The upcoming resignation of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is a rumor that does not deserve attention. This was stated on Friday by the deputy director of the Department of Information and Press of the Ministry Artem Kozhin. "We do not comment on rumors, because these are rumors," he stressed, "we will not spend time (on them)," the RIA Novosti news agency quotes the diplomat's response to a request to talk about the planned changes in the department. Earlier, the RTVI channel reported that Sergei Lavrov will leave his post shortly.. In the Kremlin this news was called false, and the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova was surprised by the imagination of journalists.