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MOSCOW, January 21. /TASS/: The Russian Health Ministry’s Center for Strategic Planning and Management of Medical and Biological Health Risks will complete next month its work on developing a snap test for detecting new coronavirus 2019-nCoV that has caused the outbreak of pneumonia in China, Deputy Health Minister Oleg Salagai said on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, Jan 21 (NNN-TASS) – The death toll from a fire that broke out in a one-story wooden residential building, in the village of Prichulymsky in Russia‘s Tomsk region, rose to 11 people, Russia‘s Emergencies Ministry said today (Tuesday), as investigators announce

MOSCOW, January 20. /TASS/: The first shipments of Russia’s Pantsir-S1 surface-to-air missile systems to Serbia will commence in late February this year, a source in the military-industrial complex told TASS.

"[At the] end of February, in accordance with the terms of the contract," the source said.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced that Belgrade had ordered the Pantsir systems (NATO code name SA-22 Greyhound) on October 24, 2019. This past November, Rosoboronexport Chairman Alexander Mikheyev told TASS that Russia would ship the systems in the upcoming months.

MOSCOW, January 20. /TASS/: Armored units of Russia’s 201st military base held a tactical live-fire exercise at the Lyaur mountainous range in Tajikistan, the press office of the Central Military District reported on Monday.

MOSCOW, January 20. /TASS/: Rostec prepared a proposal to create a special airline operating Russian aircraft and helicopters to develop regional transportation, Aviation Cluster Industrial Director of the Rostec State Corporation Anatoly Serdyukov told reporters on Monday. In the near future, discussions will be held with all interested parties, after which parameters of the project will be discussed, he added.

MOSCOW, January 20. /TASS/: The Border Service of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in the Far East’s Sakhalin Region confirmed on Monday that a Japanese fishing vessel has been released after paying a fine.

The captain of the vessel, Shoyo Maru No. 68., was found guilty of violating fishing rules in Russia’s territorial waters. "After the fine was paid, the administrative arrest of Japanese vessel was lifted and the ship left the Yuzhno-Kurilsk maritime terminal," the press service said.

MOSCOW, January 20. /TASS/: The Project 20385 lead corvette Gremyashchiy has completed the program of state trials in the Barents Sea and is preparing for its inter-fleet passage to the Baltic Sea, the Northern Fleet’s press office reported on Monday.

MOSCOW, January 18. /TASS/: Leaders of terrorist groups in the Idlib de-escalation zone, who fight against the Syrian government forces, seek to trigger a spiral of escalation, hoping for Western countries’ support, in order to mobilize militants and hold control of the occupied areas, Major-General Yuri Borenkov, chief of the Russian center for reconciliation of the conflicting sides in Syria, told reporters on Saturday.

MOSCOW, January 18. /TASS/: Russia’s former Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev dubbed the government’s resignation as a routine event and called to take it calmly, Medvedev said in a televised interview on Channel One on Saturday.

"In general, the resignation of a government should be always taken absolutely calmly. There is nothing extraordinary about that. It happens throughout the world, it happens in our country. Maybe, it did not use to take place very often in recent years, but nevertheless, it is a totally routine event," Medvedev said.

ST. PETERSBURG, January 19. /TASS/: The truth about Second World War is sometimes hushed up deliberately at the state level and some corresponding websites are closed down, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday at a meeting with WWII veterans and public activists.

According to the president, when propaganda that distorts the truth about the war goes up to the level of state in foreign countries, nothing can be said against, since it would not be allowed.