Russia says the United States and other NATO countries are deliberately turning Ukraine into a “powder keg” by increasing arms supplies to Kiev and inflaming tensions in the country’s volatile east.

Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says proposals like “JCPOA+” that seek to add irrelevant topics to the Iran nuclear deal are “wrong.”

Russia’s deputy foreign minister expresses pessimism about the improvement of ties between Moscow and Washington even after the assumption of power by President-elect Joe Biden.

Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov says Moscow is not afraid of US sanctions since the Kremlin is accustomed to this behavior.

Russia rejects a proposal by the United States to condition the extension of the New START arms control treaty on the freezing of Russian and US nuclear weapons at the current levels.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says Russia has no fear of US sanctions over defense cooperation with Iran.

President Trump proposed in May that the current format of the G7 is ‘outdated.’

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says Russia will keep objecting to the restoration of UNSC sanctions against Iran, emphasizing that the body should not turn into a 'toy' in the US hands.

Last year, Russia's president warned that nothing could hold back yet another arms race.

Iran has warned European parties to the 2015 nuclear deal that the path to diplomacy is getting narrower and more impassable every day.