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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called the defense agreement between France and Greece "the first step for Europe towards strategic autonomy," Kathimerini reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin rarely frees his birthday from work events, and he has no tradition of treating colleagues at work on this holiday, said his press secretary Dmitry Peskov.

Over the past day, 27,550 cases of COVID-19 were detected in Russia - this is the maximum increase since the beginning of the year, it follows from the data of the operational headquarters.

Crimea will forever remain a part of Russia, and the prospects for disintegration are real primarily for Ukraine, formed as a state with the help of the Russian Empire and the USSR, said Senator from Crimea Sergei Tsekov.

This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the lawyer of the politician David Sadzaglishvili.

Mass searches of offices and residential premises of persons suspected of money laundering and organized crime took place in three federal states of Germany.

Global ecologists have noted the changes in the attitude of the Russian president to the issues of global warming.

Mass events throughout the country have been canceled due to the pandemic, said the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova.

The pace of vaccination against coronavirus in Russia leaves much to be desired, and one of the reasons is the insufficiently active campaign to motivate Russians to get vaccinated, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov told.

In Moscow, a terrorist cell from the organization Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami *, banned in Russia, has been destroyed, eight people have been detained.

According to preliminary data, a security guard was injured.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, sentenced by a French court to a year in prison for illegally financing his 2012 presidential campaign, will appeal the sentence.

Chairman of the commission for the protection of children from destructive content under Roskomnadzor suggested recognizing gay and transgender movements, radical feminism and child-free as extremism.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, in an interview with RBC-Ukraine, announced his readiness to create "serious problems" for Russia.

It is planned to cancel the preferential visa regime for officials of the national and regional authorities of Belarus, members of the Constitutional and Supreme Courts.