The Russian Foreign Ministry said after a meeting of Iran nuclear deal stakeholders in Vienna on Friday that only the United States' aggressive stance prevented the pact from regaining its "intrinsic balance."

The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine will hopefully come up with new arrangements at their Paris summit on how to enhance security and human rights in Donbas, the Russian foreign minister said Friday

The quadrilateral meeting on Syria in Istanbul in February, proposed by the Turkish president, will try to bring together the members of the Small Group and Astana guarantors, Dima Moussa, vice-president of the opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC) and a Syrian constitutional committee member, told Sputnik

The latest meeting of the Joint Commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) has demonstrated that all remaining signatories are united in their commitment to the nuclear deal, Russian Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov said on Friday

The French Ministry for the Economy and Finance deleted on Friday a tweet containing recommendations on how to choose and store champagne after it sparked outrage and was deemed inappropriate for being published on the day of a mass strike

Moscow is set for serious work within the framework of the Normandy format talks between the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany, and it expects the upcoming meeting to help crisis settlement in Ukraine, preserving the Minsk accords, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov did not comment on media reports about the alleged proposal by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to form a "municipal guard" of representatives of Ukraine, the OSCE and self-proclaimed republics in Donbas areas not controlled by Kiev

China is urging the United States to stop its maximum pressure campaign on Iran, as well as sanctions and threats of troop deployments, and calls on Washington to find a diplomatic solution in order to reduce tensions in the Persian Gulf, a spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Friday