Introduction of a new lockdown due to the spread of the coronavirus in Russia is not being considered currently, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Friday, according to TASS.
"As far as I know, this is not being considered now, as far as I know, it is not discussed,"...
The Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property, commonly known as Rospatent, told Sputnik on Wednesday it had granted the Vector research center patents for its COVID-19 vaccine. Earlier in the day, it was announced that Vector had finished the clinical trials of its vaccine against coronavirus.
"The Research Center of...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the situation in Belarus in a phone call, and Moscow reiterated its position on the inadmissibility of attempts to interfere in the country's internal affairs, the Kremlin said in a statement, as reported by Sputnik News.
The sides also agreed...
Moscow’s mayor Sergei Sobyanin ordered employers on Thursday to send at least 30% of their staff home to work, to halt coronavirus infections that are now rising by around 2,000 a day in the Russian capital, Reuters reported.
Writing on his blog, Sobyanin said hospitalization of people with COVID-19 were...
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s request to fully prohibit the export of round timber starting in 2022 has split the timber industry into two camps, TASS reported citing Kommersant. If major corporations, which often face the lack of raw materials, consider the measure useful, those companies that don’t have processing...
Azerbaijan's state energy company SOCAR on Tuesday said the country's oil and gas infrastructure was safe thanks to measures taken by the army amid military conflict in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The worst spate of fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan since the 1990s has raged in the Armenian-occupied region of...
Russia, for the first time in 11 years, plans to launch two new modules to the International Space Station (ISS) in April and September 2021, a source in the rocket and space industry told Sputnik.
In late July, Russian state space corporation Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin announced that the...
Almost 90 percent of the 129,000 hospital beds allocated for Covid-19 patients in Russia are occupied. That's according to Alexey Kuznetsov, an assistant to the country's Health Minister, who was speaking on Tuesday.
Kuznetsov's comments came as it was revealed that the number of daily cases in Russia has...
The ruble will undoubtedly rebound from recent losses as it has done before, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said after the currency touched multi-month lows on Tuesday, Russia Today informed.
The greenback rose against the Russian currency, which was trading around 79 rubles to one US dollar – the lowest...
The highway bridge linking Russia and China over the Amur River is expected to be operational as soon as November, according to Amur Oblast Governor Vasily Orlov. The bridge is set to boost economic ties between the two nations, Russia Today reports.
“The infrastructure and all the services are ready....
