Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Bitcoin grew by 0.57% and in its peak reached $37,168, according to CoinDesk web portal. Thus, the price of the cryptocurrency has updated its historical maximum, TASS writes. Bitcoin is a decentralized system of the eponymous cryptocurrency based on blockchain technology. It can be issued by any user who is...
The number of coronavirus cases in Russia increased by 23,541 per day. The total number of cases reached 3,332,142, the operational headquarters for the fight against coronavirus told reporters on Thursday, TASS writes. In relative terms, according to the headquarters, the increase in new cases is 0.7%. The lowest growth rates...
Sheremetyevo International Airport, which opened its “new and improved” Terminal C at the start of 2020, has ended a difficult but eventful year by inaugurating its newly reconstructed Runway-1, Airport World reports. The runway has two new high-speed-exit taxiways, which according to the Russian gateway, ensure that it has the...
Russia’s coronavirus spread rate sank on Wednesday to below 0.9 for the second time since the start of the pandemic, according to TASS estimates based on the anti-coronavirus crisis center’s data. The figure declined from 0.91 to 0.89. Last time this level was recorded on May 19 and did not...
Serbia’s Parliament Speaker Ivica Dacic and Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin have received Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine at the Belgrade-based Torlak Institute of Virology, TASS reported. After the vaccination Vulin and Dacic addressed the media. "The issue of vaccination always gets a political dimension. Currently, some 100 vaccines are undergoing...
Sixty-three years after the Soviet Union took an early lead in the space race by launching Sputnik, the first Earth-orbiting satellite, Russia is in the middle of the COVID-19 vaccine race, Freight Waves reported. Last week, passenger carrier Aerolíneas Argentinas transported the first batch of 300,000 Sputnik V doses...
Russia’s coronavirus fatalities grew by 518 in the past 24 hours compared to 482 deaths reported the day before, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Tuesday, TASS reports. The conditional mortality rate stands at 1.81%, as follows from the data provided by the crisis center. Another 75 fatalities were recorded...
In Russia’s staid parliament, the dying days of 2020 were marked by unusually frenzied lawmaking activity, most of it centering on civil rights, The Moscow Times reports. Over the course of a few days in late December, the State Duma passed a flurry of bills introducing sweeping new restrictions on...
The Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V was thoroughly tested, within a mechanism that was later picked up by major producers of foreign vaccines, Alexander Gintsburg, the head of the Gamaleya Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, told Sputnik on Tuesday. Sputnik V was the world's first coronavirus vaccine officially registered for...
More than 583,000 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus have been recorded globally in the past day, pushing a total number of infections to 83.91 million, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its daily bulletin on Monday. According to the WHO updates, the coronavirus-related deaths increased by over 7,900...