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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is suggesting that he was a key figure in the takeover of Kosovo’s airport by Russian troops at the end of the 1999 war.

The occupation of the Slatina airport outside the capital Pristina produced one of the most tense standoffs between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War.

MOSCOW, June 14. /TASS/: Russia’s coronavirus cases rose by 8,835 in the past day, reaching 528,964, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Sunday.

According to the crisis center, the daily growth rate reached 1.7% like a day earlier.

New 1,477 cases were recorded in Moscow, 717 in the Moscow Region, 256 in St. Petersburg, 254 in the Sverdlovsk Region and 229 in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District.

Currently, 241,966 people are undergoing treatment for the coronavirus in Russia.

MOSCOW, June 14. /TASS/: The chances that US President Donald Trump will be reelected at the November election will not lower due to the unrest gripping the United States after the death of Afro-American George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but on the contrary, the unrest will mobilize his electorate, Dmitry Suslov, Deputy Director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the Russian Higher School of Economics (HSE) and an expert of the Valdai Discussion Club, told TASS on Saturday.

MOSCOW, June 14. /TASS/: The riots in the United States show deep internal crises in this country, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" posted on Instagram page of the program’s host Pavel Zarubin on Sunday.

MOSCOW, June 14. /TASS/: It’s important to include the issues of social support for citizens in the Russian Constitution so that they are not removed from practical life, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with Pavel Zarubin, the host of "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" program on Rossiya-1 television.

Although many these norms written down in the constitutional amendments are working now, it is necessary to include them in the key law so that they continue working in the future, the president said.

BERLIN, June 5. /TASS/: The German government rejects extraterritorial sanctions by the United States as Berlin’s position on Nord Stream 2 has not changed, a representative of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy told a briefing on Friday.

The official was commenting on the bill a group of US senators submitted to the Senate. The document implies expansion of sanctions against the gas pipeline.

"We are following the development of the situation around Nord Stream 2 in the USA, but we do not comment on this," she said.

MOSCOW, June 14. /TASS/: Two passenger planes collided tangentially at Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg, a source in the emergencies services told TASS on Sunday.

"On June 14, a grazing collision occurred between flights St. Petersburg-Irkutsk and St. Petersburg-Kaliningrad during the taxiing on the runway," the source said. No casualties were reported.

The airport is working as normal.

MOSCOW, June 14. /TASS/: Many in foreign countries see that the world will be a worse and less safer place without strong and prosperous Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday.

"There are people abroad who want to see Russia strong and prosperous and want this factor to be in place in global affairs," he said in an interview with the Vesti Nedely weekly news roundup on the Rossiya-1 television channel.

14 June 2020; AFP: Police clashed with demonstrators in Paris and Lyon Saturday, firing tear gas and water cannons as thousands turned out across France for the latest wave of protests against racism and police violence.

Officers prevented protesters trying to launch a march through the streets of the capital, at the end of a three-hour rally. They fired tear gas after some demonstrators pelted them with projectiles.

WARSAW (Reuters) - Some members of Poland’s government on Friday denied a Reuters report saying talks over a U.S.-Polish defense deal known as Fort Trump were crumbling amid disputes over how to fund the deployment of additional U.S troops and where to garrison them.

“This is fake news,” Krzysztof Szczerski, a top aide to the Polish president, told public radio on Friday.

The U.S. ambassador to Poland, Georgette Mosbacher, reacting on Twitter to the report, said negotiations remained on track.