Russia

MOSCOW, April 12. /TASS/: The report of the US-based CNN TV company about the Eurobond default allegedly announced by Russia is not true to facts, the Russian Finance Ministry said on Tuesday.

VOSTOCHNY SPACEPORT /Amur Region/, April 12. /TASS/: Russia is not going to seal itself off from the rest of the world and it is ready to cooperate with all its partners who wish to do so, Russian President Vladimir Putin maintained.

April 12 (Reuters) - A Moscow court declined on Tuesday to rule on an appeal from a jailed former U.S. marine, who is seeking to overturn a nine-year sentence for an attack on two Russian police officers which he denies.

Trevor Reed, 30, from Texas, is serving out his term after being convicted in 2019 of endangering the lives of two police officers while drunk on a visit to Moscow. The United States has called his trial a "theatre of the absurd".

MOSCOW, April 11. /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin and visiting Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer have finished their talks at the Russian president’s residence in Novo-Ogaryovo, Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov told TASS on Monday.

"Yes, the meeting is over," he said. He did not say however how long the talks lasted.

It was the first contact between the two leaders after Nehammer took office late in 2021. Apart from that, Nehammer’s visit was the first visit by an EU leader to Russia since the launch of the special military operation in Ukraine.

MOSCOW, April 11./TASS/: The seizure of Russian diplomatic property in Poland may prompt a ‘long trail’ of consequences for both sides, Russian Ambassador in Warsaw Sergey Andreyev warned on Monday.

"This should be properly considered, since it is clear that when one of the parties violates the law this way, this entails certain consequences, decisions for the other side," the Russia diplomat told Channel One TV channel.

April 11 (Reuters) - Authorities in four Russian regions bordering Ukraine and in Russian-controlled Crimea announced they were stepping up security measures on Monday over what they said were "possible provocations" from the Ukrainian side.

Moscow, which sent thousands of troops into Ukraine in what it calls a "special military operation", has accused Ukraine of targeting its border regions, including by striking a fuel depot in the city of Belgorod earlier this month.

MOSCOW, April 10. /TASS/: Juice Development software developers have launched the service for channels transfer from YouTube to the Russian social network VKontakte, the official community of developers in the social network said.

"We have developed a service whereby bloggers can conveniently copy their YouTube channels to the VKontakte platform. Make several simple steps and the service will place all the needed videos in the VKontakte community or on the personal page," Developers said in the group.

MOSCOW, April 10. /TASS/: The weekly number of coronavirus cases in Russia has decreased to below 100,000 for the first time since June 2021, according to TASS estimates based on data from the anti-coronavirus crisis center.

The crisis center recorded a total of 99,194 cases between April 4 and April 10 in the country, a 26% drop from the previous week.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Russia grew by 13,056 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of infected to 17,996,060, the federal anti-coronavirus crisis center reported.

MOSCOW, April 9. /TASS/: Russia’s air defense forces have brought down three Ukrainian drones, including a Bayraktar, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Saturday.

"The Russian air defense has shot down three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles. Of those, two were shot down outside Mariupol and Kalininskoe, and another one, Bayraktar TB2, near Sakhnovschina, Kharkov region," he said.

MOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/: The decision of the European Union to cancel import of Russian coal will after its member-states in the first instance, Russian Energy Minister Nikolay Shulginov said, cited by the official Telegram channel of the Ministry.