Russia

MOSCOW, September 30. /TASS/: The international community has shown rare unity on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an interview with TASS on Wednesday.

"Although the international community rarely manages to unite, but this time, to their credit, the heads of international organizations, the heads of state, politicians and public figures echo one another, in a good way," she pointed out.

MOSCOW, Sept 30 (NNN-TASS) – Russian President, Vladimir Putin, expressed concern over the conflicts in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, during a phone call with Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, the Kremlin said in a statement.

“Discussion of the situation in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone was continued,” it said.

During the conversation, Putin expressed serious concern over the ongoing hostilities, underlining the urgent need for the opposing parties to stop the fight, and take measures to de-escalate the crisis.

YALTA, September 29. /TASS/: Most products from Ukraine have already been replaced by domestic ones, the same is true for NATO countries' goods, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told journalists Tuesday.

"As far as I understand, we are past all key stages as well as dependency on Ukrainian producers, meaning we have replaced all main solutions by domestic developments. As for replacement of NATO countries’ products, the key positions are secured," Borisov said.

MOSCOW, September 29. /TASS/: The Kremlin is certain that statements of possible military support for Azerbaijan and Armenia in light of the recent escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh only add fuel to the fire, while the parties should be persuaded to return to political and diplomatic ways to reach settlement, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Tuesday.

MOSCOW, September 29. /TASS/: Gazprom expects that Turkey's purchases of Russian gas will increase by the end of 2020, Head of Contract Structuring & Price Formation Directorate at Gazprom Export Sergey Komlev said on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, September 29. /TASS/: Engineering and development work for an upgraded configuration of the combat helicopter Ka-52M will be completed in 2022, the CEO of the holding company Helicopters of Russia, (an affiliate of Rostec), Andrei Boginsky, told TASS.

"Currently, research and development is in progress in accordance with the terms of reference. The project will be finalized in 2022," he said.

MOSCOW, September 29. /TASS/: Inoculation against the coronavirus is the step that allows to decrease the level of measures of Russian President’s epidemiologic protection, the Russian leader has already declared his intent to get vaccinated, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists.

"There are, of course, special precautions when it concerns the head of state. He has stated already that he is thinking about the vaccine," the spokesman said. He added that "in order to decrease the level of epidemiologic precaution measures, it is necessary to get inoculated."

MOSCOW, September 28. /TASS/: Armenia is ready to request additional military assistance from Russia but sees no reason to do it at the moment, Armenian Ambassador to Moscow Vardan Toganyan told the Govorit Moskva radio station on Monday.

According to him, Yerevan and Moscow continue to boost defense cooperation. "We believe that should the need arise, we will request Russia [for additional military assistance]," the envoy pointed out. "As of today, we don’t think that we need additional troops or other forces," he added.

SOCHI, September 28./TASS/: Russia never meddles in internal affairs of the neighboring countries and it always supports their authorities in efforts to stabilize the situation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said as he met with President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbay Jeenbekov on Monday.

MOSCOW, September 28. /TASS/: Coordinating the international rules of responsible behavior by countries in the cyberspace is becoming an ever more vital task. Such a set of rules is to establish the equal rights of all countries to participation in governing the Internet, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an article for External Economic Relations magazine.