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10 Feb in 12:00 The U.S. Consulate General in the Far Eastern Russian city of Vladivostok can be closed by mid-spring 2021, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s representative in Vladivostok, Andrei Brovarets, said. "This [the Consulate General’s closure] was a unilateral decision of the United States, which can be implemented in its final form by mid-spring 2021, with all formalities observed," TASS cited him as saying. "On a personal note, I can only express hope that the new U.S. president’s administration will review it, especially because this decision runs counter to general objective t...

© Yuri Smityuk/TASS VLADIVOSTOK, February 10. /TASS/. The US Consulate General in the Far Eastern Russian city of Vladivostok can be closed by mid-spring 2021, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s representative in Vladivostok, Andrei Brovarets, said. "This [the Consulate General’s closure] was a unilateral decision of the United States, which can be implemented in its final form by mid-spring 2021, with all formalities observed," he said. "On a personal note, I can only express hope that the new US president’s administration will review it, especially because this decision runs counter to...

 January 22, 2021: Chinese warship construction continues at a rapid pace, building large numbers of destroyers and amphibious (LPS and LHD) assault ships. These ships are also world class in terms of technology and design. To accomplish this China has worked for over a decade building incrementally better models of these ships. Satellite photos of their shipyards plus activities of research facilities and capabilities indicate a serious effort to move ahead of Western navy technology during the 2020s. That means transition to all electric drive ships and se...

Russia-US visa war was started by Washington — Russian embassy Russia has repeatedly called on Washington "to fully normalize our relations in terms of consular and visa issues" The Russian embassy in Washington© AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta WASHINGTON, December 26. /TASS/. It was the United States who started a ‘visa war’ with Russia and imposed the practice of personal visa exchanges, the Russian embassy in Washington said on its Facebook page, commenting on US media reports about problems that US diplomatic missions are facing in Russia. "We would like to remind once again that...

Friday’s launch will be the first and only one from Vostochny this year © Yuri Smityuk/TASS MOSCOW, December 18. /TASS/. The first fully commercial launch from the Vostochny space center in Russia’s Far East will take place on Friday, when a Soyuz-2.1b rocket with 38 OneWeb satellites will blast off at approximately 15:26 Moscow time. The Fregat booster and the satellites are expected to separate from the rocket approximately ten minutes after the launch. Read also The satellites will separate from the booster in nine stages, four spacecraft at a time. The overall mission time is es...