Monday, June 29, 2026
Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich has filed a lawsuit against the author and the publishers of a sensational book in which it's alleged that he'd bought Chelsea Football Club on the direct orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Abramovich’s legal team said the the book,...
President Vladimir Putin has blasted claims that the EU doesn’t need a Covid-19 vaccine developed by Russian scientists, hinting that Brussels may have been influenced by a shadowy influence campaign from Western drug companies, RT informs. Speaking at a government meeting about Covid-19 immunization programs on Monday, Putin said that...
Global demand for liquefied natural gas will grow to 700 million tons annually by 2040 from 360 million tons last year, Shell said in its LNG Outlook 2021. As much as 75% of this demand growth will come from Asia, RT reports. Asian economies have been a key market for...
A third wave of coronavirus can hit Russia in late April or early May, leading researcher of the Gamaleya Center Fyodor Lisitsin believes, TASS reports. "If expect it at all, a third wave can be expected in late April or early May and it will last at least one or...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to get vaccinated by the end of the day, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, TASS reported. According to him, Putin is currently holding "working meetings." "We expect that he will get a vaccine shot by the end of the day," Peskov said. The Kremlin...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that he had discussed preparations for high-level and top-level bilateral contacts at the talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, TASS informed. "We discussed in detail ways of further promoting practical cooperation against the backdrop of the current epidemiological restrictions and paid special...
The Ministry of Digital Development has developed a draft decree of the President of the Russian Federation, in which it proposed to start issuing electronic passports to citizens in Moscow from December 1, 2021. For the rest of the Russians, this opportunity will appear "as soon as they are...
With anti-Russian sanctions gathering momentum, particularly in the US, President Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov says he does not exclude the possibility of Russia being unplugged from the SWIFT financial network, RT reported. “We cannot rule out any of the potential threats... These actions are unreasonable and unpredictable, therefore, of...
Russian entrepreneurs consider the idea of a reduced employment format for doing business utopian; most of them also do not support the division of working conditions on the basis of gender, calling it a "step backward," representatives of the business community told TASS on Monday. On March 11, the ombudsman...
Another round of American economic measures aimed against Russia could have the unintended effect of strengthening the country’s economy, officials in Moscow have warned as Washington considers introducing new embargoes this week, RT reports. “Fresh US sanctions will only intensify the process of switching away from dependency on imports in...