The first power unit of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) has reached 100% capacity, the press service of the Belarusian Energy Ministry said on Wednesday, TASS writes.
"The first power unit of the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant achieved the rated capacity level on January 12 at 19:57 pm (coinciding...
The Russian budget can receive extra 73.5 bln rubles ($996.2 mln) of oil and gas revenues in January, the Finance Ministry says on its website on Wednesday, TASS writes.
"The expected amount of extra oil and gas revenues of the federal budget related to actual oil price overrunning the baseline...
Sheremetyevo International Airport served 19,784,000 passengers and performed 186,383 take-off and landing operations in 2020.
The airport hosted a total of 6,383,000 international passengers and 13,401,000 domestic passengers during the calendar year. The most popular international destinations were Antalya, Istanbul, Yerevan, Phuket and Bangkok, and the most popular domestic destinations...
The value of Russia’s gold reserves passed its U.S. dollar holdings for the first time in history last year, Central Bank data published Monday showed, as reported by The Moscow Times.
At the end of June 2020, Russia held $128.5 billion in gold, representing 22.9% of Moscow’s total international reserves...
The number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in Russia over the past 24 hours has increased by 22,934, bringing the total to 3,448,203, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told journalists on Tuesday, TASS reports.
According to the crisis center, the relative growth of new cases has not surpassed 0.7% for four days.
The...
Russian eco-activists will end more than two years of protests against a controversial garbage dump that would have seen tons of waste shipped from Moscow to northern Russia after its construction was halted, The Moscow Times reports.
Russians nationwide have protested against plans to ship Moscow’s trash to remote regions...
A Russian lymphoma patient with long-term COVID-19 has acquired 18 mutations of the virus in over four months duration of the disease, according to the preprint of a study published at virological.org, Sputnik reports.
The study, released in early January, is authored by researchers from the Skolkovo Institute of Science...
Russian artist and LGBT activist Yulia Tsvetkova has been hit with pornography charges a fourth time over artwork aimed at ending stigmas around the female anatomy, the independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported Tuesday.
Tsvetkova, 27, was first charged with distributing pornography online in June 2020 after sharing artwork of vulvas...
Russia will keep flights to and from the United Kingdom suspended until February 1, 2021, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said in a statement on Tuesday, TASS reports.
"The anti-coronavirus crisis center has decided to keep flights to and from the United Kingdom suspended. In order to protect public health, the...
Moscow does not rule out that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden may tweak outgoing President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, but believes that game-changing changes are unlikely, Russia's special presidential representative for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said in an interview with Sputnik.
"The change of the U.S. administration is...
