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Defense Minister Visits China, Attends Military Forum

RUSSIA
  • Bloomberg report that a Russian airport in a majority Muslim region was temporarily shut down after a mob forced its way onto the tarmac where, according to reports and images on social media, a plane from Israel had landed. “Unknown people” infiltrated the airport in Makhachkala, the capital of the Dagestan region, Russia’s federal aviation agency Rosaviatsia said in a Telegram post on Sunday evening. It took hours to restore order, with the premises finally cleared by 10:20 p.m. Moscow time, the agency said.
  • Russia's former President, Dmitry Medevedev, was quoted by Reuters as saying on Sunday that cooperation with Europe in energy matters was pointless as European countries had fallen on hard times and had poor growth prospects.
  • Defense Minister Shoigu visits China to take part in a military forum. There are no major releases on the docket today. A slew of macroeconomic data is on the docket later this week, including Retail Sales, Unemployment Rate and Real Wage data.

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