months have passed since the February 12 Minsk Agreements on the settlement in Ukraine were struck. However, the ongoing crisis in th...
National System of Payment Cards: more independence (by Ambassador Yakovenko, for RT)
The today’s geopolitical environment made urgent the task of creating the national payment system in Russia. That issue leapt to the top of the...
The Middle East: time for a genuinely collective effort to fight terrorists (by Ambassador Yakovenko, for RT)
Tensions in the Middle East are increasing and the situation in many countries of this region is deteriorating dramatically. The region’s implos...
Eurasian Economic Union reaches out to South-East Asia (by Ambassador Yakovenko, for RT)
The development of regional economic integration is an objective process. In a globalizing and increasingly competitive international environment ther...
ISIS will be defeated if double standards are rejected (by Ambassador Yakovenko, for RT)
Important meetings on the situation in the Middle East, including Syria, Iraq and the fight against ISIS, have taken place in Doha, Qatar. Russian For...
Brics nations offer the world a taste of genuine economic partnership (article in The Daily Telegraph, 3 August 2015)
The seventh BRICS Summit just held in Ufa, Russia, marked a major milestone in partnership. Leaders discussed issues of common interest internationall...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Ufa summit: a major step forward (by Ambassador Yakovenko, for RT)
The SCO summit just held in Ufa, Russia, marked a major step forward in the development of this regional forum. For the first time in its 15-year hist...
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