Some 85% of those vaccinated with Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine do not have any side effects, head of the Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Alexander Ginzburg said on Thursday, TASS reports.
"Based on the three stages of trials, we have documented the following: 85% of those vaccinated...
A vodka box stuffed with more than $1 million of Iranian cash was stolen from the Russian Foreign Ministry building last year, the government confirmed Thursday following media reports.
According to a report by The Moscow Times, Russia had received the $1.5 million stashed in an Absolut vodka box and...
Moscow set a new single-day record of more than 8,000 coronavirus cases as national deaths and infections shattered previous records Thursday, The Moscow Times reports.
The latest record comes as Moscow prepares to celebrate Christmas and New Year’s without its traditional mass festivities due to the pandemic.
Of the 8,203 newly...
The Kremlin said on Thursday that new U.S. sanctions targeting Nord Stream 2 could complicate the completion of the stalled Russian gas pipeline to Germany, but that Moscow and European nations had an interest in it being built, Reuters reports.
Senior Trump administration officials said on Wednesday that Washington was...
Russia’s coronavirus cases in the past day rose by 29,935, a new high since the start of the pandemic, TASS reports, citing the anti-coronavirus crisis center.
The total COVID-19 case tally hit 2,963,688, according to the crisis center. The growth rate rose to 1%.
Moscow confirmed 8,203 coronavirus cases in the...
The Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament) has approved the third reading of the bill regulating the activity of foreign agents developed by Russian parliamentary commissions to avoid foreign interference in Russian affairs, TASS reported.
Non-registered public groups involved in political activity and receiving foreign funding will be considered...
The first regiment of Avangard hypersonic missile systems that went on combat alert in late 2019 in the Orenburg Region will assume its full strength in late 2021, a source in the domestic defense industry told TASS on Wednesday.
"The first regiment of the Yasny division of the Strategic Missile...
The growth of China’s gross domestic product (GDP) will accelerate to 7.9 percent next year from the two percent in 2020, according to a report by the World Bank published on Wednesday, RT writes.
It has projected that the country’s GDP growth will return to its pre-pandemic level by 2021...
The greenback may fall victim to Washington’s sanctions, as these policies force global players to ditch the US dollar and switch to national currencies in trade, according to the Central Bank of Russia (CBR), RT reported.
“Active use of the sanctions regime by the US administration in recent years is...
