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29 Apr 2023; AA: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Saturday that over the past three decades, the shares of the Group of Seven (G7) countries in the global economy have significantly decreased, while the influence of emerging markets is growing steadily.

MOSCOW, April 29. /TASS/: Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Russia increased by 5,990 over the past day, with 32 fatalities, the federal anti-coronavirus crisis center reported on Saturday.

A day before, Russia reported 6,548 daily novel coronavirus cases and 31 fatalities. In total, Russia has recorded 22,845,868 COVID-19 cases and 398,271 fatalities since the beginning of the pandemic in the county, the latest figures indicate.

Coronavirus recoveries increased by 7,186 over the past 24 hours compared to 7,775 a day before, totaling 22,244,169, the crisis center reported.

MOSCOW, April 29. /TASS/: Russian forces delivered a strike by seaborne precision weapons against the command staff of the Ukrainian battlegroup Kherson on the evening of April 28 during the special military operation in Ukraine, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported on Saturday.

"A multiple strike by long-range seaborne precision weapons was delivered against the location of the command staff of the Ukrainian integrated battlegroup Kherson. The goal of the strike was achieved," the spokesman said.

MOSCOW, April 29. /TASS/: More than 50 countries have already confirmed their interest in participating in the Games of the Future, as more than 100 countries are expected to take part, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko told journalists on Saturday.

The Games of the Future will take place in Kazan from February 23 to March 2, 2024.

MOSCOW, April 29. /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin has recorded a video address to participants and guests of the ceremony launching the countdown to the first international tournament ‘Games of the Future,’ according to the video posted on the Kremlin website on Saturday.

MOSCOW, April 29. /TASS/: The seizure of the Russian embassy school in Warsaw can be defined as a provocation, as Poland has been violating international law and bilateral agreements for years, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel on Saturday.

MOSCOW, April 29 (Reuters) - Armenia and Azerbaijan will hold a new round of talks in Washington on Sunday to try to normalise relations, Yerevan said on Saturday, after weeks of rising tensions over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Armed forces from the two Caucasus neighbours have frequently exchanged fire amid disputes over the mountain enclave, which is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but populated mainly by ethnic Armenians.

April 29 (Reuters) - A drone strike caused a fire at a fuel storage facility in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, sending a vast column of black smoke into the sky before it was extinguished, the city's Moscow-installed governor said on Saturday.

Experts examined the site and "it became clear that only one drone was able to reach the oil reservoir," Mikhail Razvozhaev said on the Telegram messaging app, adding no one had been injured in the fire.

Another drone was downed, its wreckage found on the shore near the terminal, Razvozhaev added.

MOSCOW, April 29 (Reuters) - Russia on Saturday promised it would respond harshly to what it said was Poland's illegal seizure of its embassy school in Warsaw, an act it called a flagrant violation of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations.

Polish state-run news channel TVP Info had earlier reported that police had showed up outside the Russian embassy school on Kieleckiej street in Warsaw on Saturday morning.

When asked about the incident, a Polish foreign ministry spokesman told Reuters the building housing the embassy school belonged to the Polish state.

VLADIVOSTOK, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has authorized oil and oil product supplies to friendly countries under contracts signed before Feb. 1, according to a decree published on Friday.

The decree, which takes effect from Friday, amended a previous one Putin signed at the end of last year that banned Russian oil and oil product supplies to foreign entities if their contracts directly or indirectly involved a price cap imposed by Western countries.