A Russian cat lover has bought out all the seats in his train compartment for his feline friends, The Moscow Times reported.
A photo snapped by an eyewitness showing three cats gazing curiously out the window from the upper seats of a train compartment went viral on Russian social media...
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) will assist the inquiry into the massive pollution of the Pacific Ocean off Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, the regional government said in a statement on its website on Friday, TASS reported.
"We agreed that WWF will join the scientific team studying the environmental incident...
A Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Thursday that a decision by Poland to impose a hefty fine on Gazprom GAZP.MM for its part in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project was taken to please Washington, Interfax news agency reported.
According to Reuters, Poland on Wednesday fined the Russian...
Russian authorities recommended people stay at home this weekend and urged them to take more safety precautions as the number of new coronavirus cases shot up on Thursday to nearly the highest it has been since the pandemic began, Reuters reported.
Officials reported 11,493 new infections in the last 24...
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2020 Peace Prize to the UN World Food Program (WFP), TASS reported. The laureate has been announced by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Committee, on Friday.
The Committee awarded the prize to the WFP "for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution...
Russia continues to boost its gold and foreign exchange (forex) holdings, which have reached a total of $585.8 billion according to the latest data released by the country’s central bank, RT reported.
The nation’s international funds grew by $5.1 billion, or about 0.9 percent, from September 25 to October 2....
Russia’s state-owned infrastructure company Avtodor and Chinese tech giant Huawei have agreed to develop high-speed toll roads in Russia, RT reported.
According to Avtodor’s press service, the partners have agreed “to identify new potential areas and projects for cooperation in the construction and operation of expressways in Russia, including on...
The Belarusian Oil Company (BNK) has resumed supplies of oil products to Russia since October 1, the company’s Deputy Director General Sergei Kamornikov said on Wednesday, TASS writes.
"The supplies of Belarusian oil products to the Russian Federation have been resumed. Sales are carried out by BNK in cooperation with...
Moscow considers unacceptable the joint statement by leaders of Foreign Ministries of Germany and France with the call to introduce sanctions against the Russian Federation due to the situation with Alexey Navalny, the commentary of Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova made public on Wednesday said, TASS reports.
"The statement...
Head of the department of pulmonology of the Sechenov University, chief non-resident pulmonologist of Russia’s Healthcare Ministry Sergey Avdeyev considers the current restrictive measures for the prevention of the novel coronavirus infection insufficient since citizens continue to ignore the safety precautions, particularly in public places, TASS reports.
"From the medical...
