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Lawmaker proposes to unblock Twitter in Russia

MOSCOW, April 10. /TASS/: Anton Gorelkin, deputy head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, suggested looking into the possibility of unblocking Twitter in Russia after the social network reinstated the accounts of a number of Russian state agencies.

On Friday, Twitter once again restored the accounts of the Kremlin, the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Defense Ministry and other ministries, as well as Russian embassies abroad.

Russian air defenses destroy 11 combat drones in Ukraine operation, top brass reports

MOSCOW, April 10. /TASS/: Russian air defense forces intercepted two rockets of the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system and destroyed 11 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the past day during the special military operation in Ukraine, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported on Monday.

Russia: State Duma committee backs life sentence for treason, tougher sanctions for terrorism

MOSCOW, April 10. /TASS/:  The Russian State Duma Committee on State Building and Legislation recommended on Monday that the lower house of parliament pass a bill containing legislative amendments, in the second reading, aimed at toughening liability for terrorism and instituting life imprisonment for the crime of treason.

Belarus leader says he wants guarantees that Russia will defend his country if it is attacked

MOSCOW, April 10 (Reuters) - Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, told Russia's defence minister on Monday that he wanted guarantees that Moscow would defend his country if it was attacked, the state-owned BelTA news agency reported.

BelTA cited Lukashenko as making the remarks to Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu during a meeting in the Belarusian capital Minsk.

Russia: Ukraine to cease to exist because it is not needed to anyone, Medvedev says

MOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/: Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev believes that no-one in the world needs Ukraine, therefore it will cease to exist, he said in his post on social media Saturday.

The post, titled "Why Ukraine will cease to exist? Because nobody needs it," is divided into six parts, in which Medvedev explains why the Ukrainian state is not needed to Europe, the US, Africa, Latin America, Asia, Russia and, finally, Ukrainian people themselves.

Russia: Kremlin spokesman calls Macron’s remarks on nuclear weapons a criticism of Washington

MOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/: By speaking against deployment of nuclear weapons beyond national territory, French President Emmanuel Macron effectively criticized the US policy, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview, partially uploaded to journalist Pavel Zarubin’s Telegram channel.

"It has been a long time since we’ve heard such fierce criticism towards the United States of American from the President of France," the spokesman noted ironically, commenting on Macron’s remarks.

West unable to condemn terror attack against Russian war blogger — diplomat

MOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/: Western countries could not bring themselves to condemn the terror attack on war reporter Vladlen Tatarsky [real name: Maxim Fomin], Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel on Saturday.

"Over six days that elapsed since the moment of the blast in that St. Petersburg cafe, not a single Western ‘champion’ of freedom of the media and the safety of journalists managed to utter even a word condemning this cruelty, horrendous by any human standards, nor expressed simple compassion for its victims," she noted.

Russia Slams Risky U.S. Biological Research

MOSCOW, Apr 8 (NNN-TASS) – U.S. biological research, which is conducted secretly, is fraught with the risk of virus leakages, the Russian Defence Ministry said, yesterday.

“The United States has never been explicit about how dedicated it is, to ensure research safety in the bio-labs it oversees,” Igor Kirillov, chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defence Forces of the Russian Armed Forces, said during a briefing.

Russia calls on Israel, Palestine to refrain from 'confrontational steps'

07 Apr 2023; MEMO: Russia on Friday called on Israel and Palestine to refrain from "confrontational steps" and to end the "escalation" of violence, reports Anadolu agency.

"We call on the parties involved in the conflict to refrain from confrontational steps, to act in the interests of preventing further escalation, ending violence and restoring a sustainable cease-fire," a Foreign Ministry statement said.

Russian air defenses intercept two US-made HIMARS rockets in Ukraine operation

MOSCOW, April 7. /TASS/: Russian air defense forces intercepted two rockets of the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system and destroyed 11 Ukrainian drones over the past day during the special military operation in Ukraine, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported on Friday.

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