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BERLIN, June 22. /TASS/: Nord Stream 2 AG, the operator of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, should substantiate its appeal against the decision of the German Federal Network Agency [Bundesnetzagentur] not to exempt the Nord Stream 2 project from requirements of the revised EU gas directive, a spokesperson of the Higher Regional Court in Dusseldorf told TASS on Monday.

TASS, June 22: Specialists of the Tomsk University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics, the company Micran (Tomsk) and the Research Institute of Precision Instruments (Moscow) successfully tested a new airborne compact radar station designed to get high-resolution images, the University’s press office reported on Monday.

The project is being implemented with the support of Russia’s Science and Higher Education Ministry.

MOSCOW, June 22. /TASS/: Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos plans to take part in the Army-2020 international military and technical forum that will be held near Moscow in August, the Roscosmos press office told TASS on Monday.

"As part of the upcoming Army-2020 forum, a united exposition of Roscosmos and space industry enterprises is planned," the press office said.

MOSCOW, June 22. /TASS/: Technopromexport engineering company can use the Russian high-capacity GTD-110M turbine at the Udarnaya Thermal Power Plant in the Krasnodar Region, a source in the energy industry told TASS on Monday.

"Considering readiness of the first domestic high-capacity turbine for serial production, this is a logical step. It is necessary to expedite import substitution in this sphere and refocus the market on the Russian equipment in the environment of sanctions and limited access to foreign technologies," the source said.

MOSCOW, June 22. /TASS/: Russia’s paratroopers will get around ten 1K144 Sektant robotized reconnaissance systems by the end of 2020, the Defense Ministry reported on Monday.

"About ten 1K144 Sektant small-size robotized monitoring systems will arrive for units of the Airborne Force by the end of 2020. The systems will arrive for separate Guards air assault large units in Ulan-Ude and Ussuriysk," the ministry said in a statement.

MOSCOW, June 22. /TASS/: Two Orlan-10 multi-purpose drones will arrive for Russia’s Kant air base in Kyrgyzstan by the end of 2020, the press office of the Central Military District reported on Monday.

Russia’s Central Military District Commander Colonel-General Alexander Lapin announced on February 27 that a squad of short- and medium-range unmanned aerial vehicles had been set up at the Kant air base in Kyrgyzstan.

MOSCOW, June 22. /TASS/: The chief of the Center of Heat Transfer and Aerogasdynamics at the Central Research Institute for Machine Building (TsNIIMash), Roman Kovalyov, who has pled guilty of high treason, has been sentenced to seven years in prison, a source in the special services has said.

"Kovalyov was found guilty under article 275 of the Criminal Code (high treason) and sentenced to seven years in a maximum security penitentiary," the source said.

LONDON (Reuters) - Former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said there would need to be greater public and private investment as the economy came out of the coronavirus slump, to counteract potential consumer weakness and meet longer-term environmental goals.

Carney, now an advisor to the British government on the United Nations COP26 climate summit next year, said the economy was only just beginning to come out of the slump caused by COVID-19, and it was too soon to know the long-term damage.

FRANKFURT, June 22 (Xinhua) -- German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Monday that there will soon be "a resolution without drama" to the recent German top court's ruling concerning the bond-buying program of the European Central Bank (ECB).

"This is not a drama without resolution, as we will soon see there will be a resolution without drama," Scholz said while giving a keynote speech to the Frankfurt Finance Summit via videolink from Berlin.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Top European Union officials are holding talks Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang at a time of rising tensions between two major trading partners over the fallout from the coronavirus crisis and Beijing’s increasing control over Hong Kong.