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MOSCOW. Dec 21 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the Defense Ministry and the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media to organize citizens' military registration without having to visit military enlistment offices in person and to introduce electronic military draft papers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Dec 21 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the Defense Ministry and the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media to organize citizens' military registration without having to visit military enlistment offices in person and to introduce electronic military draft papers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

YEKATERINBURG. July 11 (Interfax) - Russia's forestry industry needs to modernize in order to increase production of goods with higher added value, including by building modern pulp-and-paper mills, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ALMATY. April 6 (Interfax) - A plant manufacturing office paper in Kazakhstan has suspended operations due to a limited supply of resources from Russia, the state agency Kazinform has reported, citing the plant's press service. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Oct 10 (Interfax) - Nearly three-quarters (73%) of Russians believe electronic documents will completely replace paper ones over the next two decades, the findings of a poll by VCIOM published on its website on Tuesday say. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. May 10 (Interfax) - The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) has long existed only on paper, and its denouncement will bolster Russia's security, State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Leonid Slutsky said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. May 10 (Interfax) - The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) has long existed only on paper, and its denouncement will bolster Russia's security, State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Leonid Slutsky said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BAKU. July 21 (Interfax) - Armenia should follow up its public recognition of Karabakh as being part of Azerbaijan with a signature on a corresponding document, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Sept 26 (Interfax) - Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov has said he does not know whether any employees of the presidential administration have received call-up papers as part of the country's partial mobilization. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Sept 22 (Interfax) - The fact that call-up papers have been given to men detained at protests in Russia does not violate the law, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. July 13 (Interfax) - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov, who oversees the military-industrial complex, might step down and take a job as CEO of state space corporation Roscosmos, business daily Vedomosti reported on Wednesday, citing sources. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Nov 3 (Interfax) - The Kremlin is processing the Novaya Gazeta newspaper's enquiry regarding the Pandora Papers, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Sept 11 (Interfax) - Twelve out of 86 Russian constituent territories, which held elections last weekend, have seen violations, and a total of 1,307 ballot papers have been declared invalid, Russian Central Elections Commission (CEC) Chairperson Ella Pamfilova said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Oct 4 (Interfax) - The Kremlin did not see any credible information on "the wealth of Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle" in the so-called Pandora Papers published recently and views these files as a compilation of unfounded allegations that cannot serve as grounds for any inquiries, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 4 (Interfax) - Russian gas producer Novatek (MOEX: NVTK), which hopes to buy Shell's (SPB: RDS.A) 27.5% stake in the Sakhalin-2 project, has secured President Vladimir Putin's agreement to allow the Anglo-Dutch energy major to get all of the 94.8 billion rubles for its stake and transfer the money out of Russia, national daily Kommersant reported on Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. April 29 (Interfax) - Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom has managed to secure additional financing for the development of Northern Sea Route (NSR) infrastructure, as Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has ordered the allocation of 118 billion rubles in budget funding to 2030 for the construction of another two nuclear icebreakers, national daily Kommersant reported on Friday, citing a list of instructions issued on April 15. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. June 21 (Interfax) - The prime ministers of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) countries identified rules for the operation of the single market for sensitive types of products, stipulating their free circulation in mutual trade as part of approved indicative balances at a Eurasian Intergovernmental Council meeting on Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. June 8 (Interfax) - Sputnix LLC, a firm that is 75% owned by Sistema PJSFC's (MOEX: AFKS) Sitronics Group, has prepared to project to launch 157 small and micro satellites by 2025 for remote earth sensing, navigation and fire monitoring, national daily Kommersant said on Wednesday, citing a representative of Sitronics Group. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KYIV. Oct 18 (Interfax) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he saw nothing new in the media's inquiry into the publication of the so-called Pandora Papers regarding offshore havens. