Thursday, July 10, 2025
Russia’s Sputnik V anti-coronavirus vaccine is the world’s second in terms of approvals for use from national regulators, as follows from a tweet posted on the Sputnik V official account on Friday, TASS writes. "SputnikV is now the world's second most popular Covid Vaccine in terms of regulatory approvals," it...
U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and his wife are applying for Russian citizenship in order not to be separated from their future son in an era of pandemics and closed borders, Reuters reported. Snowden’s wife, Lindsay, is expecting a child in late December, the RIA news agency cited Anatoly Kucherena, his...
Russia’s coronavirus tests give false negative results up to 40% of the time, a health official said on Thursday as new infections rose and Moscow’s mayor warned of a worsening situation, Reuters reported. The Kremlin, which has said there are no plans for a lockdown despite the surge in COVID-19...
Russian oil producer Lukoil, which is limited in its ability to expand its resource base in Russia, continues to expand its presence in Africa, Kommersant reports. The company, which has stakes in projects in Nigeria and Cameroon, shelled out $800 million to participate in a project on the Congo...
Russia’s disconnection from Western payment systems can be painful, but the country will manage how to cope with such sanctions at the national level by fully switching to the national payment system Mir, Chairman of the Association of Electronic Money and Money Transfer Market Participants Viktor Dostov told TASS. However,...
The draft decree of the Russian government on providing airports with over 10 bln rubles ($136.13 mln) in subsidies can be approved by the end of May, Minister of Transport Yevgeny Dietrich told reporters on Saturday, TASS informs. "The draft government decree, which we already wrote on this subject after...
One of Russia’s leading precious metals miners, Polymetal International, has said it had completed a non-cash exchange of its Tarutin property in Russia for 85% of the East Tarutin copper-gold property in Kazakhstan, according to Morningstar. The asset swap with Russian Copper Company was announced in April this year. “East...
The volume of trade between Russia and the European Union declined by 21% last year to $219 billion, according to the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko, RT informed. He said during a round table titled ‘Russia-Europe: realities and prospects’ in the State Duma that Russia’s “Trade turnover with the...
Russian military experts have done everything to save Serbia from the coronavirus pandemic, Commander of the Russian task force in Serbia Major General Mikhail Chernyshev said, responding to the gratitude expressed by Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin and Belgrade Deputy Mayor Goran Vesic, TASS reported. "We tried to do everything...
About 300 medical organizations in Moscow are already using artificial intelligence to diagnose various diseases based on the results of X-ray studies. 21 companies have offered their services (38 solutions in total) in the field of artificial intelligence, ICT Moscow writes. Artificial intelligence integrated into the UMIAS radiology information service...