Luna-25 was lost because the engine didn’t receive a command to shut down, Roscosmos chief says Russia’s Luna-25 automatic interplanetary station collided with the Moon last month due to the failure of speed-measuring devices on the probe, Yury Borisov, the head of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, has said.
In a video, foreign minister rubbishes stories from US/UK media outlets as part of ‘a political game’ Reports that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was hospitalized after his arrival at the G20 summit on the Indonesia island of Bali are “top-level fake news,” Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
The economy minister speaks out against withdrawing from the organization, saying the benefits of being in the WTO outweigh the drawbacks Russia needs to keep its place in the World Trade Organization despite Ukraine-related Western sanctions, Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov said in response to a bill demanding Moscow quit the WTO.