Russian courts on Monday fined two Pussy Riot activists for hanging rainbow flags on several government buildings last month to mark President Vladimir Putin's birthday, The Moscow Times reported.
On Oct. 7 — Putin's 68th birthday — members of the anti-Kremlin punk group draped the flags associated with LGBT pride...
President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic and Chief Executive Officer of Gazprom Neft Alexander Dyukov gave a start to operation of the deep refining unit at the Pancevo Refinery owned by Serbia’s NIS, a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft, the Russian oil producer says on Wednesday, TASS reported.
The refinery will increase...
The coronavirus pandemic has triggered a systemic economic crisis, unprecedented since the Great Depression, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, addressing the G20 summit on Saturday, TASS reported.
"The scale of problems that mankind faced in 2020 is indeed unprecedented. The coronavirus pandemic, a global lockdown and suspended economic activities triggered...
Russia’s coronavirus cases grew by 24,581 in the past day to a total of 2,089,329, the crisis center told reporters on Sunday, TASS informed.
In the past three days, the number of new cases of infection exceeded 24,000. According to the crisis center, the average growth rate over the past...
Nearly 35 million cases of infectious diseases are registered in Russia yearly, with children accounting for up to 80% of such cases, Yuri Lobzin, director of the research and clinical center for children’s infectious diseases of the Russian Medical Biological Agency, said on Friday, TASS informs.
"Infections are a permanent...
The Russian Armed Forces received 11% more armament and military hardware in 2020 than the previous year, Chief of Russia’s National Defense Control Center Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev reported on Friday, TASS reported.
"In close inter-agency cooperation at the country’s shipyards, 35 submarines and surface ships were laid down, floated...
Russia’s border guard service FSB will deploy reinforcements to the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov said at a meeting chaired by President Vladimir Putin, TASS informed.
"In accordance with the decision made to maintain the border security of the Republic of Armenia and measures to maintain...
The Russian authorities plan to attract 1 trillion rubles ($13.1 bln) of non-budgetary funds for the construction of roads in the country in the next three years, Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin told reporters during the Transport Week, TASS writes.
"We have set the task of attracting extra-budgetary money -...
The German Eastern Business Association (OAOEV) has called on the US to abandon sanctions against the companies involved in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, the Handelsblatt newspaper reported on Friday, TASS reports.
The newspaper cites the letter OAOEV sent to Speaker of the US House of...
Phase 3 of the clinical trial of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has shown that it is highly effective, the head of the Health Ministry's department for medical help to children, Elena Baibarina said, as reported by Sputnik.
"Phase 3, which is currently underway, shows that the effectiveness is very,...
