Monday, August 10, 2026
Russia may support keeping cuts in global oil output unchanged after 2020, when they are due to be eased, if world markets worsen due to sluggish demand and a surge in new coronavirus cases, two industry sources told Reuters. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and other producers led...
The Kremlin on Tuesday denied allegations that Russia had sought to disrupt next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo through hacking efforts, Reuters reported. Britain and the United States on Monday condemned what they said were a litany of malicious cyberattacks orchestrated by Russian military intelligence. “Russia has never carried...
The main advantages of EpiVacCorona, the COVID-19 vaccine developed by the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology Vector in the Russian city of Novosibirsk, are its effectiveness, safety and simplicity of production, the center's Director-General Rinat Maksyutov said on Monday. "The expected advantage of this vaccine compared to other...
Russia said on Tuesday it would be ready to freeze its total number of nuclear warheads if the United States did the same in order to extend their last major arms control treaty by a year, Reuters reported. The offer, two weeks before the U.S. presidential election, appeared to narrow...
The United States has charged 10 Russian nationals with smuggling $50 million worth of mainly stolen iPhones and other Apple products, the Justice Department said Monday. The investigation has led the State Department to revoke 113 visas of current and former employees of Russia’s flagship carrier Aeroflot suspected of participating in the...
Russia recorded a record high 16,319 new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, including 4,999 in the capital Moscow, to take the national total to 1,431,635, Reuters reported. Authorities reported 269 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking Russia’s official death toll to 24,635.
Russia pays more than 1 billion rubles ($12.9 million) in compensations awarded in accordance with decisions delivered by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Russia’s Representative to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Deputy Minister of Justice Mikhail Galperin said Monday, according to TASS. "We pay more than...
Aeroflot will resume flights from Moscow to Tokyo on November 5, the airline said. The carrier will also increase the number of flights to Belarus, Switzerland and the Maldives, TASS reported. "From November 5, regular flights to Japan will resume. The first flight to Tokyo is scheduled for November 5,...
The authorities in Belarus have moved to house arrest a high-profile American political analyst and strategist held for over two-and-a-half months in jail as President Alexander Lukashenko cracks down on opponents, his lawyer said on Monday, as reported by The Moscow Times. Vitali Shkliarov, a Harvard University fellow who has...
The coronavirus outbreak and warmer-than-average winter season in Europe may push Russian natural gas exports down by 16 percent this year, Russia’s National Rating Agency (NRA) has warned, RT reported. Global demand for blue fuel may contract between four and five percent in 2020 compared to the previous year, marking...