Bank of Russia lowers dollar rate on December 12 to 90.98 rubles

A similar statement was made by a spokesperson for the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence in early September

Yury Ushakov recalled that Anatoly Antonov had worked in Washington for quite a while

According to Pietro Barabaschi, ITER is proud to have Russia involved, and will not change its policy of cooperation

"For a variety of reasons" UNIFIL and the Lebanese armed forces have been failing "to prevent Hezbollah from sitting in those areas just over the border from Israel and launching rocket strikes and other attacks against Israel.", US Department of State Spokesperson said

Sports include eagle hunting, bone throwing and kok-boru, a Central Asian form of polo in which two teams battle for control of a decapitated goat carcass

In Stavros Atlamazoglou opinion, now the Ukrainian military will have to ensure that the Russian forces don’t take advantage of the fall of Ugledar "and create an operational breakthrough in the wider area"

The ministry emphasized that the Ukrainian troops tried to literally knock people out of the town

"We will choose the exact location and the way of the response," the Jewish state’s Permanent Representative to the UN Danny Danon has told

"Any targeting of employees of nuclear power plants would constitute a blatant violation of this pillar fundamental for overall nuclear safety and security," Rafael Grossi said

The leaders will discuss issues of the normalization of relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Yury Ushakov said

US Republican presidential candidate also criticized the government’s post disaster response in certain US states, most notably North Carolina

Levan Khabeishvili is a chairman of the party called United National Movement

Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicted more than 410 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed two enemy ammunition depots in its area of responsibility over the past day, the Defense Ministry reported

Abdullah Agar said that Israel has received clear reasons for a strike on Iran together with the US, which until now "supported Israel only in the context of the principles and concepts of defense"

Members of the Commonwealth are states that have acceded to the CIS Charter within one year of its adoption

The settlement of Rosh HaNikra is located near the Mediterranean coast on the very border with Lebanon

"After determining and confirming exact coordinates of the enemy’s location, a decision was made to deliver a strike at the target," the Russian Defense Ministry reported

The streaks, being yellow and reddish in color, trail the Earth, so they enter the atmosphere at a low speed of around 20 km per second

According to spokesman for Ukraine’s 15th Kara-Dag brigade of operational assignment at the National Guard of Ukraine Vitaly Milovidov, the Russian military has intensified the suppression of Ukrainian firing positions

According to the Kremlin aide, the leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and a number of other countries were invited to take part in the forum

Slovakia, as Fico noted, is interested in continuing intergovernmental consultations with Ukraine

Ukraine lost up to 755 troops from operations of the battlegroup South over the past day

Top stories from the Russian press on Monday, October 7th

US Vice President also said she would not discuss Ukraine with Russian President Vladimir Putin without Kiev’s participation

Four violations of the deconfliction protocols of December 9, 2019 linked with the flights by the US-led coalition unmanned aerial vehicles were reported in Syria in the past day

These munitions in the amount of 3,800 shells were supplied to Ukraine in September 2023 under a military assistance package, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov pointed out

The authors of the bill argue that Iran’s Security Council should be in charge of considering applications to join the Pact of Resistance

The Russian President turns 72

According to Kazem Jalali, the behavior of Western countries is "surprising" in this context

At a meeting in Kiev on September 11, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky did not make any decisions regarding the authorization for Ukraine to strike targets inside Russia with US-supplied weapons

Currently, Commonwealth of Independent States brings together 11 post-Soviet countries, while two states have effectively suspended their work and cooperation within the CIS - Moldova and Ukraine

Marshal played a decisive role in organizing the operations carried out on section of the Soviet-German frontline in Slovakia, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said

Another round of escalation flared up in the region following the launch of Israel’s Operation Northern Arrows in Lebanon on September 23

"While the investigation into this sabotage is ongoing in the West, "its course gives no hope that the real culprits behind the incident will ever be punished," Sergey Naryshkin stressed

Top stories from the Russian press on Thursday, October 3rd

Israel’s warplanes attacked Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley area in the early hours of Monday, striking weapons storage facilities, military infrastructure sites, and one launcher

Dwelling on the government’s foreign policy plans for the next four years, Irakli Kobakhidze cited resetting relations with the United States and the European Union as "the most important national ask"

Anatoly Antonov served as Russia’s ambassador to the United States for the past seven years

"For our part, we expect that the DPR will be liberated in the foreseeable future as part of efforts to achieve the goals set by the Russian president," Denis Pushilin noted

Flights have been operating normally since 11:00 p.m. local time

The Lebanon 24 news portal said ground targets for Israeli strikes included military intelligence headquarters and ammunition depots

The drone’s serial deliveries to the troops are due to begin from 2024

Having received confirmation from intelligence about the destruction of personnel and a stronghold of the Ukrainian armed forces, the crew safely returned to the airfield of departure

Mirra Andreeva also won a silver medal at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris in women’s doubles (playing in pairs with Russia’s Diana Shnaider)

The yuan ticked up by 0.47% to 13.51 rubles over the day

"We will hold trilateral commission’s meeting when preparing for the second reading in order to analyze these priorities in detail," Anton Siluanov noted

Hezbollah also shelled the settlements of Adamit, Hanita and Shlomi in Western Galilee from its multiple rocket launchers in the reported period

All those who took part in storming this stronghold will be nominated for state decorations

Yelena Smirnova was 41

A 4.5-magnitude earthquake was recorded in Iran’s province of Semnan southeast of the capital Tehran on October 5

Russian Foreign Ministe adopted a number of joint statements, including on the principles of cooperation in ensuring security in Eurasia, the unacceptability of using unilateral restrictive measures in international relations

The document was supported by 120 countries, while ten abstained and 50 voted against it

