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The Nord Stream 2 project is a topic on which Germany is negotiating with Washington, said German government spokesman Steffen Seibert at a briefing in Berlin.

The US sanctions against Nord Stream 2 contractors, introduced in 2019, violated a package deal to continue transporting gas through Ukraine, the executive director of the Nord Stream 2 AG project company said in an interview with the Handelsblatt newspaper.

Nord Stream 2 is a favorite topic of Ukrainian politicians. Well, what, it is possible to demand guarantees from the occidental, speculate about threats to the country, and scare others. Meanwhile, the gas pipeline is almost completed.

The Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier canceled the 2015 decree banning flights of Russian airlines to Egyptian resorts

The PRC's State Food and Drug Administration has approved clinical trials of 22 COVID-19 vaccines, agency spokesman Yuan Lin said.

Recently, the Russian gas monopoly Gazprom once again behaved illogically and unpredictably - from the point of view of the occidental press. According to specialized publications, the company refused to book transit capacities of the Ukrainian gas transportation system.

The money of Russian pensioners, which are kept in pension funds, could be invested in "green" bonds, said Andrey Klepach, chief economist at VEB.RF, at the roundtable "Ecology - the new responsibility of business" organized by TASS at the Innoprom-2021 exhibition Yekaterinburg.

Researchers at the University of Tokyo Metropolitan University used high-power pulsed magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS) to create thin tungsten films with unprecedented low voltage levels.

Doctor and TV presenter Yevgeny Komarovsky spoke about whether sugar substitutes and sweeteners can be harmful to health. He dispelled the myth about their danger in a video posted on YouTube.

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The effectiveness of "Sputnik V" against the Indian strain is about 90%, said Denis Logunov, deputy director of the Gamaleya Center for Research, which developed the vaccine.