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MOSCOW, Aug 13 (Reuters) - A Russian warship on Sunday fired warning shots at a cargo ship in the southwestern Black Sea as it made its way northwards, the first time Russia has fired on merchant shipping beyond Ukraine since exiting a landmark UN-brokered grain deal last month.

Russia in July halted participation in the Black Sea grain deal that allowed Ukraine to export agricultural produce via the Black Sea and Moscow cautioned that it deemed all ships heading to Ukrainian waters to be potentially carrying weapons.

MOSCOW, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Russia on Sunday switched on the scientific instruments aboard its lunar lander and scientists began processing its first data as the space craft sped towards the moon in a bid to be first to find ice on the Earth's only natural satellite.

The Russian Luna-25 mission, the first since 1976, is racing against India, which launched its Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander last month, to complete a soft landing on the moon's south pole where scientists believe there are pockets of water ice.

MOSCOW, August 11. /TASS/: Commodity prices, including oil prices, will fall as a result of deglobalization, but Russia's GDP will not fall below 2020 levels even under a risky scenario, the Bank of Russia reported on Friday.

By 2026, the Bank of Russia intends to achieve 1.5-2.5% GDP growth and bring the key rate to a long-term neutral range of 5.5-6.5%.

MOSCOW, August 11. /TASS/: Russia is taking all necessary measures to guarantee national security but is firmly committed to the principle of the inadmissibility of a nuclear war, the Russian foreign ministry said on Friday, commenting on the decisions made by Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States to not target strategic nuclear missiles.

MOSCOW, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Russia's air defense system has downed a drone that attempted to fly over Moscow, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday.

"This afternoon, an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack with an unmanned aerial vehicle on a facility in Moscow was thwarted," the ministry said in a statement.

The unmanned aerial vehicle was downed by means of electronic equipment and crashed in a forest area in the west of the capital without casualties and damage on the ground, according to the ministry.

MOSCOW, August 10. /TASS/: Russian assault teams improved their forward edge positions in the Kupyansk area and repelled seven Ukrainian counter-attacks over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported on Thursday.

MOSCOW, August 10. /TASS/: Manufacturers will present Su-57 and Su-35 fighter jets with the latest guided missiles, artillery ammunition and Raptor sniper system at the Army-2023 forum, Rosoboronexport has told the media.

At the Army 2023 show manufacturers will show the latest selections available from the Russian defense industry: armored vehicle 3-STS Akhmat, fighters Su-57 and Su-35 with the latest guided weapons, artillery ammunition and sniper complex Raptor," the company said.

MOSCOW, August 10. /TASS/: The EU obsessively attempts to sow discord in Russia's relations with other CIS countries, but Moscow is confident in its neighbors and that the EU's efforts will not affect cooperation with them, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin said in an interview with TASS.

MOSCOW, Aug 10 (NNN-TASS) – The Luna-25 lunar lander mission, set to be launched tomorrow, will film its landing on the moon, so as to enable scientists to model the terrain and study lunar structure through regolith movement, Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography (MIIGAiK) said, yesterday.

MOSCOW, Aug 10 (Reuters) - In Vladimir Putin's Russia, the Kremlin even writes the history textbooks.

Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky has published four history textbooks for 16- to 18-year-old schoolchildren giving a completely revised interpretation of the fall of the Soviet Union, the Putin era and the causes of the Ukraine war.