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Ukraine withdraws from Russian space project
Ukrainian and Italian scientists have withdrawn from the Russian Gamma-400 space project, which was planned for launch in 2030, announced by Arkadiy Galper, chief researcher of the Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIA Novosti reports.
The project involves the creation of an astrophysical space observatory to observe the sources of gamma radiation in the universe.
The scientist said that at some point they had a breakdown of relations with their Italian colleagues. It was …
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Fugitive Russian banker posts childhood pictures of Putin's daughters
Sergey Pugachev, the former owner of Mezhprombank, who fled abroad, published childhood photographs of Russian President Vladimir Putin's daughters, which were stored in his personal archive, reported Ilya Shepelin, a journalist of the Dozhd TV channel.
According to the journalist, the pictures were taken in the early 2000s. One of them shows Pugachev's son Alexander together with Katerina and Maria Putin. The pictures have a caption: "Youth friendship is forever!!!" Apparently, some of the …
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Kremlin urges Germany to build factories in Russia
Russia expects to expand cooperation with German businesses and establish joint production of high value-added products in Russian territory, stated Russian Minister of Trade and Industry Denis Manturov during the online conference "Russia and the World in 2021", organized by the Russian-German Chamber of Commerce.
According to the Minister, Germans could begin construction of factories for the auto industry, aviation industry, railway engineering and energy.
German companies were pioneers in …
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A cloud of hydrochloric acid covers Omsk, Russia
The Ob-Irtysh Office for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring has recorded chloro hydrogen in the atmosphere of Omsk, a poisonous gas that forms hydrochloric acid when dissolved in water particles in the air.
The maximum allowable concentration exceeded 10 times, TASS reported, citing the press service of the organization.
The gas was found in the Oktyabrskiy administrative district of the city. The data on air pollution have been handed over to supervisory authorities and regional …
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Putin: former Soviet republics left USSR with ‘Russian lands'
The republics that were part of the USSR "took with them gifts from the Russian people" during the collapse of the Soviet Union, said Russian President Vladimir Putin in a televised interview.
Putin noted that the Union Treaty stipulated the right of the republics to leave the Union, but the procedure was not regulated.
Putin did not specify what kind of gifts were taken. The Russian president also did not specify which republics of the former Soviet Union "took Russia’s lands."
In the same …