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Russian IT security company Kaspersky Lab is striving to develop a hack-proof smartphone that would allow enterprises to process confidential data among other tech-novelties, the firm's CEO, Eugene Kaspersky, Sputnik reported. The company has already developed an operating system for embedded devices, and the version for the so-called internet of...

Estonia has installed a barbed-wire fence along an 8-kilometer section of its border with Russia in the first installment of its three-year border infrastructure project, media in the Baltic country reported Monday. Estonia began construction of border infrastructure stretching 23.5 kilometers from the Estonian-Latvian-Russian meeting point to the Luhamaa border crossing...

President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said on Monday the Kremlin hopes that two Russian journalists detained in Turkey will be released as soon as possible, The Moscow Times reported. Dmitry Peskov told reporters Russian diplomats were in contact with Turkish representatives to secure the release of two journalists working with Kremlin-friendly...

Russia confirmed 28,142 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours on Monday, including 7,279 in Moscow, pushing the national tally to 2,488,912 since the pandemic began, Reuters reported. Authorities said 456 people had died overnight, taking the official death toll to 43,597.

The world is a step away from introducing COVID-19 vaccines, which are crucial today for ensuring quality healthcare, World Health Organization (WHO) Representative in Russia Melita Vujnovic said on Monday during the Russian Scientific and Practical Conference with international participation "Medicine and Quality 2020". The conference is held online. "We...

Sheremetyevo International Airport was the launching point for the shipment of an early batch of Sputnik V, the Russian vaccine against coronavirus COVID-19 and the first vaccine developed in the world, from Moscow to Serbia this week. Serbian experts will decide on the use of the vaccine in the country...

A criminal case has been opened in Russia after mass forgeries of negative Covid-19 test certificates were discovered. The documents were found to be on sale online for 2,500 rubles ($33) each, RT reported. The Moscow City Prosecutors Office has reported that a criminal investigation is underway to discover who...

State corporation Rosatom expects to occupy at least a third of the Russian market of additive technologies by 2030, President of the Fuel Company of Rosatom (Tvel) Natalya Nikipelova announced on Thursday, TASS reported. "Rosatom state atomic energy corporation believes that by 2030 we will occupy a third or more...

The price of Brent crude, which fell to $47 per barrel ahead of the OPEC+ meeting, rose to almost $50 per barrel, rebounding on positive news about the decision reached by the participants to the oil production cut agreement. Now this is the maximum price and it is unlikely to...

Nature of the Arctic zone is extremely vulnerable, so any economic activity in the northern areas should be so organized that environmental risks are minimized there, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with volunteers held as a video conference on Saturday, TASS writes. A participant in the video...