Russia’s lower house of parliament voted on Wednesday to pass legislation allowing authorities to block or restrict websites like YouTube if they “discriminate” against Russian media on their sites.
The authors of the legislation cited complaints from Russian media outlets RT and the RIA news agency about what they described...
Russia’s Health Ministry said on Wednesday it was halting the uptake of new volunteers in its main trial of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, Reuters reports citing TASS.
Earlier on Wednesday, the vaccine’s developers at the Gamaleya Institute said they felt it was no longer ethical to administer a...
Russia’s coronavirus cases rose by 27,250 in the past day and the total case tally reached 2,933,753, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Wednesday, TASS reports.
The growth rate in cases dropped to 0.9% for the first time since October 8.
The lowest growth rates were registered in the past...
VTB and MTS were the first in Russia to carry out a transaction to issue a bank guarantee using the Masterchain blockchain platform, ICT Moscow reported.
The operation was carried out in real time: VTB issued a digital guarantee signed with an enhanced qualified signature, MTS accepted the document, sent...
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill into law Tuesday that allows former presidents to become senators for life when they leave office.
The law is the latest legislative change regarding Russia's ex-presidents amid continuing questions over President Vladimir Putin’s future after his current term limit expires in 2024. The...
Russia’s federal anti-monopoly service (FAS) has accused hotel reservation website Booking.com of violating anti-monopoly law, the regulator said on Monday, Reuters reports.
The statement from the FAS comes nearly a year after it opened an investigation into the company’s move to ask hotels and hostels to offer the same prices...
Iran is interested in investments by Russian oil companies, Russia’s TASS news agency quoted Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh as saying on Monday, Reuters reports.
Zanganeh also said Iran and Russia will increase cooperation in the energy sphere to offset the impact of sanctions, Interfax news agency reported.
As many tourist destinations suffer from COVID-19, the Russian resort city of Sochi is exploring new opportunities through its Olympic legacy and is planning to implement a new promotional strategy, Sputnik reports.
The town hall in Rosa Khutor, an alpine resort in the city of Sochi in Southern Russia, is...
Russia will suspend the air traveling to and from the United Kingdom for a week from December 22 in view of a new coronavirus strain appeared there, the coronavirus infection response center told reporters on Monday, TASS reports.
"The response center for novel coronavirus infection import and spread prevention made...
Senior citizens over 60 years old will be eligible to receive Russia Sputnik V vaccine against the novel coronavirus after New Year, Alexander Gintsburg, the head of the Gamaleya research center that developed the vaccine, said on Monday, adding that trials on this age group are close to completion.
Currently,...
