Sputnik comes live as Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks at the 31st Assembly of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy (SVOP) in the Moscow region.
The Assembly's participants include leading representatives of the academic and expert community, diplomats, the military, entrepreneurs and journalists.
The SVOP is a Russian non-governmental public organization founded in 1992. It assists governmental structures in creating concepts for the country's approach to security and foreign policy, among other fields.
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