The next Astana format meeting on the crisis in Syria will be held in Sochi on July 30-31, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said Friday. “It will be held in the last two days of July, that has essentially been agreed, and in the format that we used before, ...
Russia considers the decision to expand the mandate of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) illegitimate, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. “As a result of political manipulation, as well as, as has become known, the direct bribery of a number of delegations and outright blackmail, ...