The Russian convoy of the Humanitarian Response Center has ensured the transit of a humanitarian cargo weighing 150 tonnes to Kalbajar District, which came under Azerbaijan’s control after the escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh in the autumn of 2020, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Monday, TASS reported.
According to the...
The consortium behind the Russia-led Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline has resumed laying pipes in the waters of Denmark, it said on Saturday, despite mounting pressure on the project from Washington, Reuters reports.
Construction of the link, which would double the capacity of the existing Nord Stream pipeline to...
Russia’s coronavirus cases rose by 16,627 to 3,951,233 in the past 24 hours, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Saturday, TASS reports.
According to data from the crisis center, the coronavirus growth rate is 0.42%.
The rate is the lowest in the Tuva region (0.1%), the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous region, the Jewish...
The German authorities are considering the possibility of creating a shutdown mechanism for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which would be used in the case of a Russian attempt to decrease gas transit via Ukraine, Sputnik reports citing German media.
The WirtschaftsWoche newspaper reported that neither Chancellor Angela Merkel...
The European Union’s top diplomat has said he hopes the Russian-developed coronavirus vaccine will be approved for use in the European bloc soon, The Moscow Times reported citing AFP.
Earlier this week, a peer-reviewed study published in The Lancet showed the Sputnik V vaccine to be 91.6% effective against symptomatic...
Russia has revived a draft proposal allowing law enforcement to access citizens’ mobile location data without a court order, according to a document seen by Reuters, a move that comes amid nationwide protests in support of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.
Thousands of protesters have been held during recent weekend rallies...
The report in the medical journal The Lancet on the safety and efficacy of the Russian vaccine against the novel coronavirus has put Sputnik V among the world's top vaccines, David Livermore, a member of the scientific advisory board on Sputnik V, said in an interview with Sputnik.
On Tuesday,...
A Russian court fined mining giant Nornickel 146 billion rubles ($2 billion) Friday for its role in the worst oil spill in the country’s modern history, The Moscow Times reports.
Some 21,000 tons of diesel fuel poured into the ground and waterways surrounding Nornickel’s base — the city of Norilsk...
The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell will spend three days in Moscow in what marks the first visit by an EU High Representative to Russia since 2017.
Sputnik goes live from Moscow where Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and EU High Representative for Foreign...
The number of coronavirus cases in Russia rose by 16,688 to 3,934,606 in the past 24 hours, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Friday.
The coronavirus growth rate stands at 0.43%, TASS reports.
The rate is the lowest in the Tuva region (0.08%), the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous region, the Jewish autonomous region,...
