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MOSCOW. April 26 (Interfax) - Moscow has been sending warning signals to the United States and NATO on the possible catastrophic consequences of their course towards undermining Russia's security, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 25 (Interfax) - The possible deployment of American nuclear weapons in Poland would trigger a new round of rising global tension whose consequences are hard to predict, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ST. PETERSBURG. April 24 (Interfax) - Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev has held talks with representatives of India, Qatar and Iraq at the 12th international meeting of high representatives on security issues. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. March 19 (Interfax) - Almost three quarters (72%) of Russian citizens trust the results of the latest presidential election, the Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) said on its website on Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Feb 14 (Interfax) - Moscow is seeking to control the way in which embassies of unfriendly countries hire their employees inside Russia, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Feb 9 (Interfax) - The Russian Foreign Ministry has expressed gratitude to the United Arab Emirates for its mediation efforts that helped organize the return of Russian soldiers from Ukrainian captivity. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Feb 8 (Interfax) - Russia wants to develop relations with Israel and its policy for the Middle East does not have "a hidden agenda," Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Middle East and North Africa Department Alexander Kinshchak said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Jan 17 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin might meet with his authorized representatives at the end of the month. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Dec 21 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for the national development goals for the period until 2036 to be updated, as the current national projects expire in 2024. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Dec 20 (Interfax) - The work of the parliamentary group dealing with matters relating to the special military operation should continue, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Oct 24 (Interfax) - The Repatriation Department of the Israeli Embassy in Moscow has suspended receiving visitors seeking to be issued with repatriates' visas until the end of this week, the Israeli embassy said on Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BISHKEK. Oct 13 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has received an invitation to visit Iraq from Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Al-Sudani, with whom Putin had talks in Moscow earlier this week, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SOCHI. Oct 5 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian crisis is not a territorial conflict, but is about the basic principles of a new world order, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Sept 20 (Interfax) - The schedules for meeting the needs of the Russian Armed Forces are being followed closely, and the work is often completed ahead of schedule, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Sept 9 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent North Korean leader Kim Jong Un congratulations on the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. July 28 (Interfax) - About one-third of Russians (32%) believe Russia and the West can have friendly relations, according to a poll conducted by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ST. PETERSBURG. July 27 (Interfax) - Russia sees good prospects for cooperation with Mozambique in energy, technology, fishing, and agriculture, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. July 21 (Interfax) - Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin and Andrei Fedyayev, who are working on the International Space Station (ISS), have tested new equipment for the high-speed transmission of information, Russia's Roscosmos space corporation said on Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. July 13 (Interfax) - The cross-border mechanism for delivering humanitarian aid to Syria (CBM) has been terminated, as the United Nations Security Council failed to reach a compromise on extending its operation, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. July 11 (Interfax) - Russia is taking appropriate advance measures in light of Sweden and Finland's accession to NATO, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. July 5 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has spoken by phone with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the Kremlin press service said on Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. July 4 (Interfax) - Moscow sees no grounds for extending the grain deal, which will expire on July 17, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. June 28 (Interfax) - Russia has asked that representatives of developing countries, which attended the meeting on Ukraine in Copenhagen, inform it about its content, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. June 23 (Interfax) - Russia has broadened the list of representatives of European Union member states and European institutions prohibited from entering its territory, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its website on Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. June 20 (Interfax) - A bill that allows citizens who have a criminal conviction and citizens found fit for military service with restrictions to serve in the Russian Armed Forces under contract passed the third and final reading in the State Duma on Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. June 14 (Interfax) - A summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has been tentatively scheduled for July 4 in a video format, and Russian President Vladimir Putin will communicate with his counterparts in the organization throughout that day, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. May 30 (Interfax) - Russia reserves the right to the toughest possible response to the drone attack on Moscow and the Moscow region, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PYATIGORSK. May 19 (Interfax) - Russia's adversaries view Russia's multi-ethnic composition as the country's area of vulnerability, and are doing all they can to sow disunity among the ethnic groups living in the country, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. May 17 (Interfax) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will host a trilateral meeting with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan in Moscow on Friday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. May 15 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin is meeting with permanent members of the Russian Security Council to discuss additional measures for the development of various business projects with Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROSTOV-ON-DON. May 5 (Interfax) - Some residents of populated localities situated near the line of contact in the northeastern part of the Zaporozhye region have started being evacuated to safer areas, Andrei Kozenko, deputy chief of the Zaporozhye regional administration for economic affairs, told journalists on Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 28 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill into law that imposes harsher penalties for treason, sabotage and terrorism, and introduces a new penalty for helping enforce the decisions of international organizations which Russia is not a member of or those of foreign government agencies, the official website of legal information said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 24 (Interfax) - Russian First Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Titov has discussed implementing agreements reached previously by the Russian and Chinese leaders, as well as a broad range of other issues including the Ukraine crisis, during consultations with his Chinese counterparts in Beijing, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 21 (Interfax) - Russian Security Council Deputy Secretary Dmitry Medvedev has held a meeting on the staffing of the Russian Armed Forces, including with contract servicemen. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ST. PETERSBURG. April 14 (Interfax) - Russia is making all possible efforts to secure the prompt signing of a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan as part of the trilateral agreement, Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 11 (Interfax) - The Russian State Duma endorsed a final report by an ad-hoc parliamentary commission investigating the operations of United States biological laboratories in Ukraine at its session on Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. March 31 (Interfax) - Russia is interested in strategic parity and peaceful co-existence with the United States, according to Russia's updated foreign policy concept. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. March 28 (Interfax) - Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev will meet with counterparts from Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states in New Delhi on Wednesday, the Russian Security Council's press service said on Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. March 23 (Interfax) - The expediency of pulling out of the World Trade Organization is not obvious: membership has its advantages even amid today's severe sanctions-related pressure, and does not get in Russia's way, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KRASNOYARSK. March 22 (Interfax) - Artyom Zakharov, head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's office in Krasnoyarsk, has confirmed reports that an Italian court granted a United States request for Russian businessman Artyom Uss's extradition. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. March 20 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow carefully studied China's plan for Ukrainian settlement and that he is ready to discuss it with Chinese President Xi Jinping. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. March 3 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and permanent members of the Russian Security Council discussed antiterrorism security of sites operated by law enforcement agencies on Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]