Permanent Delegation of the Russian Federation to UNESCO

December, 2020

Main Foreign Policy Results in 2020

30 December 2020

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with TASS News Agency, December 30, 2020

30 December 2020

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency, December 29, 2020

30 December 2020

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at the Dialogue for the Future Forum, Moscow, December 25, 2020

25 December 2020

Vladimir Putin’s annual news conference

17 December 2020

Report of the MFA of the Russian Federation on The Human Rights Situation in Ukraine published

15 December 2020

Artificial intelligence conference

4 December 2020

Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on criminal charges against Russian-speaking journalists in Latvia

3 December 2020

November, 2020

Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s telephone conversation with UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay

20 November 2020

The article “UNESCO: Humanitarian Horizons” by Chairman of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, November 16, 2020

17 November 2020

Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, November 13, 2020: Lithuanian authorities’ decision to suspend RTR Planeta broadcasting

13 November 2020

Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, November 13, 2020: documentary content removal by YouTube

13 November 2020

Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, November 13, 2020: Professor Valery Gromov was forced to resign from the Dnepr University of Technology

13 November 2020

August, 2020

International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2020" will be held in Russia from 23 till 29 of August 2020

14 August 2020

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Argumenty i Fakty newspaper, Moscow, August 12, 2020

13 August 2020

Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the situation around the TikTok social media app’s operation in the US

8 August 2020

Comment by the Information and Press Department on Twitter and Facebook labelling accounts

7 August 2020

July, 2020

Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the blocking of Tsargrad TV Channel on Google services

28 July 2020

Comment by the Information and Press Department regarding an attack on Russian journalists in the United States

22 July 2020

Report of the MFA of the Russian Federation on The Human Rights Situation in Ukraine

16 July 2020

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova: the blocking of RT Group channels in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia

9 July 2020

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova: the Venice Commission on education in Latvia

9 July 2020

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a meeting with the foreign ministers of the African Union troika (South Africa, Egypt and the DRC) held via videoconference, Moscow, July 8, 2020

8 July 2020

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions at a news conference following political consultations between the foreign ministers of Russia and three African Union countries

8 July 2020

Joint statement following talks between the Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation and the foreign ministers of three members of the African Union

8 July 2020

Press release on political consultations with the foreign minister of Russia, and three African Union chairs, South Africa, Egypt and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

8 July 2020

Remarks by Head of the Russian delegation and Permanent Delegate of the Russian Federation to UNESCO Alexander Kuznetsov at the 209th session of the UNESCO Executive Board, Paris, July 3, 2020

photo © UNESCO/Christelle ALIX - © UNESCO/Cyril BAILLEUL

7 July 2020

June, 2020

Press release on the opening of the 209th session of the UNESCO Executive Board

30 June 2020

75th Anniversary of the Great Victory: Shared Responsibility to History and our Future, by Vladimir Putin

19 June 2020

UNESCO Secretariat's greetings to the Day of Russia

12 June 2020

Remarks by the Permanent Delegate of the Russian Federation to UNESCO Alexander Kuznetsov at the 6th Special Session of the UNESCO Executive Board

Photo © UNESCO/Christelle ALIX & Cyril BAILLEUL

10 June 2020

Press release on the Foreign Ministry’s report on the glorification of Nazism and manifestations of neo-Nazism and racism

5 June 2020

Comment by the Information and Press Department on the US police attack on Nicole Roussell, a producer of the Russian Sputnik News Agency

3 June 2020

Comment by the Information and Press Department on the Minneapolis Police attack on Mikhail Turgiyev, RIA Novosti Correspondent

3 June 2020

Special Issue of International Affairs Journal on Russia's Chairmanship in BRICS

2 June 2020

May, 2020

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s article about the world amid the coronavirus pandemic for Chinese newspaper Global Times, Moscow, May 28, 2020

29 May 2020

Africa Day: Joint Efforts against Present-Day Challenges

25 May 2020

Spokesperson Maria Zakharova, Moscow, May 21, 2020: Latvia's violations of ethnic minorities' language and education rights

21 May 2020

Kiev’s Sanctions Against Crimean Cultural Sites Pointless - Russian Envoy to UNESCO

See the full version of interview

20 May 2020

Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova, Moscow, May 14, 2020: Western media’s anti-Russia allegations over coronavirus statistics

15 May 2020

Promotion and Protection of Family Values in CIS, Report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

15 May 2020

Statement by Alexander Kuznetsov, Ambassador, Permanent Delegate of the Russian Federation to UNESCO on the Day of Victory over nazism in the Great Patriotic and Second World War, 9 May, 2020

Distributed in the UNESCO Secretariat and among the Permanent Missions of Member States

9 May 2020

On the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the President laid flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden

9 May 2020

STALIN CHURCHILL ROOSEVELT The Common Struggle Against Fascism

7 May 2020

Press release on Russian cultural figures’ appeal to the world cultural community

7 May 2020

March, 2020

EAEU introduced new rules for transporting money across the border

20 March 2020

Press release on the establishment of the Artificial Intelligence Ethics Committee at the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

4 March 2020

February, 2020

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the High Level Segment of the 43rd Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council, Geneva, February 25, 2020

26 February 2020

Just published: The Report on Human Rights Situation in Certain Countries by MFA of Russia

19 February 2020

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions during the 56th Munich Security Conference, Global Disorder – Other Opportunities for a New Agenda, Munich, February 15, 2020

15 February 2020

January, 2020

Acting Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions at a news conference on Russia’s diplomatic performance in 2019 Moscow, January 17, 2020

17 January 2020

The President of Russia delivered the Address to the Federal Assembly

15 January 2020

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