Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered to equip all healthcare centers affiliated to the Defense Ministry with domestic and imported ventilators for coronavirus patients, TASS reported.
"It is necessary to equip all beds provided for the use of this system with these devices," he said on Friday at a meeting...
A universal approach is needed to the problem of misinformation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday, TASS reported.
He said that the situation around the Financial Times and the New York Times following their allegations of Russia’s underreporting coronavirus mortality figures is to be addressed by Russia’s mass media...
Russia's largest bank Sberbank reported net income of RUB11.5bn ($155mn) in April 2020, plunging by 85% year on year and 81% month on month, and making a return on equity (ROE) of only 3%, the lowest since 2015, the Russian Accounting Standard (RAS) report showed.
As reported by bne IntelliNews, the banking sector is...
Russian lawmakers have passed a bill to allow Russians to vote by post or online for President Vladimir Putin’s constitutional amendments that would allow him to stay in power until 2036, bne IntelliNews says in a report.
Putin caught observers out in January by agreeing to a stage-managed “spontaneous” suggestion...
The volume of orders for grocery deliveries online surged in April and could more than triple this year, according to the data released by e-commerce consultancy INFOLine, released on May 13, bne IntelliNews reported.
INFOLine’s data for the first quarter this year and April’s trading results surged and could rise 3.3x...
The Russian government has allocated 23.4 billion rubles (about $329 million at the current exchange rate) to compensate for air carriers’ losses entailed as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to the government’s website, TASS reports.
"Domestic air carriers will receive 23.4 billion rubles in compensation for losses...
The Ministry for Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic started developing a new state program for the socio-economic development of the Arctic, which is scheduled to be finished before the end of June, the ministry announced on Wednesday, TASS reported.
The ministry’s press service told TASS that the...
The volume of global trade may plummet by almost one third due to the pandemic, according to experts’ estimations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during the opening of the meeting of the foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), TASS reported.
"The key task is to overcome the...
Western countries have rejected Russia’s request to hold an open discussion on a report by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) devoted to the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria, Russia’s UN envoy Vasily Nebenzya told a press conference with journalists via a video link-up,...
