Russia still open to contacts with West on Ukraine - Foreign Ministry
MOSCOW. March 21 (Interfax) - Russia is still prepared to hold negotiations with the West concerning the situation in Ukraine, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said.
"We will not cease trying to explain our position, look for diplomatic ways of the crisis and seek to resolve issues as partners," he said in the Federation Council, the upper chamber of Russia's parliament, on Friday.