On 25 May 1939, Ribbentrop sent a secret message to Moscow to tell the Soviet Foreign Commissar, Vyacheslav Molotov, that if Germany attacked Poland " Russia's special interests would be taken into consideration ".

During the 2009 Malagasy political crisis, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Russia is " concerned by the increased frequency of attempts on the African continent to resort to non-constitutional methods of solving internal political problems.

Frustrated with continued German demands for cessions of territory, Leon Trotsky, Bolshevik People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs ( more or less Foreign Minister ), and head of the Russian delegation, on February 10, 1918, announced Russia's withdrawal from the negotiations and unilateral declaration of the ending of hostilities, a position summed up as " no war — no peace ".

In August 2008, he urged the UN Security Council to " take urgent action " and " condemn Russia's military assault on the sovereign state of Georgia ," in addition to stating that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had told Secretary of State Rice that Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili " must go.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sazonov's exact words to Bulgaria's new Prime Minister Danev were " Do not expect anything from us, and forget the existence of any of our agreements from 1902 until present.

On August 29, 2008, in response to Russia's recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Deputy Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze announced that Georgia had broken diplomatic relations with Russia.

In 2008, the American Carnegie Endowment's Foreign Policy magazine named Russia as " the worst place to be a terrorist " and highlighted especially Russia's willingness to prioritize national security over civil rights.

A tombstone to Rebane, unofficially erected in 2004 but unveiled before Pärnumaa District Parliamentarian and former Foreign Minister Trivimi Velliste, was protested by Russia's Chief Rabbi, Berl Lazar and the Russian Jewish Congress.

The Conference's ultimate decision ( Berlin Treaty ) was in favor of Russia's proposal, largely due to support from Andrássy and William Henry Waddington, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs.

On 7 December 2010 Russia's Foreign Ministry described the affair as " vaudeville based on a threadbare spy plot " being whipped up by the UK media, which could " only be regarded with pity ".

One of the Kadet leaders, Prince Lvov, became Prime Minister and Miliukov became Russia's Foreign Minister.

Fradkov has been the head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service since 2007.

Trotsky, who was by then Russia's People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs ( Foreign Minister ), called on the Romanian government of Ion I. C. Brătianu to hand in persons captured, indicating that he would otherwise encourage the communist activities of Romanian refugees on Russian soil, and receiving a reply according to which no such arrests had occurred.

The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service ( Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki or SVR ) is Russia's primary external intelligence agency.

On 5 July 1995, Yerin was assigned the position of deputy director of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service.

Following stints as Russia's ambassador in Vatican, Belgrade, Munich, Tokyo ( from 1899 ), and Copenhagen ( from 1903 ), he served as Imperial Foreign Minister between April 1906 and November 1910 and then as Russian ambassador to France.

On 11 April the Foreign Policy Committee decided that the question of Russia's potential as an ally should be referred to the Chiefs of Staff.

He has constantly involved himself in political and international affairs, Russia's support for Arab states and the Arab-Israeli conflict, such as when he spoke out against a 1991 state visit by Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh's visit to Israel:

* Statement by Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Regarding Suspension by RF of CFE Treaty

Its Foreign Ministry took steps to prevent his extradition to the U. S .; Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov suggested that Bout was innocent.

Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement rejecting Bout's sentence as " a political order " and criticizing the U. S. media's one-sided approach to the story.

In November 2010, DiCaprio donated $ 1, 000, 000 to the Wildlife Conservation Society at Russia's tiger summit, causing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to describe him as a " muzhik " or " real man ".

Perry conferred several times with Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev in an effort to allay Russia's worries about and secure its membership in the Partnership for Peace.

He was also the author of the October Manifesto of 1905, a precursor to Russia's first constitution, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers ( Prime Minister ) of the Russian Empire.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and U. S. President George H. W. Bush put pressure on Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to open up Russia's germ warfare facilities to a team of outside inspectors.

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks about the 2, 000, 000th truck produced by KamAZ, 2012.

Federal Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev met with General Vyacheslav Tikhomirov, the commander of Russia's Interior Ministry forces, and blamed them for the high number of deaths.

In the 1993 Duma elections, in the aftermath of the crisis, Gaidar was the leader of the pro-government bloc Russia's Choice and was seen by some as a possible future Prime Minister.

In September 1998, after Russia's 1998 financial crash brought down Sergei Kirienko government, Yavlinsky proposed the candidacy of Yevgeny Primakov who was elected Prime Minister in spite of resistance from Yeltsin, his family and entourage.

Russia's Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, was placed in charge of the investigation.

The Stolypin agrarian reforms were a series of changes to Imperial Russia's agricultural sector instituted during the tenure of Pyotr Stolypin, Chairman of the Council of Ministers ( Prime Minister ).

Vyacheslav Konstantinovich von Plehve ( Вячесла ́ в Константи ́ нович фон Пле ́ ве ), also Pléhve, or Pleve ( in Meshchovsk, Kaluga Guberniya – in St Petersburg ) was the director of Imperial Russia's police and later Minister of the Interior.

On November 14, Prime Minister Nodar Khashba, named by the relatives of Tamara Shakryl as responsible for her death and threatened by them, had to spend the night at Russia's Peacemaking Headquarters in Sukhumi.

Although eminently qualified, Komarov was not chosen in the top six candidates, because he did not meet the age, height and weight restrictions specified by the " Chief Designer " of Russia's space program: Sergei Korolev.

Sergei Golitsyn ( 1909 – 1989 ) wrote Memoirs of a Survivor: The Golitsyn Family in Stalin's Russia, a memoir of his experiences of the period from the start of the Revolution in 1917 to Russia's entry into World War II in 1941.

Russia's Chudov Monastery, founded at about the time of Jani Beg's fall by Metropolitan Aleksii and Sergei of Radonezh was built on land that, according to legend, the Khan had granted to Aleksii as thanks for the miraculous curing of his wife, Taidula, by the latter.

He served from 1983 – 1985 in a Soviet artillery regiment in Hungary, according to his official biography, or, as the former Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov claimed in a TV interview on 12 November 2006, in the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff ( GRU )< sup ></ sup >.

Russia's Sergei Polyakov finished second, with his countryman, defending champion Sergei Alifirenko third.

The team was led by Russia's Sergei Stolbun ; scoring ace Gennady Maslov ( current coach of Ak Bars-2 Kazan ), who enjoyed a short stint with the Soviet Wings and set a club record of 140 points in 76 games in 1982 – 83 ; and Ravil Shavaleev, who was regarded as one of the finest defenseman to ever come out of Tatarstan.

The party's ideology was built upon the philosophical foundation of Russia's narodnik-Populist movement of the 1860s-70s and its worldview developed primarily by Alexander Herzen and Pyotr Lavrov.

Prior to that, Lavrov was a Soviet diplomat and Russia's ambassador to the United Nations from 1994 to 2004.

Lavrov is regarded as continuing the style of his predecessor: a brilliant diplomat but a civil servant rather than a politician, Russia's foreign policy being largely determined by the President of the Russian Federation.

Lavrov used this journal to publicize his analysis of Russia's peculiar historical development.

" Lavrov recognized that Russia's historical development was significantly different from that of Western Europe, though he still maintained hope that Russia might join in the greater European socialist movement.

Lavrov rejected this outlook, believing it possible to create socialism by basing revolutionary tactics on Russia's individual history.