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By Rhod Mackenzie

The Russian component of the grain agreement stands at zero, and despite UN attempts to restart negotiations, there has been no progress, this was stated by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during an ambassadorial round table on a Ukraine settlement held on Wednesday, 8...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Russia has submitted a draft statement to the UN Security Council regarding the terrorist attack on Nord Stream. Dmitry Polyansky, the First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations, made this announcement. The statement stresses that the acts of terrorism...

By Rhod Mackenzie

At the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) countries, the national coordinators were instructed to speed up the preparation of concrete proposals to improve the association's activities in line with modern realities. This is...

By Evgeny Pozdnyakov

The United States will insist that the UN Security Council only include states that share its pro-Western views. Russia, on the other hand, wants to see representatives of the world's majority in the organisation. The reaching of a consensus will not be easy. The political sci...