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 African Union should be invited to the Libya conference in Berlin to make it truly inclusive, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the Mediterranean Dialogues forum in Rome on 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

Germany's incoming Social Democratic (SPD) co-leader Norbert Walter-Borjans struck a pacifist note during the party congress in Berlin on Friday, saying the SPD did not support raising defense spending to 2 percent of the gross domestic product

Incoming Social Democratic co-leader Saskia Esken said Friday she did not have much trust in Germany's governing coalition but would give Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives a chance