Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Washington has already made its final decision concerning the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, and that in less than two months the White House will formally withdraw from the 1987 treaty.

“With the withdrawal from the INF Treaty, which has not yet been stated officially, although the intention has been stated, and in the negotiations in Moscow including the meeting between President Putin and John Bolton, it became clear that …

The participants of the Istanbul summit on Syrian settlement did not discuss who would take over the post of the current Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, said Russian president Vladimir Putin at the press conference after the summit.

"We didn't discuss any personalities, of course," the Russian president said. He noted that such discussions are "counterproductive" if there is a desire to "achieve a positive result at the end of the journey".

At the same time, French President Emmanuel Macron …

The U.S. is "preparing a war," said the deputy head of the Department of Nonproliferation and Arms Control of the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei Belousov at the UN General Assembly.

According to him, Washington recently accused Russia of preparing a war. But, as Belousov stressed, Russian citizens are preparing to defend their homeland, its territorial integrity, its principles and people.

Moscow and the United States have significant differences in this matter, he noted, including "in the …