Interstate relations

On Monday, the Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the Japanese ambassador to Russia Toyohisa Kozuki to protest against Tokyo's unfriendly steps in the context of Japan's territorial claims to Russia.

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov spoke about the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to return Crimea to Ukraine on the official website of the Games-2020.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow will seek from WADA a universal approach to all countries in the fight against doping.

The Russian Federation has never used the issue of gas transit and the supply of energy resources as a weapon and does not intend to do so, said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

The violent seizure of power in Kiev escalated into nationalist terror, a war in southeastern Ukraine with thousands of civilians killed, according to a press release from the Russian Prosecutor General's Office.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that Russia remains the main partner for Minsk.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova expressed condolences to the Germans over the unprecedented flood, which resulted in hundreds of human victims and many destruction.

After the meeting between the presidents of the Russian Federation and Belarus, instructions were given to the government to work out issues of support for Minsk against the backdrop of stifling Western sanctions.

Presidents of the Russian Federation and Belarus Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko will hold a working meeting in St. Petersburg on Tuesday.

According to Plenipotentiary Vladimir Ustinov, Ukraine deliberately creates conditions for the deterioration of the environmental situation in Crimea.

A member of the Federation Council commented on Clement Bone's call not to recognize Russian and Chinese vaccines against coronavirus in Europe.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov commented on the calls of some politicians not to respond to NATO actions near Crimea.

This means that the Belarusian people now have an official representation in the EU countries.

According to the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Lukashenko's statements «about the smuggling of weapons from Ukraine to Belarus» will not pass any fact-checking.

This is reported by Delfi with reference to the Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite.