The Morning Vertical, February 24, 2017
(World News Russia)

ON MY MIND He`s one of the longest-serving foreign ministers in the world. For more than a decade, he`s been the respectable face and silver-tongued voice of Vladimir Putin`s regime abroad. But after nearly 13 years as Russia`s top diplomat, Sergei Lavrov appears to be getting fed up. He`s visibly irritated. He`s been losing his cool in public and using some colorful language in the process. And perhaps most importantly, he appears to have been marginalized and excluded from the decision-making process in Moscow. But the story of the incredible shrinking foreign minister isn`t just about Lavrov. It`s about the downgrading of the Foreign Ministry as a whole, as well as the foreign policy...