Russia says working on removing Taliban from terrorist list

"This is a country that is next to us, and one way or another we communicate with them," Reuters quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying.

"We need to resolve pressing issues, this also requires dialogue, so in this regard we communicate with them like practically everyone else - they are the de facto authority in Afghanistan," he told reporters.

Peskov did not elaborate on the "pressing issues."

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