Despite appearances, the Russian president does care about international image, writes Mary Dejevsky. It all depends on what Donald Trump has to offer ...

He was at the meeting in Moscow in 1973 between Douglas-Home and Andrei Gromyko, minister of foreign affairs of the USSR under Leonid Brezhnev. It was going to be a tense and politically tricky ...

He has been a minister for 20 years, the only person capable of rivaling Andreï Gromyko, his Soviet predecessor who was foreign minister for 28 years, from 1957 to 1985. Two teams will now be ...

In Paris the Russians launched a big diplomatic and propaganda drive this week. Andrei Gromyko had come to meet his Western opposite numbers, to see if they could agree on an agenda for a full ...

“We know that you are largely dependent on the help of American Jewry and that you must remain friendly with the U.S.,” Andrei Gromyko once told Sharett at Lake Success. “That we don’t ...

This was ill-judged brinkmanship, and the book contains little mention of the pressure that the Politburo, including Gorbachev’s friend Eduard Shevardnadze and his ageing foe Andrei Gromyko, ...

Others make bold to place Thabo Mbeki in the elite pantheon of all-time international diplomatic colossi like Lord Castlereigh, Prince Metternich, Prince Talleyrand, Otto von Bismarck, General Marshal ...

He interpreted for British ministers at meetings with Khrushchev and later with Andrei Gromyko, the inscrutable ‘Mr Nyet’ of Soviet foreign policy. And, as a sideshow from the Cold War, he was in the ...

A 30-day ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia would only benefit Kyiv’s forces, a top Kremlin aide has said, as US officials ...