The Russian foreign ministry website said the move would have "a most adverse impact" on peace.
The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed its "growing concern" over political tension in Macedonia following the riots.
Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said an official statement would be issued soon.
The Russian Foreign Ministry also sent a representative to the Middle East on Sunday.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said it had summoned U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul for an explanation.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said it had summoned U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul for an explanation.
"I want to repeat that there will probably be no surprises, " said another Russian Foreign Ministry official.
The Arab League decision met with a strongly worded response from Russian foreign ministry spokesman Aleksandr Lukashevich.
"Only experts can determine whether Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, " said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko.
For the Russian foreign ministry at the time, this was a human-rights embarrassment.
But the Russians say the agreement is clearly aimed at them, a highly placed source in the Russian Foreign Ministry told CNN.
He has been declared "persona non grata" for what the Russian foreign ministry called "provocative actions in the spirit of the Cold War".
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on its website before the Clinton-Lavrov meeting that Syrians should handle the future of their country by themselves.
More recently the Russian foreign ministry has drawn up its own blacklist of US officials who are alleged to have committed human rights violations.
On Friday, the Russian Foreign Ministry denied any four-party meeting reports though the U.N. confirmed one was most definitely in the cards this weekend.
"The operations of the Russian Federation's Consulate General in Aleppo have been suspended, " the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement, the news agency reported.
The boy was born on January 9, 2010, and died on January 21, 2013, said Konstantin Dolgov, the Russian Foreign Ministry's special representative for human rights.
"The decisions taken in Rome... directly encourage extremists towards precisely a violent seizure of power, despite the suffering of ordinary Syrians, " Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Aleksandr Lukashevich said.
However, in Moscow, Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich described the attack as an attempt to destabilise the situation in Abkhazia before parliamentary elections there on 10 March.
"Russia sees such extraterritorial measures as unacceptable and against international law, " said a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry, issued a day after the new sanctions were announced.
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Assad's proposals "affirmed the readiness for the launch of an inter-Syrian dialogue and for reforming the country on the basis of Syrian sovereignty", the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Both men "expressed conviction that providing humanitarian aid to Syrians in need is an absolute priority at the current stage, " a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry recounted.
" Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko explained that this alliance is only natural as "Moscow, New Delhi and Beijing have common positions on many issues and support a multi-polar world order system.
The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed that President Dmitry Medvedev has agreed to sign the document but added that it was not clear whether it has been amended since Russia made the commitment to sign.
"I would like to draw your attention to another case of inhuman abuse of a Russian child by US adoptive parents, " Konstantin Dolgov, the Russian Foreign Ministry's special representative for human rights, said in a statement.
" Just months prior, while referring to Chavez's late July visit to Russia, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin expressed similar sentiments emanating from the Kremlin as he told the Moscow-based news agency Interfax that the "two countries' positions on most international issues are similar or identical.
"In our talks with Brahimi and with our American colleagues, we are trying to feel a way out of this situation on the basis of our common plan of action that was agreed on in Geneva in June, " Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said, according to state-run RIA Novosti.
Vladimir Arkhipov, the Russian foreign-trade ministry's representative in Primorsky Krai's free economic zone of Nakhodka wonders why Russians should tend to anything but their own development problems, such as those at Vostochny port.
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The series of photos also included an image of what appeared to be Mr. Fogle's U.S. Embassy identification card and another of his official Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs diplomatic card.
Japan's foreign ministry said two Russian Su-27s violated airspace for just over a minute Thursday near its northernmost main island of Hokkaido, and that Japan then scrambled four F-2 fighter jets.
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