The Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday that Moscow has remarked a decline in the violence level in Syria despite continuous violations of an agreed cease-fire. "The situation in Syria is very tense, but we do not intend to put it in a dramatic frame; even though the commitment to the ceasefire remains incomplete, the level of violence has considerably toned down," Russian news agency Novosti quoted the Foreign Ministry's spokesperson, Alexandre Loukachevitch, as saying. "Some powers are not satisfied with the decrease in violence," he said, noting dramatic expectations about the failure of the mission of UN-Arab peace envoy, Kofi Annan.