Russia

MOSCOW, March 12. /TASS/: Russia is ready for holding negotiations with Turkey on the possible delivery of Su-35 and Su-57 fighter aircraft, if it receives the corresponding request, Spokesperson for Russia’s Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation Valeria Reshetnikova said on Friday.

MOSCOW, March 12. /TASS/: Moscow is keeping a close eye on developments in Myanmar and is analyzing the situation, including from the viewpoint of the continuation of military-technical cooperation, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday.

"We evaluate the situation as alarming, and we are concerned about the information about the growing number of civilian casualties coming from there. That gives us concern. We are keeping a close eye on what is going on there," he stressed.

MOSCOW, March 12. /TASS/: The 6th Eastern Economic Forum will be held on September 2-4, 2021, on the Far Eastern Federal University campus, the Roscongress Foundation said in a statement on Friday.

"I am confident that this year’s Forum will build on its investment capacity. Moreover, it will become an important platform for developing humanitarian ties in light of our cooperation with Asian countries in fighting COVID-19," Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation, Executive Secretary of the EEF Organizing Committee Anton Kobyakov was quoted as saying.

MOSCOW, March 12. /TASS/: The US and its allies plan a large-scale smear campaign aimed at discrediting Russian anti-Covid products amid rising demand for the Sputnik V vaccine, a high-level Kremlin source told TASS Friday.

"According to our intelligence agencies, the US and its allies intend to arrange a large-scale disinformation campaign, aimed at fueling a biased attitude against our scientific innovations in fighting the spread of coronavirus infections as demand grows for the Russian Sputnik V vaccine across the world, including in European countries," the source said.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday said Moscow would retaliate should the United States deploy ground-based missiles in Japan, the Interfax news agency reported.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Armenia’s defence ministry on Friday said military exercises involving 7,500 troops would be held in Armenia on March 16-20, the RIA news agency reported.

The ministry said the goal of the exercise was, among other things, to test the combat readiness of troops.

YEKATERINBURG, March 11. /TASS/: The crews of the latest ‘Terminator’ tank support combat vehicles and upgraded T-72B3M main battle tanks practiced inter-operability at a proving ground near Chelyabinsk, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Thursday.

The exercise was held as part of an experiment to learn to operate the latest ‘Terminator’ tank support combat vehicles in combat formations of the Central Military District’s Guards armored division, the press office specified.

MOSCOW, March 11. /TASS/: Two Tu-95MS strategic missile-carrying bombers made a scheduled flight over the Sea of Japan and the northwestern Pacific Ocean, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Thursday.

"Two Tu-95MS strategic missile-carrying bombers of long-range aviation performed a scheduled flight in the airspace over the neutral waters of the Sea of Japan and the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The crews of Su-35S fighters of Russia’s Aerospace Force escorted the bombers," the ministry said in a statement.

MOSCOW, March 11. /TASS/: Russia’s COVID-19 cases rose by 9,270 in the past day, reaching 4,360,823, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Thursday.

In relative terms, the growth rate reached 0.21%.

The lowest growth rates were registered in the past day in the Tuva Republic (0.04%), the Sakhalin Region (0.05%), the Magadan Region, the Republic of Adygeya (0.06%).

MOSCOW, March 11. /TASS/: A militant who plotted a terror attack was eliminated in a counter-terror operation in Makhachkala in the North Caucasian Republic of Dagestan, the National Anti-Terror Committee’s information center told TASS on Thursday.