Russia

MOSCOW, July 29. /TASS/: AliExpress starts the small and medium enterprises program in Russian regions, where the company will act as the wholesaler for retail chains, the e-business company reports on Monday.

Goods from the seasonal range, accessories, home and garden products, and clothing will be available at the first stage.

The range of goods for wholesalers will also be available, with consideration of specific features of the region or the trade chain.

29 July 2019; AFP: Russia's jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny might have been exposed to an unidentified "toxic agent," his personal doctor said on Monday, while health officials insisted his condition was satisfactory.

"Some toxic agent may be the reason for Alexei Navalny's 'illness'," his physician Anastasia Vasilyeva said in a post on Facebook, adding that officials at Moscow's hospital No 64, which treated him, have behaved strangely.

MOSCOW, July 28./TASS/: A Russian submarine and missile ships took part in a naval parade marking Russia’s Navy Day in the Syrian port of Tartus on Sunday, the Defense Ministry’s press service said in a report.

"The diesel-electric submarine Stary Oskol, the Admiral Grigorovich frigate, the Pytlivyi patrol ship, the Velikiy Ustyug and Uglich small missile ships" took part in the parade along with other vessels, the press service said.

MOSCOW, TASS, July 28: The Russian fishing boat Xiang Hai Lin 8, released on Saturday after being detained by North Korean border patrol officers, has arrived at a port in Sokcho, South Korea, Yonhap reported on Sunday referring to the Ministry of Unification.

IRKUTSK, July 28. /TASS/: The monthly amount of precipitation has fallen in the Russian town of Tulun in the Irkutsk Region in 24 hours, residential buildings and land plots are flooded again, the region’s government website says.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 28. /TASS/: Russian Navy is ready to fight back any aggressor, President Vladimir Putin said at the Main Naval Parade marking Russia’s Navy Day on Sunday.

"Our Navy ensures security of the country, its national interests and can properly repulse any aggressor," the president said.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian police cracked down fiercely Saturday on demonstrators in central Moscow, beating some people and arresting more than 1,000 who were protesting the exclusion of opposition candidates from the ballot for Moscow city council. Police also stormed into a TV station broadcasting the protest.

Police wrestled with protesters around the mayor’s office, sometimes charging into the crowd with their batons raised. State news agencies Tass and RIA-Novosti cited police as saying 1,074 were arrested over the course of the protests, which lasted more than seven hours.

MOSCOW, July 26. /TASS/: The draft law on limiting foreign participation in Russian IT-resources to 20% will negatively affects all IT companies operating in the country and as a results end users will also suffer from it, a spokesperson with the Yandex internet company told TASS.

27 July 2019; AFP: Russian opposition and ordinary Muscovites plan to take to the streets of Moscow Saturday to demand free and fair polls despite a police crackdown including the jailing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

This week authorities jailed President Vladimir Putin's top opponent for 30 days and launched a probe targeting his allies but activists said they would not abandon plans to attend an unauthorised rally.

KRASNODAR, July 26. /TASS/: All crew members of the Nika Spirit tanker detained in Ukraine are in good health, a spokesperson for the vessel’s owner, Fos Shipping Management, told TASS. The crew members earlier returned to Russia from Ukraine.

"Everyone is fine, they didn’t suffer any injuries, no one used violence against them," the spokesperson said.