Russia

VLADIVOSTOK, October 29. /TASS/: The Project 20380 fourth corvette Rezkiy built for Russia’s Pacific Fleet arrived in Vladivostok for outfitting, mooring and shipbuilders’ sea trials, Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Sergei Avakyants told reporters on Friday.

MOSCOW, October 29. /TASS/: The court announced the first verdict in the case over a fire at the Zimnyaya Vishnya (Winter Cherry) shopping mall in Kemerovo where on March 25, 2018, some 60 people were killed, including 37 children. Eight defendants were sentenced to actual jail terms.

MOSCOW, October 28. /TASS/: Moscow is concerned about tragic developments in southeastern Ukraine and does not rule out that the situation will deteriorate further, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Thursday, commenting on reports about the Ukrainian military's offensive operations and attempt to seize the Staromaryevka settlement located on the line of contact with the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).

MOSCOW, October 28. /TASS/: The question of Russia's recognition of the interim Taliban government in Afghanistan (the movement is outlawed in Russia) is premature at the moment, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a news briefing on Thursday.

"At the moment raising the question of Russia's official recognition of the new Afghan authorities would be premature," she said.

MOSCOW, October 28. /TASS/: Russia can reach the carbon-neutral status by 2060 unless complicating factors like new ‘all-encompassing sanctions’ emerge, special envoy of the Russian President on environmental matters, ecology and transport Sergey Ivanov told TASS on Thursday.

MOSCOW, October 28. /TASS/: The conflict in southeastern Ukraine cannot be settled by military means and the attempts to solve this problem with the use of force will have most deplorable and incalculable consequences, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a briefing on Thursday.

MOSCOW, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- Russia and the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed on Thursday to step up cooperation to build "a peaceful, stable and sustainable region."

"We all support the expansion of equal and mutually beneficial cooperation in the vast Asia-Pacific space," Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the fourth Russia-ASEAN summit via video link.

VILYUCHINSK/ Kamchatka/, October 27. /TASS/: The submarine forces of Russia’s Pacific Fleet will be bolstered with four new ships, including two improved Borei-A-class and two Yasen-M-class nuclear-powered submarines, Chief of Staff of the Pacific Fleet's Submarine Force Command Rear Admiral Arkady Navarsky told the press Wednesday.

MOSCOW, October 27. /TASS/: Russia in contact with Donbass representatives is probing into reports Ukraine has used a Turkish drone Bayraktar in Donbass, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a news conference on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, October 27. /TASS/: France’s military doctrine on counteracting information attacks has raised serious alarm bells in Moscow because it is a declaration of militarizing the information space, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel.