(VOVworld) - Russia denounced as "falsifications and fabrications" media reports that it was changing its stance on the war in Syria or on the future of President Bashar al-Assad, said the Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday. The ministry's spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement that Russia consistently and determinedly supports the strict implementation of the Geneva communiqué on Syria adopted on June 30, 2012, adhering to the norms and principles of the international law and respecting the sovereignty of other states. She added that Russia does not practice social engineering, does not appoint or dismiss foreign presidents, by its own will or in agreement with somebody else. She stressed it concerns Syria and other states in the region, which are able to decide their future by themselves.