Sunday, August 9, 2026
Sberbank will become the winner in the tender for the right to act as an operator and supplier of the core of the IT platform "Gostech" - a unified ecosystem of public services for citizens and business, ICT Moscow reported. The bank became the only participant in the auction, announced...
The Russian airline Aeroflot will resume flights between Moscow, from the Sheremetyevo International Airport, and Helsinki from 24 December. “From December 24, we will operate flights on Thursdays, except December 31. After that - every Thursday until the end of March,” TASS quotes the words of a representative of...
Moscow reserves the right to take tit-for-tat measures in response to the UK’s new anti-Russian sanctions, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday, TASS reported. Russia’s Foreign Ministry was bewildered over the UK government’s decision announced on December 10 on imposing national sanctions against three Russian citizens and...
Russia confirmed 28,137 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours on Saturday, including 6,622 in Moscow, pushing the national tally to 2,625,848 since the pandemic began, Reuters reported. Authorities said 560 people had died overnight, taking the official death toll to 46,453.
Roscosmos has signed a contract worth 4.2 billion rubles ($57.5 million) for the preliminary design of nuclear space tug Nuklon for flights to the Moon, Jupiter and Venus, according to the materials of the state corporation published on the public procurement website, Sputnik reported. The contract between Roskosmos and the...
The construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline resumed on December 11; the Fortuna barge will carry out the pipe laying in the exclusive economic zone of Germany, Nord Stream 2 AG, the operator of the pipeline construction, told reporters on Friday, TASS reported. The pipelayer Fortuna will lay a...
The developer of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine will partner with AstraZeneca to test in a clinical trial whether combining their jabs would boost immunity to Covid-19, the British drug-maker announced Friday. Russia’s state-run Gamaleya research center two weeks ago suggested trying the combined regimen with AstraZeneca, saying on Twitter...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that there are preliminary verification procedures on the poisoning of opposition figure Alexey Navalny, but a criminal investigation would require substantive materials, Sputnik reported. "As for the high-profile cases, the poisoning of a well-known figure. The checks are ongoing. We just cannot launch a...
An alleged suicide bomber has attacked a security service building in the southern Russian republic of Karachayevo-Cherkessia, injuring at least six, Sputnik, and authorities reported Friday. Russia’s National Anti-terrorism Committee (NAC) said the unidentified bomber detonated himself while authorities attempted to detain him in the village of Uchkeken some 1,500...
Russia's MiG-31 intercepted U.S. RC-135 reconnaissance plane over the Bering Sea, the national defense control center said Friday, Sputnik reported. According to the center, MiG-31 escorted the U.S. plane until it was far enough away from the Russian border. Earlier in October, MiG-31 and Su-35 escorted two Rockwell B-1 Lancer bombers. NATO...