Specifically, eastbound shipments of coal for exports in January - September 2024 stood at 39.9 mln metric tons (+3.8% annually) for Kuzbass, 4.9 mln metric tons (+10.3%) for Khakassia

The court also ordered 142,000 hryvnias ($3,400) confiscated from the defendant and paid to the Russian state

An uneasy situation has also emerged for Ukrainian troops in the neighboring community of Gornyak, the defense circles said

The top Russian diplomat drew attention to the fact that "the degradation of the military and political situation caused by the course of the collective West towards undermining the sovereign development of the continent's leading powers cannot in itself be acceptable to responsible Eurasian states"

According to Sergey Naryshkin, Ukrainian officers stationed at the Al-Tanf US military base in Syria work out ways how to deliver attacks on Russian servicemen on duty in Syria

The Nobel Committee said that microRNAs are "fundamentally important for how organisms develop and function"

According to Alexander Novak, Russia and the Turkish side are assessing how this situation will impact the overall project timeline

"We also continue to assess that China is not seeking to influence the presidential election," the spokesperson said

In that case, Russian President Vladimir Putin would have achieved his goals, the EU top diplomat said

"The document initialed in Istanbul in late March 2022 was never signed by Zelensky at the insistence of his Western supervisors, in particular, the then British prime minister," the top Russian diplomat said

Over the past 75 years, our relations have survived the tests of the difficulties of the international situation and have always maintained vitality and energy

Helicopters carried out strikes against Ukrainian manpower and armored vehicles

When we launched an operation in Lebanon a week ago - after a whole year of diplomatic efforts and negotiations - we immediately discovered the same underground depots and tunnels designed for an attack on Israel

WTI futures with settlements in November gain 3.79% and hit $77.2 per barrel at the same time

I can't confirm that report today, White House Press Secretary said

Top stories from the Russian press on Friday, October 4th

According to the source, Sinwar sent a number of messages to HAMAS mediators in Qatar recently

Ugledar was part of a network of large Ukrainian army strongholds in the south Donetsk frontline area

The newspaper’s sources said the White House "had to make hard calls" against the backdrop of tensions in the Middle East, which have "complicated US efforts to build relationships in some other parts of the world."

The statement reaffirms the readiness of the Commonwealth countries "to make a practical contribution to the creation of an architecture of equal and indivisible security in Eurasia, sustainable and long-term stabilization of the military and political situation, as well as the settlement of existing regional conflicts and the prevention of new ones"

According to CNN, the US has made it clear that it opposes attacks on Iran's nuclear infrastructure

Investments in the project escalated from about 97 bln to 116 bln rubles in the course of further adjustment of process parameters, a Severstal spokesperson told TASS

During one of these clashes, fighter eliminated two Ukrainian soldiers in hand-to-hand combat

Lebanese TV channel also reported earlier that on October 6, Hezbollah fighters tried to enter the territory of the Israeli state through an underground tunnel system in the Kibbutz Doviv area

The International Energy Agency earlier highlighted the significant risk for the full stop of Russian gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine after 2024, because the gas transit contract between the two countries expires at the turn of this year

Gennady Gatilov emphasized that "on October 7, 2023, the world was shaken by a horrifying tragedy in Israel, which claimed the lives of nearly 1,200 people and shattered thousands of human fates"

This was Monday’s third shelling attack on central Israel

Further to the loss of transit fees, the pipeline shutdown could "even threaten Ukraine’s own gas supply if its pipeline infrastructure becomes a target," Director of the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies Mario Holzner said

Over the day, the enemy lost more than 150 servicemen, three armored fighting vehicles, as well as two artillery pieces, four mortars and two vehicles

"Yelena Smirnova drowned at the Ironman competition in Barcelona," Natalya Smirnova said

The Houthis greeted Hamas and Hezbollah fighters on the anniversary of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel and promised to continue delivering strikes on Israel and hampering the passage of Israel-linked ships across the Red Sea until Tel Aviv "lifts blockade of the Gaza Strip and ends its aggression against Lebanon"

The weapons and ammunition have been handed over to the Russian army for further use

According to Ugandan Armed Forces Commander Muhoozi Kainerugaba, William Popp engaged in activities that are inconsistent with his diplomatic status

"The perpetrators of these and other crimes against Russian citizens will be identified and won’t avoid being duly punished," Maria Zakharova noted

Over the past day, 9,395 people from Lebanon crossed the Syrian Arab Republic’s border via the checkpoints of Al-Arida, Al-Jawasiyeh, Al-Dabousiyah, Jisr Qamar and Jdaidet Yabous

While examining militant hideouts, struck by the Russian Aerospace Forces since September 23, 2024, a total of 16 caches with US-made weapons were found

The Russian embassy in the United States told TASS on October 5 that Anatoly Antonov had completed his mission as Russia’s ambassador to Washington

Eyewitnesses confirm the large presence of Poles in the area

Hungarian Prime Minister also praised Italian deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini, saying that in Hungary he was seen as a hero for securing Italy's borders and protecting Europe

"It has been an honor to represent NASA, living and working aboard our magnificent International Space Station for the past six months," Dyson said

It is reported that the current escalation has claimed the lives of more than 220 UNRWA employees

The top Russian diplomat said that "the issue of the day should be ending the conflict, not establishing a ceasefire"

"It is crucial to prioritize and establish a systematic approach to exchanging information, including urgent, critical, and operational data, on the terrorist aspirations of the collective West and the Kiev regime against the interests of our countries and our community as a whole," Sergey Naryshkin said

Traffic was suspended on two streets in downtown Feodosia

Battlegroup Center units continued advancing deep into the enemy’s defenses

According to the publication, "Russian assets worth more than half a billion euros were apparently released with the approval of the ministry"

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 after militants from the Gaza Strip-based radical Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise incursion on Israeli territory