Russia

MOSCOW, June 10./TASS/: Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky was not invited to attend the Victory parade in Moscow on June 24, since Ukraine is not a CIS member country de facto, and since it has not signaled its wish to share the joy of Victory Day celebrations, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, June 10. /TASS/: The Project 21631 small missile ship Graivoron armed with Kalibr cruise missiles will be delivered to the Black Sea Fleet by the end of 2020. The latest missile corvette entered dockside trials on Wednesday, Russian Navy Spokesman Captain 1st Rank Igor Dygalo said.

MOSCOW, June 10 (NNN-TASS) – Despite its long-term reliance on Russian spacecraft, the United States does not take the Russian space programme seriously, said Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency.

“When our partners finally managed to conduct a successful test on their spacecraft, there were nothing but jokes and mockery directed at us,” Rogozin said, in this week’s Russian version of Forbes, noting that the American space industry should have thanked Russia instead.

MOSCOW, June 9. /TASS/: US epidemiologists analyzed the structure of over 10,000 coronavirus specimens from various regions of the world and concluded that currently there are six SARS-CoV-2 varieties spreading across the globe. The research is published on the bioRxiv website.

"The genomic epidemiology of the 10,422 SARS-CoV-2 isolates studied here show six predominant clonal complexes (CCs) circulated/circulating globally," the researchers say.

NOVO-OGARYOVO, June 9. /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the work of the Russian financial system, as well and major financial institutions.

MOSCOW, June 9. /TASS/: Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin and US Ambassador to Moscow John Sullivan discussed over the phone on Tuesday bilateral cooperation and interaction in ironing out regional conflicts.

"During the conversation major focus was made on the issues of bilateral cooperation at international venues as well as coordinating efforts of our countries in contributing to settling regional conflicts," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The phone conversation was held at the US side’s initiative.

MOSCOW, June 9. /TASS/: Israel’s plans to annex parts of occupied Palestinian territories will shut the door on the two-state solution and may provoke another round of violence in the region, Russian Special Presidential Representative for the Middle East and Africa Mikhail Bogdanov said in an interview for Egypt-based Al-Ahram newspaper, also published on the Russian Foreign Ministry's website Tuesday.

MOSCOW, June 9. /TASS/: The claims that members of the Wagner Group private military company are present in Libya are based on fabricated data, Russian Special Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Africa and Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said in an interview with Egypt’s Al-Ahram daily.

MOSCOW, June 9. /TASS/: About 1 mln people will return to work in Moscow this week after the self-isolation measures in the Russian capital have been lifted, Moscow Deputy Mayor Vladimir Yefimov told TASS.

Earlier, Russian Mayor Sergei Sobyanin informed that starting June 9, the self-isolation regime in Moscow would be cancelled, along with the permit system and the schedule for walks around the city. Beauty parlors, hairdressers and other enterprises will begin work on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, June 9. /TASS/: Moscow identified 1,572 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, this is the lowest number since April 16, the national anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters Tuesday.

The daily increase rate dropped to 0.8% in Russia’s capital. Yesterday, 2,001 new infections were identified in Moscow.

Overall, Moscow has 198,590 cases of the virus.