Russia

MOSCOW, February 11. /TASS/: The North Atlantic Alliance is increasingly interfering in economic cooperation of other countries in the Arctic, Nikolay Korchunov, Ambassador-at-Large for the Russian Foreign Ministry and Russia’s Senior Arctic Official to the Arctic Council, told TASS on Saturday.

MOSCOW (AP) — An uncrewed Russian supply ship docked at the International Space Station has lost cabin pressure, the Russian space corporation reported Saturday, saying the incident doesn’t pose any danger to the station’s crew.

Roscosmos said the hatch between the station and the Progress MS-21 had been locked so the loss of pressure didn’t affect the orbiting outpost.

“The temperature and pressure on board the station are within norms and there is no danger to health and safety of the crew,” it said in a statement.

MOSCOW, February 10. /TASS/: The Bank of Russia decided to retain the key rate at 7.5% per annum at its first meeting this year, the regulator said in its report on Friday.

"On 10 February 2023, the Bank of Russia Board of Directors decided to keep the key rate at 7.50% per annum. Current price growth rates are increasing, remaining moderate in terms of sustainable components. Inflation expectations of households and businesses edged down but remain elevated. Economic activity trends evolve better than the Bank of Russia’s October forecast," the statement said.

MOSCOW, February 10. /TASS/: The United States is prodding the Zelensky regime into committing war crimes with its new military aid package for Ukraine that includes anti-personnel mines, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday.

MOSCOW, February 10. /TASS/: The issue of the possibility of signing a peace treaty with Japan remains closed for Russia for the time being, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a briefing on Friday.

MOSCOW, February 10. /TASS/: The threat to Russia's national security from the Western track will be robustly neutralized and the diplomatic service will do everything necessary to strengthen national sovereignty, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a special meeting on the occasion of Diplomatic Worker's Day on Friday.

Feb 10 (Reuters) - Russian forces likely lost dozens of armoured vehicles in a single, failed attack near the eastern Ukrainian city of Vuhledar, British intelligence said on Friday, as one pro-Russian blogger warned of a "crisis" in troop command.

Vuhledar, a Ukrainian-held bastion at the strategic intersection between the eastern and southern front lines, has seen some of the bloodiest fighting of the war as Russia continues a relentless assault on the eastern front.

MOSCOW, February 9. /TASS/: Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev and International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi have started talks in Moscow that will focus on the establishment of a safety zone around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the Strana Rosatom newspaper reported on Thursday.

"Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev and IAEA head Director General Rafael Grossi have started talks in Moscow. They will focus on the establishment of safety zone around the Zaporozhye NPP," the newspaper said on its Telegram channel.

MOSCOW, February 9. /TASS/: The European Parliament’s decision to set up a "tribunal" on Ukraine is part of a big political game and anti-Russian propaganda, Russian Permanent Representative to the Vienna-based international organizations Mikhail Ulyanov said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 TV channel.

"The European Parliament always makes some kind of bizarre decisions that hardly have anything to do with realpolitik. <…> This is just a part of a larger political game, a propaganda attack on Russia," he said.

MOSCOW, February 9. /TASS/: Russia did not begin hostilities in Ukraine, but it is trying to stop them, as hostilities have been going on since 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with aviation industry representatives Thursday.

"I would like to say it one more time: we did not start any hostilities, we are trying to end them. These hostilities were started by Ukrainian nationalists and those who supported them in 2014, when the coup took place; that is how it all began, the events in Crimea and in Donbass followed after that," the head of state said.