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MOSCOW, February 9. /TASS/: Russian and Belarusian Presidents, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, are doing much to develop bilateral relations although they are committed to their countries’ interests, Russian president’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday.

KEMEROVO, February 9. /TASS/: One woman died and more than 20 others were injured when a bus and a truck crashed in West Siberia’s Kemerovo Region, the local emergencies medicine center told TASS on Sunday.

"A woman born in 1948 died on the operating table, she received fatal injuries," a spokesperson said.

Twenty-two others have been injured and two of them are in severe condition. 10 people are in the hospital’s admission unit and are being examined by doctors. 10 others received medical assistance at a first-aid station, the spokesperson said.

KHANTY-MANSIYSK, February 9. /TASS/: Russia’s Utair airline has blamed a wind shift for the emergency landing of its plane at the airport of Usinsk, in northwestern Russia’s Komi Republic.

"During the landing of Boeing 737 a sharp unpredictable wind shift occurred at the airport of Usinsk," the press service said.

MOSCOW, February 9. /TASS/: The United States has been setting up new military bases in northeastern Syria to gain foothold in oil-rich regions of the country, Turkey’s Anadolu news agency has reported.

According to the agency’s sources, US servicemen started creating a base near Tal Brak, a village in northern Al-Hasakah Governorate, in a bid to block Russian servicemen the way to the Rmelan district that houses Syria’s main oil fields. Equipment and materials for the construction have been redeployed from Iraq.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Boeing 737 airliner with 96 people onboard made a hard landing in northwestern Russia on Sunday due to a problem with the chassis, emergency officials and aviation authorities said.

Nobody was injured when a UTair aircraft, en route from Moscow, landed at the airport of Usinsk, a town in the Komi Republic some 1,500 kilometers (932 miles) from Moscow.

Russia’s civil aviation authority said the hard landing was due to a problem with the chassis. It said all passengers and crew had safely left the aircraft.

MOSCOW, Feb 8 (NNN-TASS) – Russian Foreign Ministry said, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is witnessing manipulation and contraventions that seek to make it a tool for carrying out Western plans.

In a statement commenting on the internal OPCW investigation, into the leaks related to the alleged chemical attack in Douma, the Ministry said, the press conference held by OPCW’s Director General, Fernando Arias, did not address whether the OPCW report was politicised or not.

MOSCOW, February 8. /TASS/: The first two microsatellites with laser diodes, which will make it possible to write messages in the sky, will be launched into orbit in 2022, Director of the Project Implementation Department at Russia’s United Rocket and Space Corporation Andrei Divaev told TASS.

"We will transport two devices to the ISS aboard the Progress cargo spacecraft, where a container will be mounted in the transition compartment, which will launch them when the spaceship is undocked," he said.

SOCHI, February 7. /TASS/: Russia and Belarus negotiated gas supplies in this year to be implemented on last-year terms, deputy head of the Russian presidential administration Dmitry Kozak said on Friday after bilateral talks.

"We agreed to keep conditions of gas supplies on terms of the year of 2019," the official said.

MOSCOW, Feb 8 (NNN-SANA) – The Russian Defence Ministry, revealed that the Israeli enemy aircraft, during their attacks against some areas surrounding Damascus, used a civilian aircraft as a shield, against Syrian anti-aircraft systems, and endangered dozens of passengers.

8 February 2020; AFP: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday slammed US sanctions against Venezuela as "illegal" during an official visit to Caracas.

"These sanctions are illegal and are the main cause of the crisis in the Venezuelan economy," said Lavrov after meeting his Venezuelan counterpart Jorge Arreaza.