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Germany may create a special fund to bypass restrictions imposed by the US government on the Russian-led gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2, Bild tabloid has reported, quoting unnamed sources, RT writes. The slush fund is aimed at tackling the problems of climate change, and may identify the project as...
Russian energy major Gazprom has seen a dramatic fall in net profits for the first nine months of 2020, which fell to 218 billion rubles ($2.9 billion) from nearly 1.1 trillion rubles ($14.5 billion) a year ago, RT reported. In its report published on Monday, Gazprom said that overall net...
Russian citizens will be provided with vaccines against the coronavirus on a priority basis, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday, TASS reported. "Naturally, Russians are an absolute priority," Peskov said. According to him, domestic production in Russia, which is being developed now, will meet Russians’ demands in the...
As many as 589 coronavirus deaths were recorded in Russia in the past 24 hours, the highest daily number since the beginning of the pandemic, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Wednesday, TASS informed. According to data from the crisis center, 1.75% of coronavirus patients have died in the country. In...
Russian President Vladimir Putin does not make decisions to counter the opposition, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday, TASS reported. "These positions are not taken into account," he said, answering a corresponding question. Peskov was asked to comment on the statement made by Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny in...
Russia has the right to expect that the United States will start reckoning with legitimate interests of other foreign players under the new administration, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Kazakhstan's international news agency Kazinform, Sputnik reported. "As President Vladimir Putin has said: 'We analyse it...
Russian authorities are probing opposition figure Alexei Navalny’s comments during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic for inciting extremism, news agencies quoted law enforcement sources as saying Tuesday. According to The Moscow Times, investigators are reportedly examining whether Navalny’s April 27 interview with the liberal Ekho Moskvy radio station...
Russian President Vladimir Putin does not plan to meet with Russia’s major oil companies before a crucial OPEC+ meeting on Thursday, the Kremlin said on Tuesday, Reuters reported. OPEC and allies led by Russia postponed talks on oil output policy for 2021 to Thursday, as key players still disagreed on...
Turkey and Russia have concluded an agreement to set up a joint center for monitoring ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Turkish Defense Ministry said on Tuesday, TASS reported. "Negotiations have been completed on the technical details concerning the basics and principles of operation of a joint Turkish-Russian center. An agreement has...
Yandex has switched its Internet search engine to a new text analysis technology based on transforming neural networks. The company notes that this is the most significant event for this product over the past 10 years, ICT Moscow reported. YATI technology (Yet Another Transformer With Improvements) allowed Yandex search engine...