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KYIV. Oct 4 (Interfax) - The National Agency for Corruption Prevention (NACP), when checking the declarations of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukrainian State Security Service (SBU) chief Ivan Bakanov, will take into account information about an offshore scandal that arose following the publication of the Pandora Papers investigation files, NACP head Oleksandr Novikov said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Oct 4 (Interfax) - The Kremlin did not see any credible information on "the wealth of Russian President Vladimir Putin's inner circle" in the so-called Pandora Papers published recently and views these files as a compilation of unfounded allegations that cannot serve as grounds for any inquiries, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PERM. Feb 9 (Interfax) - The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has not been in contact with UEC-Aviadvigatel (Perm) since receiving payment for validating the certificate on the PD-14 engine designed for the MC-21 aircraft, according to materials filed in the Perm Territory Arbitration Court. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. March 21 (Interfax) - Forty-one attempts to damage ballot papers by pouring green dye into ballot boxes were registered during the presidential election in Russia, Central Elections Commission (CEC) Chair Ella Pamfilova said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ISTANBUL. July 22 (Interfax) - Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has arrived in Istanbul to take part in signing documents on lifting restrictions on exporting Russian products and on Russia's facilitation of Ukrainian grain exports. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Feb 17 (Interfax) - Moscow hopes that the United States, Germany and France will understand that the current situation is a stalemate and will eventually exert influence on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MSOCOSW. Jan 6 (Interfax) - Russia will deploy to Kazakhstan less than 5,000 troops as part of the peacekeeping force of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Thursday, citing a source close to the Russian defense ministry. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Nov 1 (Interfax) - The Russian side has circulated the 'White Paper' on Syria as an official document on behalf of the president of the UN Security Council (UNSC), the Izvestia newspaper said on Tuesday, citing a UN source. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. July 23 (Interfax) - Russian state corporation Rosatom and Arab port operator DP World will sign an agreement on Friday to jointly work out pilot container shipments as part of the Northern Sea Transit Corridor project, national daily Kommersant reported. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Nov 7 (Interfax) - The Paradise Papers concerning offshore firms do not per se involve the issue of the relationship between Russia and the West, but attempts are being made to use it in the context of anti-Russian policy, according to Konstantin Kosachyov, head of the Federation Council Foreign Affairs Committee. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CHISINAU. Oct 14 (Interfax) - A total of 3,131,227 ballot papers will be printed for the Moldovan presidential elections, a representative of the Moldovan Central Election Commission told Interfax. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Oct 4 (Interfax) - Syria's Christians have appealed to Russia's Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (IOPS) for humanitarian assistance, the newspaper Izvestia reported on Thursday, citing an official IOPS statement seen by the editorial office. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KYIV. Oct 25 (Interfax) - Ukrainian Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairman Mykhailo Okhendovsky has confirmed the absence of any reasons not to forward the printed ballot papers to local election commissions in Krasnoarmiysk, Donetsk region, in the course of the day. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. July 12 (Interfax) - Russia's Industry and Trade Ministry has drafted a program to develop "competitive aviation industry products" for inclusion in the country's socioeconomic development strategy to 2030, calling for the production of 735 new civilian aircraft in 2021-2030 with overall financing of 1.84 trillion rubles, national daily Kommersant reported on Monday, citing the document dated May 28. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Dec 12 (Interfax) - There will be several major personnel reshuffles soon in Russia's defense industry, national daily Kommersant reported. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. March 25 (Interfax) - The work on White Paper on events in Ukraine will be completed very soon, Russian Foreign Ministry Human Rights Ombudsman Konstantin Dolgov said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

YEREVAN. May 20 (Interfax) - The Armenian media on Thursday published a document that acting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is reportedly planning to sign together with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Russian President Vladimir Putin. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Oct 15 (Interfax) - The cost of building the Leader nuclear powered icebreaker will be 98.6 billion rubles, not including VAT, according to the estimate of an interdepartmental working group chaired by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov, Kommersant reported on Monday, citing an October 3 report that Rosatom CEO Alexei Likhachev gave to the government. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MUNICH. Feb 18 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin's executive order on recognition of identity papers of the Donbas residents was issued solely for humanitarian purposes, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Feb 17 (Interfax) - The approval by all participants in the recent Syria talks in Astana of the Concept Paper on the Joint Group for monitoring a ceasefire in Syria has been the meeting's main outcome, a source in the Russian presidential office said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ST. PETERSBURG. April 7 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin says he sees no corruption element in the so-called Panama Papers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MOSCOW. Sept 28 (Interfax) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said that the stance of book publishers on the reduction of the import duty on coated paper is understandable but that domestic production of the paper should be promoted. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]