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The Russian authorities intend to expand the Far Eastern Hectare program to the Arctic.

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, speaking about new possible US sanctions against the Russian Federation, said that the Kremlin condemns and considers any sanctions as illegal.

Ukrainian Ambassador Andriy Melnyk in Berlin urged Western countries to think about restoring his country's nuclear status.

State Duma Chairman Viacheslav Volodin told reporters that the United States would have to move forward and give way to Russia.

According to Dmitry Peskov, some countries are trying to create an ephemeral threat in the face of Russia in order to justify their unfriendly actions.

The Russian government has decided to terminate the tax agreement with the Netherlands. The decree on this was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.

Maxim Ovchinnikov, the first deputy general director of the state corporation for economics and finance, said that one of the counterparties of Roscosmos in 2020 refused the contract for the launch of the satellite due to US sanctions.

Erna Sulberg was fined 20.000 kronor (about 1.980 euros).

According to the Chinese diplomat, the United States should provide the international community with information about the experiments being carried out in military biological laboratories in Ukraine and at Fort Detrick.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the United States and its allies unreliable partners.

The former head of the SBU Investigation Department, Major General Vasily Vovk, said on the Nash TV channel that NATO's interference in the situation in eastern Ukraine could lead to the loss of Kiev's control over several regions of the country's southeast.

No further steps towards Ukraine's NATO membership are currently foreseen. This was stated at a briefing in Berlin by the deputy official representative of the FRG government Ulrike Demmer.

If Kiev goes on the offensive, the DPR will not stop at its current borders, as said the head of the self-proclaimed republic Denis Pushilin.

A certificate of vaccination against coronavirus on the portal of public services can now be obtained in English.

The European Court of Human Rights found the verdict against the activist unfair.