Russia Quotes by Sergei Lavrov

Russia has been entirely proportionate in its military response to Georgia's attack on Russian citizens and peacekeepers.

— Sergei Lavrov

Russia probably knows the true cost of revolutions better than most other countries.

— Sergei Lavrov

Russian citizens being attacked is an attack against the Russian Federation.

— Sergei Lavrov

We have absolutely no intention of, or interest in, crossing Ukraine's borders.

— Sergei Lavrov

Russia is doing all it can to promote early stabilisation in Ukraine.

— Sergei Lavrov

NATO cannot accept that the unconstitutional coup in Ukraine has not led to the subjugation of the whole Ukrainian nation.

— Sergei Lavrov

Frankly speaking, we don't see any other way for the steady development of the Ukrainian state apart from as a federation.

— Sergei Lavrov

Crimea was not a non-nuclear zone in an international law sense but was part of Ukraine, a state which doesn't possess nuclear…

— Sergei Lavrov

If our interests - our legitimate interests, the interests of Russians - have been attacked directly, like they were in South Ossetia,…

— Sergei Lavrov

Hours before the Georgian invasion, Russia had been working to secure a United Nations Security Council statement calling for a renunciation of…

— Sergei Lavrov

Russia would prefer to rebuild trust rather than allow it to further corrode. That's why, in July 2007, President Putin, in the…

— Sergei Lavrov

When the Georgian army started this assault against the sleeping city of Tskhinvali, the Georgian peacekeepers, serving in one contingent with their…

— Sergei Lavrov

We believe Russian-American relations are broader and larger than emotions and mutual grudges, including the situation with the U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden.

— Sergei Lavrov

For years, we have been asking the E.U. to create something similar to the Russia-NATO council. Not in order to simply exchange…

— Sergei Lavrov

The E.U.'s Eastern Partnership programme is designed to bind the so-called focus states tightly to itself, shutting down the possibility of co-operation…

— Sergei Lavrov

Our stand is crystal-clear - we want peace in Ukraine, which can only be attained through broad national dialogue in which all…

— Sergei Lavrov

I wouldn't even go into the history of the last days of the Soviet Union, the withdrawal from Europe, and what promises…

— Sergei Lavrov

Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever.

— Sergei Lavrov

With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way.

— Sergei Lavrov

Russia has every reason to dispose of its nuclear arsenal... to suit its interests and international legal obligations.

— Sergei Lavrov

NATO has a special relationship with countries far away from Europe: Australia, Japan, South Korea. They have joint projects and programmes which…

— Sergei Lavrov

We have been protecting the lives of the Russian peacekeepers who had been attacked by their Georgian comrades, because there was a…

— Sergei Lavrov

We still believe that if the Russian Federation and the United States bring their minds together, we can develop a common system…

— Sergei Lavrov

We are certain that Ukraine needs profound constitutional reform. In all fairness, we can't see any other way to ensure the stable…

— Sergei Lavrov

Russia has done more than any other country to support the independent Ukrainian state, including for many years subsidising its economy through…

— Sergei Lavrov