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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine was 91.6% effective in preventing people from developing COVID-19, according to peer-reviewed results from its late-stage clinical trial published in The Lancent international medical journal on Tuesday.

Scientists said the Phase III trial results meant the world had another effective weapon to fight the deadly pandemic and justified to some extent Moscow’s decision to roll out the vaccine before final data had been released.

MOSCOW, February 1. /TASS/: The Baltic Fleet’s corvette Stoiky and the tanker Kola passed through the Suez Canal and entered the Red Sea in their long-distance deployment, the Fleet’s press office reported on Monday.

"The ships have transited the Suez Canal, entered the Red Sea and set their course for the designated point in the Gulf of Aden where they will continue accomplishing assigned missions," the press office said in a statement.

GORKI, February 1. /TASS/: Integration within the framework of the Union State is mutually beneficial, though it is necessary to normalize the situation inside Belarus first, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev told Russian mass media in an interview.

MOSCOW, February 1. /TASS/: Foreign customers display high interest in the export version of Russia’s Su-57E fifth-generation fighter, Rostec Director for International Cooperation and Regional Policy Viktor Kladov told TASS on Monday.

The full-size model of the Su-57E fighter will be demonstrated at the Aero India 2021 aerospace show that will run in the Indian city of Bangalore on February 3-5, he specified.

GORKI, February 1. /TASS/: It is beneficial for Ukraine to pin all its failures and miscalculations on tense relations with Russia, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev believes.

"It is more beneficial for [Ukraine] to maintain the situation in tension, do nothing about it, and use this mobilization trend to explain all miscalculations and failures inside their country," he told Russian media Monday.

According to Medvedev it is always more convenient to blame one’s failings on some external effect.

MOSCOW, February 1. /TASS/: The Anti-Corruption Foundation (non-profit organization recognized as foreign agent in Russia) created by Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny has reaffirmed its foreign agent status by calling on US President Joe Biden to introduce sanctions against several dozens of Russian businessmen and politicians, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

"As for this foundation and all these letters and calls, the foundation de jure and de facto demonstrated its status of foreign agent," the Kremlin spokesman stressed.

MOSCOW (AP) — Chanting slogans against President Vladimir Putin, tens of thousands took to the streets Sunday across Russia to demand the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, keeping up nationwide protests that have rattled the Kremlin. More than 5,100 people were detained by police, according to a monitoring group, and some were beaten.

MOSCOW, January 31. /TASS/: US President Joseph Biden will make an address to outline his vision of the US foreign policy on Monday, NBC reported on Sunday citing a source in the US administration.

According to the TV channel, the address will be made during the previously announced visit to the US Department of State, where Biden is to meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

MOSCOW, January 31. /TASS/: Russia confirmed 18,359 new coronavirus cases in the past day and the overall caseload in the country reached 3,850,439, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Sunday.

The average coronavirus growth rate reached 0.48%. The lowest growth rates in the past day were registered in the Tuva Republic (0.09%), the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region, the Jewish Autonomous Region and the Altai Republic (0.2%).

MOSCOW, January 31. /TASS/: Nearly 2,000 people, including journalists, took part in an unauthorized rally in downtown Moscow on January 31, the Main Department of the Russian Interior Ministry told reporters on Sunday.

"In Moscow, there was an unauthorized public event, in which nearly 2,000 people took part as of 14:30 Moscow Time, including media representatives," the press service said.