There is a still a risk that oil producers pump out too much crude and prices fall sharply, Russia’s energy minister said on Monday, suggesting Moscow might support an extension of output cuts at a meeting of leading oil producing countries next month.

• Date: 10.06.2019  |  Published on EGF: 10.06.2019  |  External Relations

Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said Russia was the only remaining oil exporter still undecided on the need to extend the global output deal between OPEC and its allies until the end of the year, TASS news agency reported on Monday.

• Date: 10.06.2019  |  Published on EGF: 10.06.2019  |  External Relations

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he discussed concerns about interference in upcoming U.S. elections with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday and told him interference was “not appropriate.”

• Date: 13.05.2019  |  Published on EGF: 13.05.2019  |  External Relations

Mike Pompeo will make his first trip to Russia as U.S. secretary of state next week for talks with President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on “aggressive and destabilizing actions” Moscow has taken around the world, a senior State Department official said on Friday.

• Date: 13.05.2019  |  Published on EGF: 13.05.2019  |  External Relations

Russian authorities blocked a regional news website over the weekend over a report about graffiti insulting Vladimir Putin, its chief editor said, under a new ban on insulting officials online.

• Date: 15.04.2019  |  Published on EGF: 15.04.2019  |  External Relations

The U.S. administration and Turkey should explain to the U.S. Congress why Ankara had to purchase the S-400 missile system from Russia, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday.

• Date: 03.04.2019  |  Published on EGF: 03.04.2019  |  External Relations

A comedian with no political experience raced ahead in Ukraine’s presidential election on Sunday, offering a fresh face to voters fed up with entrenched corruption in a country on the frontline of the West’s standoff with Russia.

• Date: 01.04.2019  |  Published on EGF: 01.04.2019  |  External Relations

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s conclusion that U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign did not collude with Russia in the 2016 election is a serious blow to Democrats who had hoped Mueller’s report would boost their own wide-ranging probes into Trump’s business dealings.

• Date: 25.03.2019  |  Published on EGF: 25.03.2019  |  External Relations