Wednesday, July 1, 2026
The chorus of doom mongering Western experts and media commentators has failed to send Russians scrambling to buy tinned goods or trading cash for precious metals, as their gloomy predictions again failed to come to pass in 2020, RT reports. Amid a sea of worrying forecasts for the country over...
A Russian hacker was sentenced to 12 years in a U.S. prison Thursday for consumer data theft worth $19 million from 100 million customers of over a dozen financial service companies, the Justice Department said, as reported by The Moscow Times. Andrei Tyurin, 37, pleaded guilty in 2019 after his...
A Brazilian pharmaceutical company aims to request authorization for emergency use of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in the second half of February, its head told Valor Econômico on Thursday, Reuters reports. Fernando de Castro Marques, chief executive of União Química Farmacêutica Nacional, told the newspaper that the first doses...
The number of coronavirus cases in Russia per day increased by 23,652 to 3,355,794, the federal operational headquarters for the fight against the new infection told reporters on Friday, TASS reports. A day earlier, the headquarters reported 23,541 cases detected over the day. In relative terms, the increase in the number...
President Vladimir Putin made no statement on the unprecedented chaos in the United States when he spoke briefly with journalists after attending an Orthodox Christmas service, while Russia's Foreign Ministry said the U.S. electoral process is archaic and prone to violations, The Moscow Times reports. A rampaging mob of Trump...
Nuclear trains were once considered a relic of the Cold War, but now the secretive locomotives could be set for a comeback, carrying warheads around Russia, in a move that could set Moscow on a collision course with Washington, RT informed. The news is sure to raise hackles in the...
Chinese authorities will take necessary measures to safeguard the legitimate rights of the country’s companies against US aggression, China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying has said, RT reported. The claim comes shortly after US President Donald Trump signed an order banning US transactions with eight Chinese apps, including the Alipay...
Volatility in the oil market in 2021 will decrease and oil demand will grow by 3-5 mln barrels per day (bpd). Nevertheless, it will not reach the pre-crisis level, which was higher by 6-7 mln bpd against the level of 2020, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said in...
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and the Serbian government have signed a deal on supplying to the country 2 mln doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, the sovereign wealth fund said, TASS reported. "The agreement between RDIF and the Serbian government will provide for the vaccination of 1 mln...
Production of vaccines against coronavirus in the European Union, including the Russian vaccine Sputnik V, is theoretically possible only if certified by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), Deputy government spokesperson and Deputy Head of the Press and Information Office of the German Federal Government Ulrike Demmer said on Wednesday,...