Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is prepared to meet his U.S. counterpart Antony Blinken during an upcoming visit to New York, Moscow’s permanent representative to the world body said on April 4. Quoted by Russia’s TASS news agency, Vasily Nebenzya said the meeting would depend on “where Secretary Blinken will be at that time and…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned of an “increasing” threat of nuclear war following months of steadily escalating rhetoric between Moscow and Washington. “This risk [of nuclear conflict] is increasing,” Putin said at a Dec. 7 meeting in Moscow of Russia’s Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights. “Why deny it?”…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday that a report claiming he had been hospitalized in Indonesia due to a heart condition was “fake news,” adding that it was a political ploy ahead of the Group of 20 (G-20) summit. “They [Western media] have been claiming that our president is sick for some 10 years….

The East Asia Summit in Cambodia concluded without a joint statement on Sunday, as Russia and the United States were unable to agree on the language of the statement, Bloomberg reported. The summit, held concurrently with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Cambodia, gathered leaders from ASEAN and the United States, China,…

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s expectations about how Ukraine would respond to an invasion were upended, and instead Ukrainians have never been more united, according to a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. “At this point in time, the ‘rally-around-the-flag’ effect, the idea of coming together, and the idea of social unity in Ukraine has…

The European Union has adopted a fresh round of sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, including freezing the overseas assets of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, a top European official said. Latvia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Edgars Rinkevics, confirmed in a statement that the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council had…

MOSCOW—Russia on Friday strongly reaffirmed its demand that NATO doesn’t expand eastward despite the rejection of that by the military alliance amid a Russian troop buildup near Ukraine. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned that Moscow wouldn’t wait indefinitely for the Western response, saying he expects the United States and NATO to provide a written answer…