Russia’s fragmented e-commerce market is forecast to grow by more than 40% to 2.5 trillion roubles ($32.4 billion) this year, according to Euromonitor research group, and by 10-15% a year over the next five years, Reuters reported.
Revenues at Ozon, a Russian version of U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc, surged...
Russia identified 21,983 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, hitting an all-time high, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Friday, Reuters reported.
The previous all-time high of 21,798 cases was recorded in the country on November 9.
The overall case tally has reached 1,880,551.
In particular, 5,974 patients were identified in...
The Russian Direct Investment Fund and South Korea’s GL Rapha have made an agreement to produce the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in South Korea, according to a press release published on a website dedicated to the vaccine, TASS writes.
"The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund), and...
Clinical trials of the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus in children may start in May - June 2021, Director of the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology of the Russian Healthcare Ministry Alexander Gintsburg said on Wednesday, as reported by TASS.
"It is possible to start trials...
Russia reported a record high of 439 new deaths related to the novel coronavirus on Thursday, taking the official death toll to 32,032, Reuters reported.
Authorities also reported 21,608 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, including 5,997 in the capital Moscow, bringing the national tally to 1,858,568.
Sheremetyevo International airport handled approximately 205,000 tonnes of cargo and 21,500 tonnes of mail in the first nine months of 2020, retaining its position as the largest air cargo hub in Russia and is the leader in cargo traffic among the Moscow Air Transportation Cluster airports with a 70.8%...
China’s Tibet Rhodiola Pharmaceutical Holding announced a deal on Wednesday to manufacture, sell and test Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine in China, hours after interim results showed it was 92% effective at protecting people from the disease, Reuters reported.
The initial results of the Sputnik V vaccine are only the second to...
The developers of Russia’s pioneering Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine say their formula appears to show 92 percent efficacy and no serious side effects, based on the preliminary results of a large-scale Phase III clinical trial, RT reported.
The vaccine is being tested in a large-scale double-blind survey involving 40,000 volunteers....
Washington has reached an agreement to include additional sanctions against Russia’s natural gas pipeline to Germany in a must-pass defense bill, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the issue, RT writes.
According to the report, the fresh sanctions against Gazprom’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline would target insurance and...
