MOSCOW, March 25. /TASS/. Moscow is ready for dialogue with the United States in various areas, including sports, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. "We are in favor of negotiations in all areas. We are both 'for hockey' and 'for soccer.’ These are not just games, by the way, but what people want," the top Russian diplomat said in an interview with Channel One. Lavrov pointed out that Russian and American athletes are not so different in their views. "In sports, the overwhelming majority of Russian and American athletes, as well as athletes of any other country, including Western ones, consider it absolutely abnormal that Russian and Belarusian athletes have been suspended, as well as how a man calling himself a woman is allowed to beat a real woman in a boxing match," the top Russian diplomat said. During a phone conversation on March 18, US President Donald Trump supported his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin's proposal to organize hockey games between Russian and American players from the NHL and KHL.