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MOSCOW, January 24. /TASS/. Developments in Venezuela show West's real attitude toward international law, Russian Foreign Ministry's official spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on her Facebook page on Thursday.

"The developments in Venezuela show very well how progressive Western society really treats international law, sovereignty and non-interference into internal affairs of other states, by manually changing the power there [in Venezuela]," Zakharova said.

MOSCOW, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Russian 9M729 land-based cruise missile, contrary to the allegations of the United States, does not fall under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), senior Russian officials said Wednesday.

"Russia has fulfilled and continues to strictly observe the provisions of the treaty and does not allow any violations," said Lt.-Gen. Mikhail Matveyevsky, Chief of the Missile Troops and Artillery Branch of the Russian Armed Forces.

22 Jan 2019; AA: Russian presidential envoy for Afghanistan welcomed on Tuesday contacts between the representatives of the U.S. and the Taliban, local media reported.

Speaking to RIA, a Russian news agency, Zamir Kabulov said Moscow is "positive" about the talks between the two sides regarding the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Kabulov said U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad is expected to visit Moscow in February.

MOSCOW, January 22. /TASS/. All strategic bombers Tupolev-22M3 have been grounded until the end of the probe into the causes of Tuesday’s air crash near Murmansk, a source in the law enforcement has said.

"For now all Tupolev-22M3 have been banned from flying until the causes of today’s crash become clear," the source said.

MOSCOW, January 22. /TASS/. The majority of US political elite does not need any arms control deals over Washington’s wish to ensure the position of a military hegemon, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told International Affairs magazine.

MOSCOW, January 22. /TASS/. Russia’s Aerospace Force has registered the launch of an Israeli target missile over the Mediterranean Sea, the Defense Ministry of Russia said on Tuesday.

"Today, at 07:35 Moscow time, the Aerospace Force’s radio-electronic equipment detected the launch of a target missile over the Mediterranean Sea," the ministry said.

"Specialists of Russia’s National Defense Control Center identified the target as a target missile for tests of the Israeli Air Force’s missile defense system," the ministry said.

MOSCOW, January 23. /TASS/. A perpetrator who tried to break into the cockpit on an Aeroflot flight en route from the Siberian city of Surgut to Moscow did not seem drunk and was behaving adequately, which is why his threats were taken seriously, air hostesses told reporters on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, January 22. /TASS/. Russia’s media watchdog (Roskomnadzor) has unblocked 2.7 mln IP addresses belonging to Amazon, says a statement from the watchdog.

"Roskomnadzor experts have figured out that the Telegram messaging service stopped using those subnets to ensure its functioning a long time ago," the statement reads.

According to the RNS news agency, the Ariston company earlier reported that owners of Ariston water heaters and gas boilers were facing issues using the Ariston Net app for remote control purposes.

MOSCOW, January 21. /TASS/. Russia is considering all possible options of further developing its ties with the Council of Europe, including leaving this organization unless discrimination against Russia’s delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly ends, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said in an interview with TASS.

MOSCOW, January 21. /TASS/. Moscow reserves the right to a tit-for-tat response to the European Union’s decision to include several Russian citizens on the sanctions list in relation to the Skripal case, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated on Monday.

"The accusations against Russia and our citizens with regards to the Skripal case do not withstand criticism," the ministry stressed. "We reserve the right to retaliatory measures in response to this unfriendly act."