Russia

MOSCOW, November 11. /TASS/: Russia will not be allowed to host the 2023 World Chess Championship due to the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) previously issued recommendations, President of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) Arkady Dvorkovich told TASS on Friday.

MOSCOW, November 11. /TASS/: The time when financial institutions were conservative is over and done with, Governor of the Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina said at the Finopolis forum on Friday.

"The time when financial institutions were viewed as very conservative - reliable yet very conservative - organizations is certainly far in the past. Financial organizations are institutions whose competitive advantage is above all, people and technologies," she noted.

MOSCOW, November 11. /TASS/: The Russian public’s level of confidence in President Vladimir Putin fell by 0.6 percentage points to 79.5% in the past week, according to a poll published by the All-Russia Public Opinion Research Center on Friday.

"When asked if they trusted Putin, 79.5% of the poll’s participants said yes (a 0.6 percentage point drop from the week before). The share of people who approved of the way the president is handling his job was 75.8% (0.7 percentage points lower than last week)," the pollster said.

MOSCOW, Nov 11 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Friday that Russian forces' withdrawal from Kherson would not change the status of the region, which Moscow has proclaimed part of Russia after moving to annex it from Ukraine.

Russia claimed Kherson and three other Ukrainian regions after holding what it called referendums in September – votes that were denounced by Kyiv and Western governments as illegal and coercive. But on Wednesday, in a major retreat, it announced its forces would pull out of Kherson city in the face of a major Ukrainian counter-offensive.

MOSCOW, November 10. /TASS/: A power line was blown up in the Klimovo District in Russia’s Bryansk Region, which caused a power outage, Governor Alexander Bogomaz said on his Telegram Channel Thursday, adding that emergency services are working at the scene.

"A 110-kWt power line was blown up in the Klimovo District causing a power outage. Emergency services are working at the scene," Bogomaz said.

He added that all power will be switched to a back-up line until the power line is fully repaired.

MOSCOW, November 10. /TASS/: Sberbank is launching SberPay NFC contactless payment service on Android smartphones in November, Kirill Tsarev, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sberbank, told reporters on the sidelines of the Finopolis forum.

MOSCOW, November 10. /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the Bali summit of the Group of 20 and the Russian delegation will be led by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS on Thursday.

"It was decided that Russia will be represented by Sergey Lavrov at the G20 summit," the Kremlin official said.

Earlier on Thursday, Reuters, citing a source in the Indonesian government, reported that, according to Jakarta, the Russian leader may participate in one of the summit’s sessions in an online format.

MOSCOW, November 9. /TASS/: Global support for the United States’ policy course is on the decline, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday commenting on the results of the US midterm elections.

MOSCOW, November 9. /TASS/: Russia has never refused to conduct negotiations with Ukraine, and it is still ready to hold them taking into account the emerging realities, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a news briefing on Wednesday.

"We are still open to negotiations. We have never refused to have them. We are ready to negotiate, of course, taking into account the realities that are emerging at the moment," she said.

Zakharova criticized Berlin for supplying weapons to Ukraine instead of pushing Kiev towards negotiations.

KHERSON, November 9. /TASS/: The deputy governor of the Kherson Region, Kirill Stremousov, died in a road accident on Wednesday, the press service of the head of the region told media.

"It is true," the press service said.

The circumstances of the incident are not specified.

After the liberation of the Kherson Region, Stremousov became one of its leaders. On September 28, he received a Russian passport.