US EditionWhat it’s really like to negotiate with Russia’s foul-mouthed foreign minister
- Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov engaged in a tense exchange with US Secretary of State John Kerry at the UN headquarters near the Security Council in 2015.
- The confrontation arose amid disputes over Russian responsibility for Alexander Litvinenko's polonium poisoning in London and Syria's conflict, fueling mutual accusations.
- Lavrov denied Russian involvement in Litvinenko's death, defended Assad’s actions against Islamists, used strong language, and questioned the purpose of the meeting.
- Lavrov told David Miliband to stop "f--- ing lecturing me," swore at Kerry, and claimed Assad avoided targeting humanitarian sites despite conflict reports.
- The episode illustrated Lavrov’s confrontational style and appeared to embody Hannah Arendt's idea that in totalitarian propaganda, "everything was possible and nothing was true.
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Russia aims to strengthen its grip on the Sahel region. Not surprisingly, last week, the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergej Lavrov, received the counterparts of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger in Moscow. At a general level, during the meeting, we discussed how to strengthen relationships...
Russia's Foreign Minister is a master of lies, deception and self-deception, who, with all his talents and talents, has made himself available to the Putin system.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov wrote in an article published in a Russian magazine that a ceasefire alone would not resolve the conflict in Ukraine, TASS reports.
In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, it was reported that the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergei Lavrov, would be visiting Yerevan shortly. On Radio RUSARMINFO, a senior researcher of IMEMO, Ran Viktor Nadein-Raevsky, stated that, regardless of the Western position of the current Armenian authorities, Russia was interested in strengthening bilateral relations. Nadein-Raevsky, as part of the progra…
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