Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Russia's state-controlled tech corporation Rostec will lead a consortium of equipment manufacturers for the country's fifth generation mobile communication scheme, while the prospects of 5G in Russia remain unclear, bne IntelliNews reports. Vasily Brovko, Rostec's director for special assignments, was quoted by Vedomosti as saying that the corporation is working...
Russia confirmed 15,038 new coronavirus cases in the past day and the total case tally reached 4,027,748, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Thursday, TASS reported. In relative terms, the growth rate reached 0.37%. The lowest growth rates in the past day were registered in the Tuva Republic, the...
Sheremetyevo International Airport reviewed its best practices in security and control yesterday at the "Security Technologies 2021" Forum. Deputy Director General for Security of JSC SIA Viktor Ermakov presented a report to the conference on "Integrated automated security and control system: effects and examples of implementation." "The safety of passengers, guests and employees is...
About 2,200,000 people in Russia have received the first dose of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, Deputy Research Director at the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology Dmitry Logunov said at a round table hosted by the Moscow City Council on Wednesday. "In total, about 2.2 mn people have...
The Russian capital has seen a snowier-than-usual winter this year, getting over 100 cm of powder (nearly 70 percent of the annual average), since 1 December, Sputnik reports. Moscow is bracing for a "snow apocalypse" as meteorologists predict 36 straight hours of non-stop precipitation and wind speeds of up to...
Implementation of national projects, in particular, measures within the framework of the Comprehensive Plan of the Backbone Infrastructure, could mitigate decline in investments in Russia in 2020, according to Head of the Center for Investment Analysis and Macroeconomic Research at the Center for Strategic Research (CSR) Daniil Nametkin. Russian Minister...
Russia confirmed 14,494 COVID-19 cases over the past day and the total case tally reached 4,012,710, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Wednesday, TASS informed. For the first time since October 17 the daily case tally was below 15,000. In relative terms the growth rate in new cases stood...
Crude oil futures secured further gains on Tuesday, with both global benchmark Brent and US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) climbing to the highest levels since January 2020, RT reported. Prices for both contracts touched peak levels for the last 13 months during early trading on Tuesday before giving up some...
Azerbaijan has given the go-ahead to the world's first clinical trials combining two Covid-19 vaccines, with the country set to test inoculation using both Russia's Sputnik V and the AstraZeneca-Oxford University jab, RT reported. Cooperation between the two vaccine producers was first floated last December, when AstraZeneca accepted the proposal...
The Reddit-fuelled investment frenzy of recent weeks has pushed Russia’s Saint Petersburg Exchange to become the country’s leading stock exchange for the first time in modern history, The Moscow Times reports. The Saint Petersburg Exchange (SPB) notched up record trading volumes of $36.1 billion in January, compared with $30.2 billion...