Senior Russian diplomat Maria Zakharova has termed the EU sanctions against her country a true irony.

EghtesadOnline: Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov would meet his U.S. counterpart John Kerry in Peru this week, foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a news briefing on Thursday.

EghtesadOnline: The United States’ actions aimed at preventing the implementation of the 2015 nuclear deal are a source of concern for all parties to the agreement, a senior Russian diplomat said.

EghtesadOnline: Russia said on Friday that too many American spies operated in Moscow under diplomatic cover and said it might expel some of them to retaliate against the United States over Washington's expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats last year.

EghtesadOnline: Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova in a weekly press conference has voiced Moscow readiness to have good cooperation with Tehran after Iran's presidential elections, slated for May 19.