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KALININGRAD, June 28. /TASS/: Russia’s travel industry may recover after the coronavirus pandemic by next spring, Head of the Federal Agency for Tourism Zarina Doguzova told TASS.

"Tourism may recover earlier than by the end of 2021, meaning as early as by spring of 2021. Moreover, we suggest that hoteliers and travel agencies together with regions should address extension of this resort season by the end of October 2020," she said.

MOSCOW, June 28. /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday it was a real challenge for him to work in an online format as he prefers to talks to people face-to-face.

"Indeed, it was a challenge to a certain extent, because I like to communicate with people. It is a pleasure for me to have direct contact with people," he said in an interview with the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin program on the Rossiya-1 television channel.

MOSCOW, June 28. /TASS/: Russia is ready to supply to the global market anti-viral medication, test systems and vaccine given the risk of the second wave of the coronavirus infection, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said on Sunday.

MOSCOW, June 28. /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin said he regularly passes tests for COVID-19 and all of them were negative.

"Regularly, once in three or four days," Putin said in an interview with "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" program on Rossiya-1 TV channel when asked how often he passed tests. Answering a question whether the results were negative, Putin said: "Thank God, yes so far."

MOSCOW, June 28. /TASS/: Get over everything, to cope with everything and survive. The question is the price of it," he said in an interview with the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin program on the Rossiya-1 television channel on Sunday when asked whether Russia could have withstood such a crisis should it happen twenty years ago.

LONDON (Reuters) - Police in Scotland named a man who was shot dead by officers during a knife attack in the city of Glasgow as Badreddin Abadlla Adam, 28, from Sudan.

Six people, including a policeman, were stabbed at a hotel in the city centre on Friday before the attacker was shot dead.

Police said they were not looking for any other suspects and were not treating the incident as terrorism. The attacker was the only person killed.

Earlier on Saturday, the injured police officer, Constable David Whyte, issued a statement from hospital.

(Reuters) - UK’s most senior civil servant Sir Mark Sedwill will announce his departure as early as this week under Boris Johnson’s plans for a Whitehall revolution, the Telegraph reported on Saturday.

The announcement would be made as early as Monday, according to the report bit.ly/2YDCdvb.

Sedwill was appointed national security adviser by then-Prime Minister Theresa May in 2017 and then was made Cabinet secretary a year later.

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said on Sunday the United States and Britain could agree a trade deal that did not cover all sectors straight away, instead leaving the more difficult issues for a later date.

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson will launch a plan this week to get Britain “moving again” after the coronavirus lockdown, when the government will set out measures to boost infrastructure construction, interior minister Priti Patel said on Sunday.

Johnson will make a speech on Tuesday to set out plans to fast-track building projects such as hospitals, schools, housing, and road and rail infrastructure, part of efforts to try to stem a fall in support for his government.

BELGRADE, June 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Serbian Defence Minister, Aleksandar Vulin, tested positive for COVID-19, the Defence Ministry said Saturday, in a press statement.

Vulin underwent a regular test, after having contact with one of the state secretaries in the Ministry of Defence, who was recently hospitalised due to COVID-19 infection, said the statement.