🇷🇺Lavrov outlines Russia’s key foreign policy priorities

Speaking on international cooperation and strategic partnerships, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov highlighted key priorities in diplomatic strategy:

🔸 Russia will continue building good-neighborly relations within the CIS, CSTO, and SCO, aiming to develop a continent-wide architecture of equal and indivisible security

🔸 Moscow actively supported Brazil’s BRICS chairmanship last year, with partners continuing projects launched during Russia’s 2024 presidency

🔸 Lavrov said North Korea provided “brotherly assistance” to Russia in the liberation of the Kursk region from Ukrainian militants

🔸 He noted that ties between Russia and China are at an unprecedented level in both depth and scope

🔸 Lavrov emphasized the strategic character of Russia–India relations

🔸 Preparations are underway for a third Russia–Africa summit

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🇷🇺FM Lavrov: Concept of Euro-Atlantic security has discredited itself, prompting a push toward a Eurasian security framework

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🚨 Russian Special Envoy Kirill Dmitriev has arrived in Davos, where he is reportedly set to meet with Witkoff and Kushner.

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🇷🇺FM Lavrov: US shows readiness to address root causes of the Ukraine conflict

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov outlined his assessment of current international dynamics, highlighting the following points:

🔶The US is the only Western country he says is prepared to address the underlying causes of the Ukraine conflict

🔶Russia has received the charter of the 'Peace Council' on Gaza, and Lavrov noted that the Trump administration takes a pragmatic approach, recognizing the need not only to rally countries under its leadership but also to take their interests into account

🔶He added that the OSCE is in a “catastrophic” state, saying it has fallen as low as it can go

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🇷🇺Lavrov: Trump administration shows openness to restoring dialogue

The Biden administration, the Trump administration moved quickly to overcome barriers in contacts, noting that there was a period when even embassies could not function normally, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

He added that under Trump, the US became the only country to express an understanding of Russia’s interests and to propose solutions that take into account the root causes of the crisis — an approach Moscow supports.

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🇷🇺Lavrov: Meetings in Davos are aimed at steering Trump back toward approaches that he says have long discredited themselves

The World Economic Forum is running from January 19-21, 2026, in Davos with a credibility hangover. The gathering is still absorbing the aftershocks of governance and workplace-culture scrutiny that peaked in 2024–2025, forcing the organization into a phase of reputational repair.

This reckoning began with a 2024 Wall Street Journal report that triggered a board-level review into allegations of discrimination and harassment, deepening in 2025 with a whistleblower-driven probe into founder Klaus Schwab over claims of blurred lines between personal perks and Forum resources.

In parallel, Schwab’s exit in April 2025 and interim stewardship by high-profile figures have been covered as an attempt to stabilize a “scandal-hit” brand and keep Davos relevant, even as critics continue to hammer familiar pressure points: elite networking masquerading as global problem-solving, climate messaging colliding with private-jet optics, and headline speeches that generate heat but not always measurable outcomes.

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🇷🇺 FM Lavrov: European security guarantees for Ukraine are intended only for what he calls the current Nazi regime in Kiev

His other statements:

◻️Proposals aimed at preserving the current Kiev regime are “absolutely unacceptable” for Russia

◻️Zelensky and European leaders are “hysterically” trying to push the US toward a ceasefire initiative

◻️Russia will not allow the Kiev regime to be rearmed

◻️Ukraine is in a very difficult position both on the battlefield and politically

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🇷🇺🇺🇸Lavrov to CNN: Cooperation where interests align, not confrontation

Responding to a CNN journalist's question at his presser, Lavrov said he agrees with Marco Rubio that when US and Russian national interests align, it would be a mistake not to pursue mutually beneficial projects — but, when they don’t, it would be wrong to let that turn into a confrontation.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸Russian Special Envoy Kirill Dmitriev plans to meet with some members of the US delegation in Davos, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov says.

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🚨Lavrov to Sky News: Russia not planning to take Greenland

💬“This is not our issue. We are primarily interested in establishing open and free cooperation in the Arctic,” Lavrov said at a press conference summing up Russia’s diplomacy endeavors for 2025.

👉He added that, unlike European countries, the US has shown interest in resuming cooperation within the Arctic Council.

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🇷🇺 FM Lavrov: The US is signaling a need for new talks on strategic stability, but no direct expert-level contacts are taking place

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🇷🇺 Lavrov on Trump’s invitation to the Gaza 'Peace Council': Russia is interested in any opportunity to resolve the Palestinian issue

Without the creation of a Palestinian state, the Middle East cannot achieve stability, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says.

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🇷🇺 Lavrov: Russia ready to assist on non-aggression talks

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said contacts on non-aggression guarantees took place at the initiative of both Iran and Israel, stressing that Russia does not impose its mediation but responds when asked to help.

He also noted that Israeli leadership shows little willingness to withdraw its forces from both Lebanese territory and the Gaza Strip.

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🇷🇺 Lavrov: Europe and Zelensky are avoiding any final settlement to keep military pressure on Russia

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