The joint clinical trials of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine and UK-Swedish AstraZeneca's vaccine against the coronavirus will start very soon, head of the research center that developed Sputnik V, Alexander Gintsburg said Thursday, as reported by Sputnik News.
" RDIF and AstraZeneca agreed to hold joint clinical trials, which...
The Russian National Guard has signed a cooperation agreement with Belarus’ police force to combat “terrorism and extremism,” Interfax reported Friday.
The agreement comes amid months of opposition protests in Belarus against the country’s disputed presidential election. Belarus’ Moscow-backed President Alexander Lukashenko has accused the opposition of being backed by...
At its last meeting this year, the Bank of Russia decided to once again retain the key rate at 4.25% per annum, indicating a more significant and lasting impact of one-off pro-inflationary factors and an increase in inflationary expectations, according to the regulator’s press release, TASS reported.
"On December 18,...
The United States, responding to Russia blaming Washington for starting a new arms race, on Thursday reiterated a proposal already rejected by Moscow for extending their last strategic arms limitation treaty, appearing to close the door to talks in the final weeks of the Trump administration, Reuters reports.
The 2010...
Russian athletes will not be able to compete in major international competitions under the Russian flag until December 16, 2022, according to the ruling of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on the dispute between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA).
The CAS, however,...
The number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in Russia over the past 24 hours has increased by 28,552, bringing the total to 2,791,220, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told journalists on Friday, TASS reported.
A day earlier, 28,214 infections were detected.
According to the crisis center, since the beginning of the pandemic 1.9%...
Russia is already reluctantly locked in an arms race with the US, President Vladimir Putin conceded on Thursday, but it is ready to meet the challenge, RT reported.
Putin used his annual end-of-year press conference to insist that Russia would ensure it retained its status as a global military power....
Russian authorities are investigating the deaths of 14 coronavirus hospital patients after an oxygen equipment breakdown last month, authorities and state media said Wednesday.
Some 40 intensive care patients were moved in early November from a maternity ward converted into a COVID-19 hospital in the city of Kursk south of...
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he hoped U.S. President-elect Joe Biden would help resolve some of the difficult issues in relations between Moscow and Washington, Reuters quotes him as saying.
Speaking at his annual press conference, Putin added that Russian hackers had not meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential...
