Published on 4/25/2026
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States of seeking to control global energy markets, criticizing its abandonment of recognized international relations and “dealing arrogantly” with Latin American and Middle Eastern countries.
In an interview broadcast on Russian state television yesterday, Friday, Lavrov said that Washington “is returning us to a world in which there are none” of the rules of international relations, noting that the United States is governed by the doctrine of hegemony in global energy markets.
Lavrov stressed that Washington “only cares about its own interest and is ready to defend that interest by any means, whether it is coups, kidnappings, or assassinations of leaders of countries that possess natural resources that Americans need.”
Live examples
As an example of this, Lavrov touched on the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 3, and the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in American-Israeli raids on February 28.
Washington was able to tighten its grip on the Venezuelan oil sector, while the American-Israeli war on Iran caused a global energy crisis, amid fears of supply disruption and rising prices.
Lavrov also accused Washington of urging European countries to abandon the Nord Stream pipeline that transports Russian gas to Germany, and of supporting European Union demands to discourage Hungary and Slovakia from buying Russian gas.
“This is not a way to deal with international relations. It is an attempt to return to the colonial era,” Lavrov said, criticizing at the same time European policy, which he described as driven by “arrogance and contempt for others.”
“Even as it seeks a settlement to the four-year war with Ukraine, the United States is touting the benefits of enormous economic opportunity,” he said.
G20 summit
On the other hand, the Kremlin said – yesterday, Friday – that Russian President Vladimir Putin may go to the G20 summit, which will be held in Miami, United States, next December.
This came after statements by US President Donald Trump in which he pointed out the importance of Putin’s attendance at the summit. He criticized Moscow’s suspension of membership in the G8 in 2014 after Russia annexed the Ukrainian Crimean Peninsula to its territory.
In the same context, an informed American official said – yesterday, Friday – that the United States extended an invitation to Russia to attend the annual meeting of the Group of Twenty, which is hosted by the city of Miami, adding that Moscow “accepted the invitation.”
Putin has not attended the G20 summit since 2019 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and then because of the Russian war on Ukraine in 2022, which sparked the largest crisis in relations between Moscow and Western countries since the height of the Cold War.
