Vassily Nebenzia, Permanent Representative of Russia at the United Nations, accused the United States and its allies of "hypocrisy" saying they call to uphold humanitarian law but hold back seeing "horrific destruction in Gaza".
Nikolay Nozdrev, a director in charge of Japan and other Asian countries at Russia's foreign ministry, is slated to become the next Russian ambassador to Japan, filling a post left vacant for a year amid sour bilateral relations, diplomatic sources say.
Russia desires improvement of relations between India and China and its ties with both the countries are "very wholesome", Russian Ambassador Denis Alipov said on Friday.