Russia

MOSCOW, February 25. /TASS/: The Industry and Trade Ministry is to suspend the work of Russia’s trade missions in the U.S. and the Baltic States, Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov said in an interview with the NTV television channel on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, February 25. /TASS/: A joint mission of the United States, Canada and Norway will perform an observation flight above Russia’s territory on February 25-29, chief of the Russian National Center for Nuclear Risk Reduction Sergei Ryzhkov said on Tuesday.

"Implementing the international Treaty on Open Skies, a joint mission of the United States, Canada and Norway will perform an observation flight above the territory of the Russian Federation in the period of February 25-29, on the Swedish Saab 340 aircraft to take off from Kubinka airfield [near Moscow]," he said.

MOSCOW, February 25. /TASS/: Russia’s National Projects are about concrete tasks, resources to fulfill them and personal responsibility, and this is what makes them different from the previous programs, Russian President Vladimir Putin told TASS in an interview for the project entitled "20 Questions with Vladimir Putin."

"Each issue implies personal responsibility. That is what the National Projects are all about," he said, adding: "We have never used such tools before."

MOSCOW, February 25. /TASS/: Moscow does not interfere in the domestic affairs of the United States and strongly opposes foreign interference in Russia’s internal affairs, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, commenting on a statement by the Russian embassy in Washington saying that anti-Russian electoral rhetoric had led to an unprecedented deterioration in relations between the two countries.

MOSCOW, February 24. / TASS /: The cost of futures for Brent crude oil for delivery in April 2020 on the ICE exchange in London fell by 2.9% to $ 56.87 per barrel, according to trading data at 02:17 Moscow time.

The last time the oil price was below $ 57 per barrel on February 14, 2020. The cost of WTI crude oil fell by 2.4% to $ 52.12 per barrel.

MOSCOW, February 24. /TASS/: Russian inspectors will perform an observation flight over Turkey in the framework of the Open Skies Treaty, Head of the Russian Defense Ministry’s National Nuclear Risk Reduction Center Sergey Ryzhkov said.

"The observation flight over the territory of Turkey will be performed on February 25-28, 2020 from the Open Skies airfield of Eskisehir. The maximum flight range will be 1,900 km," Ryzhkov said.

The flight will be carried out by the Russian surveillance plane Tu-154M-LK-1.

MOSCOW, February 24. /TASS/: A new batch of British OneWeb communication satellites has been sent from a Florida plant to the Baikonur spaceport, the press service of the company’s branch in Russia said on Monday.

"The plane with 34 satellites took off at 01.55 Moscow Time from the United States," a spokesperson said.

The delivery to Baikonur is expected on February 25.

Earlier, OneWeb’s press service told TASS that the second launch of British satellites from the Baikonur spaceport was scheduled for the second half of March.

MOSCOW, February 23. /TASS/: No negative predictions should be made about the development of Russian-Turkish relations amid a recent escalation in the Syrian region of Idlib, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a televised interview with Moscow. The Kremlin. Putin program on Rossiya’1 channel on Sunday.

MOSCOW, February 24. /TASS/: Chinese authorities are confident that the novel coronavirus outbreak will be defeated soon and a normal life will resume in most regions across the country by the end of February.

A supposedly effective vaccine has been developed that helps mount an immune response against the infection, and it needs to be fine-tuned and tested, Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui told reporters on Monday.

MOSCOW, February 22. /TASS/: Russia will put the problem of non-issuance of US visas for delegates to UN events in New York City point-blank, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said in an interview with TASS.

He described the situation when the country hosting the United Nations headquarters denied visas to delegates from UN member nations as "absolutely outrageous."

"The United Nations has a special committee on relations with the host country. It has already held a meeting and will meet again, and we will put this problem point-blank," Vershinin stressed.