Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's defiant pledge to return to Moscow from Germany after surviving a poisoning attack puts the Kremlin in a major bind, The Moscow Times reports.
President Vladimir Putin, observers say, is caught between a rock and a hard place: allow his most outspoken critic to freely...
Russian pharmaceutical company Petrovax on Thursday said 92.5% of Russian volunteers in trials of the Chinese Ad5-Ncov vaccine against COVID-19 had shown high levels of antibodies, Reuters reports, according to the Interfax news agency.
Ad5-nCoV is a candidate vaccine co-developed by CanSino Biologics and a Chinese military-backed research unit.
Moscow has extended all restrictions against COVID-19 until Jan. 21, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Thursday, with the exception of pupils returning to schools from Monday, Reuters reports.
Russia, which launched a voluntary vaccination program with the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine last month, has resisted imposing a strict lockdown as...
The two top diplomats met in Moscow to discuss bilateral cooperation in nuclear energy and the space industry, as well as exchange views on topical regional issues, Sputnik reports.
Sputnik is live from Moscow as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Saudi Arabian counterpart, Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud,...
The official Twitter account for Russia’s coronavirus vaccine announced on Jan.11 that “over 1.5 million people have already been vaccinated with Sputnik V as part of the mass scale vaccination in Russia,” The Moscow Times reported.
As the country seeks to vaccinate more people and claim one of the top...
Russia confirmed 24,763 new coronavirus cases in the past day, bringing the total caseload to 3,495,816, TASS reports citing the anti-coronavirus crisis center.
This is a new high since January 2 when 26,301 cases were recorded.
The lowest growth rates were recorded in the past day in the Tuva Republic (0.2%),...
The first sunrise of the year dawned upon residents of Murmansk in Russia's Arctic as the 40-day-long polar night finally came to an end — if only for a brief 45 minutes, The Moscow Times reported.
On Jan. 11, residents of Murmansk, the world's largest city above the Arctic Circle,...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed authorities to move forward with mass coronavirus inoculation for all Russians starting next week, TASS reports.
"We have already started large-scale vaccination. Last week, Mikhail reported to me that the industry had not only kept up with the promised targets and volumes...
S7 airline has opened ticket sales to charter flights from Moscow to Bari, Olbia and Pisa in Italy with the scheduled departures from early March, the Russian air carrier says in its press release, TASS reports.
"In accordance with the authorization of the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency, S7 Airlines...
The Nord Stream 2 sub-sea gas pipeline to Germany will be completed despite pressure from the United States, Russia’s RIA news agency quoted the Foreign Ministry as saying on Wednesday, TASS reports.
Completion of the project, which is more than 90% finished, depends on various factors, including weather, RIA reported,...
