Russia

MOSCOW, July 10. /TASS/: Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak has discussed with CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber issues of bilateral cooperation in production of hydrocarbons and liquefied natural gas (LNG) and in geological exploration, the Russian Energy Ministry said on Thursday.

Novak said that energy cooperation between the two countries is developing and has a great potential. In particular, he noted that cooperation in the sphere of liquified natural gas is especially promising.

MOSCOW, July 11. /TASS/: Four satellites launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome on Wednesday in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry were delivered to the designated orbit, the ministry's press service said on Thursday.

"The Soyuz-2.1v carrier rocket launched on July 10 at 8:14pm Moscow time from the State Trial Cosmodrome Plesetsk (Arkhangelsk region), has successfully delivered the Russian Defense Ministry's spacecraft to the designated orbit," the press service said.

MOSCOW, July 10. /TASS/: A Russian Emergencies Ministry aircraft has evacuated over 30 children of Russian citizens held in a prison in Iraq's Baghdad, the ministry’s press service told TASS on Wednesday.

"A special Il-76 flight belonging to the Russian Emergencies Ministry has arrived from Baghdad to Ramenskoye Airport in the Moscow Region with 33 children of Russian citizens that found themselves in the armed conflict zone," the ministry stated.

MOSCOW, July 10. /TASS/: The number of cases when militants recruit teenagers from the Syrian Rukban camp has considerably grown over the past month, according to a joint statement made by heads of the interdepartmental coordination headquarters of Russia and Syria Mikhail Mizintsev and Hussein Makhlouf on Wednesday.

TASS, July 10. Russian Air Force officer and Roscosmos cosmonaut Gennady Padalka has joined the crew of the Gulfstream G650ER jet, attempting to achieve a record-breaking fastest polar circumnavigation, organizers of the One More Orbit flight wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.

Padalka got on board of the jet in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan during the jet’s refuel stopover. The organizers pointed out that it took 27 minutes, 18 minutes less than planned.

MOSCOW, July 10. /TASS/: It’s early now to speak about resuming flights to Georgia, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday, noting that the situation would be monitored.

"The restrictions on flights, the flight ban is an absolutely forced measure, and consequently, the situation will be constantly monitored. As soon as the signs emerge that the situation has normalized for Russian tourists after such Russophobic manifestations, time will come for analyzing this and taking other decisions. Now it is early to speak about this," Peskov said.

MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/: Just like any other member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran has the right to possess as much uranium enriched to 4.5% as it needs, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the Vienna-based international organizations Mikhail Ulyanov said on Tuesday.

MOSCOW/KIEV, July 10. /TASS/: The United States have failed to fulfill some of agreements on Ukraine reached during a phone conversation between the leaders of Russia and the United States in 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin told US filmmaker Oliver Stone in the Revealing Ukraine documentary.

In the documentary, presented during the Taormina film festival on July 6, Stone asks Putin to comment on his phone conversation with then US President Barack Obama, which took place against the background of the 2014 mass rallies in Kiev, known as Maidan.

MOSCOW, July 10. /TASS/: Moscow’s Basmanny Court arrested 121.7 million euro on bank accounts of former Russian minister Mikhail Abyzov, who is facing fraud charges, court spokesperson Yunona Tsareva told TASS on Wednesday.

"On July 4, the Basmanny Court upheld a request by investigative bodies to impose arrest on financial assets belonging to defendant Mikhail Abyzov, amounting to 121.7 million euro, placed into banking institutions," the spokeswoman said.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 10. /TASS/: The outlook of future submarines will radically change compared to underwater cruisers operational today, Scientific Head of the Krylov State Research Center Valery Polovinkin told TASS at the St. Petersburg international maritime defense show on Wednesday.