Russia

TASS, June 19: India’s air forces are planning to order 21 Mig-29 supersonic fighter jets from Russia, the Economic Times newspaper reported Friday, citing military sources.

19 June 2020; MEMO: Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Wednesday refuted an Israeli media report claiming that in 2016 Russian President Vladimir Putin saved Israel from a potential UN Security Council resolution spearheaded by the administration of former US President Barack Obama that would have forced Israel to setup a Palestinian state based on the 1948 borders, Russia’s TASS news agency reported.

MOSCOW, June 18./TASS/: Talks between Palestine and Israel are possible only if Israel freezes the process to annex parts of the West Bank, Palestinian Ambassador to Russia Abdel Hafiz Nofal told an online conference on Thursday.

MOSCOW, June 18. /TASS/: The Russian embassy in London has been receiving threats for the past several weeks, Russian Ambassador to the UK Andrei Kelin said on Thursday in an open interview with TASS First Deputy Director General Mikhail Gusman.

MOSCOW, June 18. /TASS/: Negotiation process with the UK on restoration of air service is not underway at the moment, Russian Ambassador to the UK Andrey Kelin told TASS Thursday.

"There is no negotiation process on resumption of air service at this moment," he said.

According to the envoy, some 760 people were brought to Russia from London via repatriation flights.

MOSCOW, June 18. /TASS/: Rosatom State Corporation will continue to participate in a tender for the construction of Belene Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Bulgaria in partnership with Framatome SAS (France) and GE Steam Power (USA), Rosatom Central Europe reported on Thursday.

Rosatom, Framatome SAS, and GE Steam Power signed memoranda of understanding (MOUs) on the Belene NPP construction project to join forces to participate in the procedure for selecting a strategic investor for the plant’s construction.

MOSCOW, June 18. /TASS/: Russian-Serbian partnership does not depend on Belgrade’s dialogue with Brussels, Foreign Ministers of Russia and Serbia, Sergey Lavrov and Ivica Dacic, said in a joint article published by Russia’s Rossiisakaya Gazeta and Serbia’s Kurir dailies on Thursday.

MOSCOW, June 18. /TASS/: One child and three adults died in the shooting in an apartment on Priorova Street in northern Moscow, Russian Investigative Committee’s Main Investigative Directorate spokeswoman Yulia Ivanova told TASS.

"Two women, one man and one child died in the shooting," she said. According to preliminary investigation, the man committed suicide.

According to Ivanova, the neighbors heard loud claps and called the police.

"They told the police that a roommate came to the woman’s apartment," the spokeswoman said.

MOSCOW, June 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russia has finished clearing fuel from the surface of a river hit by a massive diesel spill in the Arctic region, but the full clean-up could take years, officials said.

After more than 700 people were deployed to clear the pollution, officials said the operation had removed the main spill from the surface of the most-polluted waterway, the River Ambarnaya.

The Marine Rescue Service told RIA Novosti news agency: “We have completed the active phase of collecting petroleum products.”

MOSCOW, June 17. /TASS/: Russia is calling on the US for greater transparency in adhering to the provisions of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev wrote in his article published in the Russia in Global Affairs journal.