What it’s really like to negotiate with Russia’s foul-mouthed foreign minister

Russia's Lavrov accuses Ukraine of destabilising Sahel

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused Ukraine of trying to "destabilize" the Sahel region on Thursday.

What it’s really like to negotiate with Russia’s foul-mouthed foreign minister

Sergei Lavrov has become the symbol of Putin’s uniquely mendacious brand of diplomacy

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...

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…

Taking advantage of the fact that international attention is focused on Ukraine and the Middle East, Russia continues to expand its influence in various parts of Africa. Taking advantage of the strategic vacuum following the withdrawal of European countries, and through security alliances and military presence, Moscow is redefining regional balance in the Sahel and West Africa, turning the continent into a new scenario where global powers compet…