The Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will hold dialogues with German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier on may 7 in Volgograd. The foreign Minister will discuss topical issues of bilateral relations and will lay wreaths on the Mamaev hill. The 7th of may, a one-day working visit to the city-hero Volgograd will be Minister of foreign Affairs of Germany. The German Minister will arrive to honor the memory of the fallen in the battle against fascism in the Second world war. Besides the laying of wreaths on Mamaev hill, where there is a historical memorial complex " to the Heroes of Stalingrad battle ", he also together with Lavrov will visit military-the memorial to Soviet soldiers in the village of Rossoshkas located there and also the burial place of the German soldiers. Official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich said that Moscow hopes for a thorough dialogue of Ministers. "We'd love to have Mr. Steinmeier in Volgograd for extensive negotiations in this historic place. I hope that this meeting will enable us not only to spice up our bilateral dialogue, but also possible to open the horizons of cooperation on key international and regional problems, " he said. yesterday Lavrov said that the long-term downturn in relations between Russia and Germany would have negative consequences not only for those pairs of countries, but for the whole of the Euro-Atlantic region. according to his statement, of particular concern is the danger of a new "exclusion" of citizens of Russia and the Germans. Lavrov is convinced that " when the good will of the General's actions under the power to reverse the current unfavorable trend and get back to work on the further development of equal and mutually beneficial partnership." "Open to any reasonable initiatives from the German side, aimed at improving the situation," the Minister added. at the same time, Lavrov has summed up that in Berlin, using as pretext the internal Ukrainian crisis, went to the curtailment of major bilateral cooperation mechanisms, suspended the implementation of a number of significant joint projects and areas of cooperation. "for the first time for most of the years documented the decline in turnover on Russian data, 6, 5% to 70, 1 billion dollars ", - noticed the head of the Russian Ministry of foreign Affairs. Relations between Russia and the West deteriorated in connection with the situation in Ukraine, where from April 2014 continuing military confrontation between the Kiev authorities and Eastern regions of the country, which require from the centre of additional powers. in July of last year the EU and the US from point penalties against private individuals and organizations have moved to the measures against entire sectors of Russia's economy. In response, Russia restricted imports of food items from countries that have entered against her punishment. Moscow has stated many times that is not a party to domestic conflict and is interested in its early peaceful settlement. Imposed by the West punishments of the Russian Federation considers illegal and unjustified.