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Russia to allocate up to $2 bln to Belarus for import substitution, Lukashenko says

MINSK, September 1. /TASS/: Belarus expects to receive about $2 billion from Russia for joint import substitution projects, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday.

He said this while hosting an open lecture, which was broadcast live in all schools and universities of the country.

"[As for our] joint import substitution projects. Now Russia is allocating us about $2 billion for these joint projects," he said.

On the whole, Lukashenko said, in the near future Belarus and Russia will have "countless projects" in all areas.

West wages hybrid war of aggression against Russia in Ukraine — Lavrov

MOSCOW, September 1. /TASS/: The collective West unleashed a hybrid war against Russia in a shameless, rude and aggressive way, when it realized that the plans for turning Ukraine into "anti-Russia" had failed, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a meeting with students and teachers at the MGIMO University on Thursday, the first day of the new academic year.

Belarus: Zelensky regime on verge of conflict with its own military, Lukashenko warns

MINSK, September 1. /TASS/: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday that a conflict is brewing in Ukraine between the military and the country’s president and that its peak should be expected in the near future.

"There is a conflict mounting between the president and military. Only military servicemen can say boldly: ‘We must reach an agreement otherwise Ukraine could be wiped off the face of the earth," Lukashenko revealed during an open discussion aired live on Thursday.

‘Fantastic confession’: Lavrov rips Baerbock's remark that Germans must suffer for Ukraine

MOSCOW, September 1. /TASS/: German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock's statement about the need for German citizens to suffer in order to support Ukraine was a ‘fantastic confession’, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday at a meeting with students and professors at Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

Russia to suspend oil supplies to states that will impose restrictions on price of its oil

MOSCOW, September 1. /TASS/: Russia will suspend supplies of oil and petroleum products to states, which will decide to restrict the price of oil from the country, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told reporters on Thursday.

"As far as price restrictions are concerned, if they impose restrictions on prices, we will simply not supply oil and petroleum products to such companies or states that impose restrictions as we will not work non-competitively," he said.

Russia Bans 55 More Canadians From Entry

MOSCOW, Sept 1 (NNN-TASS) – The Russian Foreign Ministry, announced yesterday that, an additional 55 Canadian citizens have been indefinitely barred from entering the country, in response to Ottawa’s anti-Russian sanctions.

In addition to the travel ban on these “high-ranking military, politicians and public figures,” the activities of three non-governmental organisations from Canada, are now recognised as undesirable in Russia, the ministry said.

Russia warns Moldova not to threaten its troops in breakaway region

Sept 1 (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Moldova on Thursday that threatening the security of Russian troops in the breakaway region of Transdniestria risked triggering military confrontation with Moscow.

Russia has stationed peacekeeping troops in Transdniestria since the early 1990s, when an armed conflict saw pro-Russian separatists wrest most of the region from Moldovan control.

Top Russian oil official falls to death from hospital window - sources

MOSCOW, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Ravil Maganov, the chairman of Russia's second-largest oil producer Lukoil (LKOH.MM), died on Thursday after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, two sources familiar with the situation said, becoming the latest in a series of businessmen to meet with sudden unexplained deaths.

The sources confirmed reports by several Russian media that the 67-year-old had plunged to his death, but the circumstances surrounding his fall were unclear.

Russia: Putin denies Gorbachev a state funeral and will stay away

Sept 1 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin is to miss the funeral of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, denying the man who failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet empire the full state honours granted to Boris Yeltsin.

Gorbachev, idolised in the West for allowing eastern Europe to escape Soviet communist control but unloved at home for the chaos that his "perestroika" reforms unleashed, will be buried on Saturday after a public ceremony in Moscow's Hall of Columns.

Germany: Pilot strike forces Lufthansa to cancel hundreds of flights

BERLIN, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- German flag carrier Lufthansa canceled almost all its flights to and from Frankfurt and Munich for Friday -- around 800 flights in total -- because of a strike by pilots, the company said on Thursday.

The first flights were already canceled on Thursday. An estimated 130,000 passengers will be affected by the cancelations, according to the airline.

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