Moscow supplied nearly 2 million tons of fish products to twenty countries last year Russia’s seafood exports from the fish-rich Far Eastern Primorsky and Sakhalin regions surged by over 70% last year, data published by the Russian regulator responsible for food safety, Rosselkhoznadzor, showed on Thursday.

Belarus is deploying the grouping as the nation is put on high terrorism alert, the country’s president has said Minsk has begun deployment of a joint Russian-Belarusian military force on its territory, President Alexander Lukashenko told journalists on Friday, citing “heightened tensions” on its borders, which prompted the nation to issue a high terrorism alert.

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