The British-born wife of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad does not want a divorce, a Kremlin spokesman said.
Turkish media reports suggested Asma al-Assad wanted to end her marriage and leave Russia, where she and her husband were granted asylum after a rebel coalition toppled the former president's regime and took control of Damascus.
Asked about the reports at a press conference, Dmitry Peskov said: “No, they do not correspond to reality.”
He also denied reports that Assad was confined in Moscow and that his assets were frozen.
Russia has been a staunch ally of the Assad regime and offered it military support during the civil war.
But Turkish media reports on Sunday suggested the Assads were living under strict restrictions in the Russian capital and that Syria's former first lady had filed for divorce and wanted to return to London.
Ms Assad has dual Syrian-British citizenship, but the UK Foreign Secretary previously said she would not be allowed to return to Britain.
Speaking in Parliament earlier this month, David Lammy said: “I want it confirmed that she is a sanctioned person and is not welcome here in the UK.”
He added that he would do “everything in his power” to ensure that no member of the Assad family “finds a place in the UK”.
In a statement attributed to Bashar al-Assad last week, he said he never intended to flee Syria but was transferred from a Russian military base at the request of Moscow.
Asma al-Assad, 49, was born in the UK to Syrian parents in 1975. and grew up in Acton, west London.
She moved to Syria in 2000. at the age of 25 and married her husband just months after he succeeded his father as president.
During her 24 years as first lady of Syria, Ms. Assad has been the object of curiosity in the Western media.
Controversial 2011 Vogue profile called her a “desert rose” and described her as “the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies.” The article has since been removed from the Vogue website.
Just a month later, Mrs Assad was criticized for remaining silent as her husband fiercely cracked down on pro-democracy activists at the start of the Syrian civil war.
The conflict went on to claim the lives of an estimated half a million people, with her husband accused of using chemical weapons against civilians.
In 2016 Ms Assad told Russian-backed state television that she rejected a deal that would have offered her safe passage from the war-torn nation to stand by her husband.
She announced that she was treated for breast cancer in 2018 and said she had made a full recovery a year later.
She was diagnosed with leukemia and began treatment for the disease in May this year, the office of then-President Assad said.
A statement said she would “temporarily step back” from public engagements.