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MOSCOW, July 13. /TASS/: Russian Foreign Ministry will do everything it can to free Russian citizens serving prison terms in the US, but the conditions for their release are unclear at this point, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said in an interview Tuesday.

MOSCOW, July 13. /TASS/: Moscow and Washington are in contact over the possible consequences of the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said in an interview with the International Affairs magazine.

"The situation is ambivalent. I think that based on a set of political, geopolitical, and domestic political reasons, the US will eventually move towards reducing its military presence in Afghanistan," he pointed out. "It will have multidimensional consequences, we are discussing this all with the Americans," Ryabkov added.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 13. /TASS/: Belarus remains Russia’s large and reliable partner in the economic sphere, the trade turnover between the two countries is growing, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday at a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s sovereign fund on Tuesday announced a deal with a top Indian vaccine manufacturer to produce the Russia-designed Sputnik V vaccine.

The Russian Direct Investment Fund, or RDIF, said its deal with the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by volume, envisages annual production of more than 300 million doses of the vaccine in India starting in September.

MOSCOW, July 12. /TASS/: A US embassy employee stole a railroad sign in Russia’s Tver Region in spring 2021, endangering the lives of train passengers, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova disclosed in her Telegram channel Monday.

"What is not funny is the danger that the US citizen put the lives and health of train passengers in. The Ostashkov hub is a rather busy part of the railroad. A railroad is a high danger area. If the missing sign was not discovered promptly, a tragedy could have happened," she said.

MOSCOW, July 12. /TASS/: Sudan is about to ratify the agreement with Russia on the establishment of a Russian Navy base on its territory, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after the talks with his Sudanese counterpart Mariam al-Mahdi Monday.

MOSCOW, July 12. /TASS/: Foreign Minister of Belarus Vladimir Makei has stated that the Belarusian authorities see good prospects for further integration with Russia, their main ally.

MOSCOW, July 12. /TASS/: The Sputnik V vaccine is effective against new coronavirus strains according to the study results by the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology published in the Vaccines leading international journal, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) reported on Monday.

MOSCOW, July 11. /TASS/: Nearly 1.2 million people in the Moscow region have received both shots of the coronavirus vaccine, the press service of the region’s governor said on Sunday.

"More than one million people have been inoculated with the first dose of the vaccine and nearly 1.2 million people have received both shots," it said on its Instagram account.

MOSCOW, July 11. /TASS/: Moscow has overcome peak numbers of COVID-19 cases and sees stabilization and a slight decline in the incidence, the Russian capital’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in an interview with the Rossiya-1 TV channel on Sunday.

"Moscow is certainly going through a challenging time. Thank God, we have overcome the peak numbers and now some stabilization is observed and even a slight decline in the incidence rate," Sobyanin said.