Moscow plans to renegotiate a gas transit deal with the European Union for a short time in order to gain time to complete the construction of pipelines bypassing Ukraine, Reuters reports, citing four sources. The gas transit agreement from Russia through Ukraine expires at the end of 2019.

At a meeting on Friday, the Federation Council rejected a law expanding the powers of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation regarding the regulation of the order of weight control of vehicles.

Deputy Elena Yampolskaya proposed to allow the display of attributes of the Third Reich in computer games. She prepared the amendment for the second reading of the draft law clarifying the rules for the use of such symbolism in works of art and science.

The Central Election Commission of Ukraine completed the counting of votes in elections to the Verkhovna Rada. Founded in 2016 by Vladimir Zelensky, the “Servant of the People” party won 43.16% of the vote.

American influential senator Lindsay Graham said that at the request of US President Donald Trump he asked Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Chavushoglu not to put into operation Russian S-400 air defense system, then the United States would not impose sanctions.