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SEVASTOPOL, September 24. /TASS/: The crews of the Black Sea Fleet’s warships fired anti-aircraft missile and artillery guns against enemy aerial and naval targets during drills for protecting maritime facilities, the Fleet’s press office reported on Friday.

MOSCOW, September 24. /TASS/: The Russian Federation cannot interfere in the US Justice Department’s tax case against Novatek corporate executive Mark Gyetvay, but it is ready to provide diplomatic assistance to him as a Russian citizen, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday.

MOSCOW, September 24. /TASS/: Pipeline gas supplies from Russia to Europe in 2021 reached historic highs, Gazprom increased gas production year-on-year by 18.4%. The accusations that Gazprom is not supplying gas to Europe are absurd, Head of Contract Structuring and Price Formation Directorate for Gazprom Export Sergey Komlev said in his article for Gazprom corporate magazine.

MOSCOW, September 24. /TASS/: The adoption of new US sanctions against Russia would be the worst possible scenario for relations between the two countries. Moreover, it would wipe out "the spirit of Geneva," Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday, commenting on the House of Representatives' move to pass a defense policy bill that includes new restrictions against Moscow.

MOSCOW, September 24. /TASS/: The United Russia political party gained 324 seats in the new State Duma, Central Election Commission head Ella Pamfilova announced Friday, adding that a total of five parties and five self-nominees passed to the lower chamber.

MOSCOW, September 23. /TASS/: An amendment backed by the US House of Representatives that would ban American citizens from buying or selling newly-issued Russian sovereign debt on primary and secondary markets, has not yet taken its final form, which is why it is too early to provide any remarks on it, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday.

MOSCOW, September 23. /TASS/: Russia's Health Ministry has received from the Gamaleya Center a package of documents required for the registration of its vaccine against the novel coronavirus, which is meant especially for teenagers, the Health Minister's aide Alexei Kuznetsov told TASS on Thursday.

MOSCOW, September 23. /TASS/: The future Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS) will comprise seven modules and a short-arm centrifuge, according to the specifications of a research project on preparations for a flight to the Moon posted by the federal space agency Roscosmos on the government’s procurement website on Thursday.

"The work on the project of specifications for an assembly module, a versatile nodal module, a laboratory module, a freely flying module, a transformable module, a core unit, an airlock module and a short-radius centrifuge," the document says.

MOSCOW, September 23. /TASS/: Russia’s Defense Ministry has rejected Estonia’s claims that a Russian A-50 aircraft intruded into the Baltic republic’s airspace.

"On September 22, the crew of an A-50 plane of the Aerospace Force was performing a scheduled flight from an airfield in the Kaliningrad Region to its permanent base. The flight proceeded along the agreed route with the plane’s transponder turned on. The aircraft’s crew was in contact with Estonian air controllers who did not present any complaints to the Russian crew," the ministry told reporters.

MOSCOW, Sept 23 (Reuters) - A coalition of defeated parliamentary candidates in Moscow who allege they were cheated of victory in a parliamentary election by a crooked online voting system said on Thursday they would try to overturn the results via lawsuits and public pressure.

Some of the defeated candidates, most of whom are Communists, have called on voters to gather in Moscow on Saturday after eight parliamentary seats where the Communists had been ahead suddenly flipped to the ruling United Russia party once online voting results were added in.