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(TASS) --- The Justice of the Peace of Court in Moscow’s Tagansky District again fined Google 3.5 mln rubles ($47,700) for the repeated failure of the search engine operator to perform its duties, the Court’s press service told TASS.

"By a ruling of the Justice of the Peace of Court No. 422 in Moscow’s Tagansky District, Google has been found guilty of the administrative offence under Part 2.1, Article 13.40 of the Russian Administrative Code. It [Google] has been levied with an administrative fine amounting to 3.5 mln rubles," the court said.

SOCHI, May 27. /TASS/: The modern Russian Army must be compact, but display efficiency, Russian President Vladimir Putin believes. To achieve that goal, Russia must develop its military transport aviation, he says. 

"I reiterate that, for our country, with its huge territory, the largest territory in the world, this [development of the military transport aviation] has special importance, so that our army can stay compact, as we always say, but efficient. This is also important for successful landing operations," the head of said during a meeting on defense.

(Reuters) --- A senior Russian security official said on Thursday that Moscow had used its navy and air force to expel a British warship, HMS Dragon, from what he described as Russian territorial waters near Russian-annexed Crimea last October.

Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, drawing sanctions and condemnation from the West. Kyiv wants the territory back.

26 May 2021; MEMO: Russian gas producer Gazprom has resumed supplies to Turkey via the Blue Stream gas pipeline, the Interfax news agency quoted the company as saying yesterday.

Gazprom had suspended the supply for planned maintenance on 12 May and restarted earlier than the scheduled date of 27 May.

MOSCOW, May 26. /TASS/: Russia’s Sukhoi aircraft maker (part of the United Aircraft Corporation of Russia’s Rostec) is now developing Russia’s first single-engine low-observable hypersonic light tactical fighter aircraft, an aircraft industry source has told TASS.

MOSCOW, May 26. /TASS/: Russia has taken fitting diplomatic demarches in Moscow and Riga after ‘blatant disrespectful’ actions by the Latvian capital’s authorities, who swapped Russian flags around Latvia’s capital with those of the Russian Olympic Committee, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a commentary on Wednesday.

MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin sought Wednesday to temper expectations for next month’s summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden but noted the meeting’s importance amid soaring tensions between their countries.

Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned against anticipating a “reset” after the June 16 summit in Geneva, emphasizing that differences between Moscow and Washington run too deep.

MOSCOW, May 25. /TASS/: Poland is interested in importing a coronavirus vaccine for animals and corresponding diagnostic kits from Russia, the Russian agricultural watchdog said in a statement on Tuesday.

"Poland's interest in importing the Russian vaccine Carnivac-Cov, developed to protect animals from the new coronavirus infection, and the corresponding diagnostic kits, was voiced on May 24 during the talks the Polish side initiated with the Rosselkhoznadzor (Russian agricultural watchdog - TASS)," according to the statement.

SOCHI, May 25. /TASS/: The trials of the latest S-500 anti-aircraft missile system are successfully nearing completion and the system is next to be supplied to the troops, Russian President Vladimir Putin said while opening a meeting with the leadership of the Defense Ministry and defense enterprises on Tuesday.

"Over 70% of surface-to-air missile regiments in the Aerospace Force have been rearmed with advanced S-400 systems. The S-500 system whose trials are successfully nearing completion is next to be delivered to the troops," Putin said.

MOSCOW, May 25. /TASS/: The justice of the peace court of Moscow’s Tagansky District fined Google 2 mln rubles ($27,270) for the refusal to remove information prohibited by Russian laws, the Court’s press service told TASS.

"Google LLC was found guilty of an administrative offense stipulated by Part 2, Article 13.41 of the Russian Code of Administrative Offenses, by the ruling of the justice of the peace of the judicial section No. 422 of Moscow’s Tagansky District. It was assessed an administrative fine worth 2 mln rubles," the court said.