Russia has delivered the first known batch of Sputnik V vaccines for civilian use to a hospital just south of Moscow, which said on Monday it began vaccinating the local population last week, Reuters reported.
Russia, which is rushing to keep up with Western drug makers in the race for...
The coronavirus pandemic is unlikely to end in the coming months, the World Health Organization's representative in Russia Melita Vujnovic said in an interview with TASS.
In response to a question, she pointed out that the pandemic would end "once a vaccine makes it possible to reach the necessary level of...
Russia plans to begin mass trials of its second coronavirus vaccine, EpiVacCorona, on people aged over 18 on Monday, the RIA news agency cited the consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor as saying.
According to Reuters, EpiVacCorona, which is being developed by Siberia’s Vector Institute, was authorised this month to carry out...
There are not the same strong differences between Russia and the OPEC oil group as had been the case in early 2020, a Kremlin spokesman said on Monday, as leading oil producers debate the future of their deal on output cuts, Reuters reported.
The oil talks initially collapsed in March...
Spending on Black Friday was down by almost 40% in Russia, payments data from Sberbank, the country’s largest lender, has shown, The Moscow Times reported.
While e-commerce sites reported some of their best Black Fridays ever, Russian shoppers stayed away from stores and malls as the country has reported record...
Moscow has been selected as one of the pilot regions to implement the global policy roadmap for the responsible use of digital technologies. Cooperation with members of the G20 Smart Cities Alliance will allow Moscow to share its accumulated experience and analyze the world's best practices in the use...
Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny urged the EU on Friday to put targeted economic sanctions on the oligarchs surrounding President Vladimir Putin, The Moscow Times reported.
"There is no sense in sanctioning colonels or generals or some people who are definitely not traveling a lot," Navalny told MEPs by video...
Russia scrambled an Su-27 fighter jet to intercept a U.S. RC-135 reconnaissance plane flying over neutral waters in the Black Sea, the RIA news agency cited the Russian Defense Ministry as saying on Saturday.
According to a Reuters report, Russia said its warplane returned to its base after the U.S....
The Nord Stream 2 AG project company operating the construction of Nord Stream 2 pipeline plans to resume pipe-laying work this December, the company told TASS.
"Yes, we can confirm that. We are planning to resume pipe-laying work using an anchor-positioned vessel in Germany’s exclusive economic zone this year. We...
Russia’s coronavirus cases grew by 27,100 in the past 24 hours reaching 2,242,633, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Saturday, TASS reported.
According to the crisis center, the growth rate dropped from 1.3% to 1.2%.
The lowest daily growth rates were recorded in the Nenets autonomous region (0.3%), Dagestan, the...
