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The Foreign Ministers of Russia and Japan held telephone talks and discussed the belonging of the Kuriles , during which they discussed a peace treaty regarding the ownership of the Kuril Islands. TASS writes about this. The parties “confirmed their intention to continue the dialogue” in order to conclude peace. “The ministers exchanged views, stressing the intention to develop Japanese-Russian relations in many areas, including in the field of politics, culture and so on, as well as in the direction of concluding a peace treaty,” the agency quotes the press service of the Japanese minister. Due to a dispute over the ownership of the southern part of the Kuriles, Moscow and Tokyo cannot sign a peace treaty following World War II. Japan regards Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and the Habomai group of islands as their “northern territories”. In turn, Russia does not recognize the very fact of the territorial dispute.

Political strategist Bashirov: a peaceful settlement of the situation with Donbass is still possible The Minsk agreements, the political strategist Marat Bashirov is sure. In a conversation with Lenta.ru, he added that Kiev is likely to sabotage the agreements until it receives a direct command from Washington. Kiev is sabotaging its obligations under the Minsk agreements, which leads to the disruption of settlement negotiations conflict in Donbass in any format, and calls for a violent scenario. This was previously stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. Kiev understands the risks Bashirov is sure: despite the general strengthening of military rhetoric, large-scale clashes between Russia and Ukraine should not be expected – Kiev understands that this will not lead to anything good. Regular drone attacks are likely to continue, however. “Kiev will sabotage all the Minsk agreements until it receives a direct command from Washington to

Latvian Minister of Health Pavluts announced vaccination of 70% of the adult population percent of the adult population, reports TASS. “Yesterday we achieved the goal set in the [Latvian] vaccination plan, and the EU goal to vaccinate at least 70 percent of the adult population,” Pavluts said. 70.28 percent of residents aged 12 and over were fully vaccinated, explained the head of the Ministry of Health. “We are approaching the average vaccination coverage of the entire EU population (70.1 percent), now we have 66.67 percent,” added Pavluts. Earlier, the Latvian authorities announced that from December 6, all workers in a country who has possible contact with other people at work will be required to be tested for the presence of antigens to COVID-19 twice a week, regardless of the fact of vaccination. In eight weeks, the state will have to spend 14-15 million euros for these purposes.

Executive Director Shaninka Kryuchkova testified against Rector Zuev Executive Director of Shaninka – Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences) (MVSES Kryuchkova began to cooperate with the investigation and was placed under house arrest. This is reported by “Interfax” with reference to a source in the investigating authorities. According to him, Kryuchkova pleaded guilty and told about cashing the stolen money. In addition, she testified against other defendants in the fraud case, including the rector Sergei Zuev. The executive director was released from the pre-trial detention center under house arrest. Earlier it was reported that the rector Shaninka was placed in the medical unit of the SIZO “Matrosskaya Tishina”. He was accused of embezzling 21 million rubles allocated from the budget for the federal project “Teacher of the Year” of the national project “Education.” In 2020, the parties terminated them by mutual agreement. At that time, 21 million rubles

Foreign Ministry: Western countries block the investigation of the Ryanair incident in Belarus postponed its consideration for a year, said the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova. This was reported by the Lenta.ru correspondent. “Minsk appealed to ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization – approx.“ Lenta.ru ”) with a request for an early consideration of this issue , but a number of countries are trying to postpone this whole story, the discussion of this uncomfortable topic for them into a distant box. With their submission, the consideration was postponed to the next session, which will be held in 2022, “- said Zakharova. Related materials 00:02 – 26 May Reached heaven. The West imposes sanctions against Belarus due to the arrest of the founder of NEXTA. How does this threaten Russia? 00:01 – May 28 “He is an incredibly skillful manipulator.” How can Russia take advantage of Lukashenko's final

“Kommersant”: apartments or studios at a price much lower than the market price may turn out to be illegal Russians' interest in suspiciously cheap housing. Experts interviewed by Kommersant warned about the risks when buying apartments at prices much lower than the market ones. According to the Institute for Urban Economics, an average family of three will need to save 4.5 years to buy an apartment in the capital, much longer than it can be done in other regions of Russia. Meanwhile, only 41.2 percent of Muscovites found affordable housing. Such indicators make budgetary, but often illegal, projects from small developers popular. We are talking about old business centers, apartments or studios in private houses and on the basement floors of buildings converted into apartments. Developers offer such housing at too attractive a price – several times cheaper than apartments in ordinary new buildings. A studio with an area of

The courier company CDEK complained about problems with goods at the border with Finland Employees of the automobile customs point at the Russian-Finnish border for more than a month inspect goods, including orders from online stores, told “Lente.ru” in the courier company CDEK. Due to the fact that the customs took up arms against goods from Finland, the delivery services are faced with serious material losses and reputational losses, they pointed out there. Buyers have to wait longer for already paid orders. The company said that they have been receiving many complaints about a significant increase in the delivery time of parcels from Finland for several weeks. According to CDEK, the problems are related to the situation at the border. Goods from Finland travel through the Torfyanovka international automobile checkpoint (MAPP) in the Vyborg district of the Leningrad region. Cars delivering express orders for buyers have been repeatedly detained for

State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Rashkin said that he would buy a moose cow “to restore the population” who found the carcass of a dead animal, said that he had agreed to buy a moose cow. The State Duma meeting is broadcast on the website of the lower house of parliament. He will acquire an animal in the Yaroslavl region “of the appropriate age to restore the population.” Prosecutor General of Russia on the deprivation of parliamentary immunity Valery Rashkin, who is suspected of illegal hunting elk. The deputy himself said that he was hunting in the forest illegally. According to him, he did not check if there are hunting permits. In addition, Rashkin pleaded morally guilty in this situation. A Communist Party deputy confessed to killing an elk, the carcass of which was found by police in his car. In a video message,

“112”: a Mi-2 helicopter that took off for inspection of an oil well burned down in Khanty-Mansiysk inspection of the oil well by a Mi-2 helicopter, no one was injured as a result of the incident, Telegram-channel 112 reports. The helicopter followed the route Langepas – Pokachineftegaz field. There were one crew member and two passengers on board.