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AFP, KERCH: Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to unveil Tuesday a highly symbolic bridge linking southern Russia to the Crimea, four years after the peninsula was annexed from Ukraine.

The Crimean Bridge, at 19 kilometers will be Europe's longest, overtaking Lisbon's Vasco da Gama Bridge.

Russia is preparing retaliatory measures against the U.K. over its decision to expel 23 Russian diplomats, the Kremlin said today, promising they would "not be long in coming."

"They are being formulated in the foreign ministry and in other bodies," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in a briefing call, adding that president Vladimir Putin will make the final decision.

The poisoning in Britain of a former Russian double agent is in “no way” an issue for Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday, while confirming the hospitalized man is a Russian citizen.

Britain blamed Russia on Thursday for a cyber-attack last year, publicly pointing the finger at Moscow for spreading a virus which disrupted companies across Europe including UK-based Reckitt Benckiser, according to Reuters. 

Russia denied the accusation, saying it was part of "Russophobic" campaign it said was being waged by some Western countries.

Russia said on Tuesday that it had the right to put weapons anywhere it chose on its own territory after reports that Moscow had deployed nuclear-capable Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad drew criticism from its neighbors and NATO, Deutsche Welle reports. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in the southern Russian city of Sochi on Feb. 12, RIA news agency quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Thursday, reported by Reuters. 

The Kremlin on Thursday rejected a report published by US Senators that accuses Russia of interfering in elections in 19 countries.

The report, titled, "Putin's asymmetric assault on democracy in Russia and Europe: implications for US national security," dedicates one whole chapter to Serbia.

The report, titled, "Putins asymmetric assault on democracy in Russia and Europe: implications for US national security," dedicates one whole chapter to Serbia.

There has to date been no confirmation from any Russian government agencies that there was an incident on Russian soil that could have caused raised levels of pollution from a radioactive isotope, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday, Reuters reported.

Bulgaria on Friday reminded Russia that it was not the Soviet Red Army but the Bulgarian people who saved thousands of Bulgarian Jews from deportation to Nazi death camps in 1943.