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Russia, US maintain working communications — Kremlin aide

Ushakov said that working communications with the Americans are going on and on

MOSCOW, June 29. /TASS/. Working communications between Moscow and Washington are on a going basis now, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov told VGTRK reporter Pavel Zarubin.

"Working communications with the Americans are going on and on," Ushakov said.

"Now there is a dialogue that provides an opportunity to move aside a little, to dig deeper at a certain point, to look somewhere at what is really possible, where real shifts can be. In other words, the talk is going normally," he added.

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The Russian president highlighted good progress in robotics in general

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Yury Ushakov said that Donald Trump began by briefing about a successful passage in the US Congress of the administration’s flagship bill on the tax and migration reform

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Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to recognize the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on recommendation from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, said the Russian ambassador in the Asian country, Dmitry Zhirnov

Kiev should consider Russian memorandum in light of ending US support — MP

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Foreign states require Kiev to bury mercenaries in Ukraine — security forces

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Armenia seeks to become full member of SCO — Armenian Foreign Ministry

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Kiev stages attacks on airfields in five Russian regions — Russian defense ministry

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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov refuted the Kiev regime’s statements about the attack’s aftermath

UN should settle issue of transfer of Russian contributions with US — official

"Russia has no debts to the world organization," Kirill Logvinov, director of the Russian foreign ministry's international organizations department, told TASS

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Military expert noted that, until recently, this section of the front "was in a static state" and fighting there was "an extremely rare phenomenon."

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The US has been reviewing this request for several weeks

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