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MOSCOW, July 31. /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin has confirmed in a phone call with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Moscow will continue provide assistance to Ankara in extinguishing forest fires, the Kremlin press service said on Saturday.

MOSCOW, July 31. /TASS/: Moscow has sent a note to Kiev, demanding that Ukraine honor its commitments to protect war memorials due to plans to destroy a replica of the Order of the Patriotic War on the Field of Mars in Lvov, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

MOSCOW, July 31 (Reuters) - The head of Russia's Roscosmos space agency said on Saturday that pressure in a Russian service module on the International Space Station had dropped as a result of an air leak.

Pressure had fallen over a two-week period before a Russian research module, the Nauka, threw the station out of control when its engines fired shortly after docking on Thursday, but Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin said the two events were not linked.

MOSCOW, July 30. /TASS/: Russia is closely monitoring the wildfire situation in Turkey and is in constant touch with the country’s authorities, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told journalists on Friday.

"We are closely monitoring the situation. The Russian Federation, as you know, provided assistance to the Turkish authorities in order to help them cope with this disaster. Our equipment is deployed there, including Be-200 planes. We are in constant touch with the Turkish government," he said.

KAZAN, July 30. /TASS/: More than 20 agreements have been signed at the platform of the international economic summit ‘Russia — Islamic world: KazanSummit 2021’ that is taking place from July 28 to 30 in Russia's Kazan.

MOSCOW, July 30. /TASS/: The additional measures to strengthen and control the ceasefire in Donbass, signed on July 21, 2020, are the most effective security agreement in the region, but they could become more effective if the Donbass republics are recognized as a party to the conflict. This conclusion is contained in the summary of an expert study carried out by the Institute of Peacekeeping Initiatives and Conflict Studies, a non-profit organization, which included 24 foreign policy specialists from the UK, Australia, Russia, and Ukraine among them.

MOSCOW, July 30 (Reuters) - Belarus would not hesitate to invite Russian troops if needed, President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday, although he said there was no need for them now.

Russia has maintained close military and economic ties with its ally Belarus, even as Western countries have ostracised the country since Lukashenko cracked down on mass protests following a contested presidential election last year.

MOSCOW, July 29. /TASS/: Russia is interested in deepening cooperation with the Islamic world, Federation Council (the upper house of parliament) Chairperson Valentina Matviyenko said in a video address to the participants in the 12th International Economic Summit dubbed "Russia-Islamic World: KazanSummit 2021."

MOSCOW, July 29. /TASS/: The Magistrates' Court in Moscow has fined Google 3 mln rubles ($40,975) for refusing to localize its users’ data in Russia, a representative of the court’s press service told TASS.

KOROLYOV /Moscow Region/, July 29. /TASS/: Russia’s Nauka (Science) multi-purpose laboratory module docked to the nadir port of the Zvezda service module of the International Space Station (ISS), a TASS correspondent reports from Mission Control near Moscow where the docking is being broadcast live.

The latest Russian research module docked in the automatic mode. The docking process was controlled by Mission Control specialists and Russian cosmonauts aboard the space station.