The Brazilian state of Bahia has signed an agreement to conduct Phase 3 clinical trials for Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 and plans to buy 50 million doses to market in Brazil, officials said on Thursday, Reuters reported.
Governor Rui Costa said a confidentiality agreement was signed on Tuesday...
Sheremetyevo International Airport served 11,228,000 passengers in the first seven months of 2020, including 1,459,000 in July. These figures, which include infants under two years of age, correspond to the state of the world market for passenger air transportation, according to a recent study by the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
There were...
In an interview with Julia Payne of Reuters, Mariam Almaszade CEO of SOCAR Trading, announced that the firm has returned to expansion mode, aims to increase its presence in liquefied natural gas (LNG) and U.S. crude. The expansion follows the firm’s reorganization two years ago and strong results for the first...
Russian financial markets remain under pressure as talk of sanctions in response to the poisoning of leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navanly ramps up and fears of a second coronavirus wave knock oil prices, The Moscow Times reported.
The Russian ruble is still trading at around its lowest level against the...
Moscow's Gamaleya Institute, which created the world's first Covid-19 vaccine, has sent "detailed responses" to the questions posed by British medical journal The Lancet, after a group of scientists criticized the Russian data, RT reported.
On September 7, an open letter signed by twenty-six analysts, mainly based in Italy, cast...
Russia's natural gas monopoly Gazprom has increased its natural gas supply to China via the new pipeline Power of Siberia in July and August, compared to June, a senior Gazprom official said, Russia Today reports.
Russia's supply of natural gas to China via the Power of Siberia rose to 12...
The laser assembly for spacecraft, capable of displaying advertisement from space, has passed stratosphere tests, Avant Space, the developer, told TASS Thursday.
"The laser assembly was launched to the stratosphere, to an altitude of about 30 kilometers, in order to confirm the calculated light source power in conditions, similar to...
The global COVID-19 death toll has exceeded 900,000 Thursday, according to the Johns Hopkins University statistics, TASS reported.
The U.S. leads with 190,649 victims, followed by Brazil (127,464) and India (73,890).
A total of 27 million people have contracted the infection around the world, the University says.
According to the Russian federal...
Russia’s coronavirus cases grew by 5,363 in the past day, a record high figure since August 3, the anti-coronavirus crisis center reported on Thursday, TASS reported.
Russia’s COVID-19 case tally reached 1,046,370, the center reported. According to its data, the daily growth rate in the past 26 days did not...
Russia and Cyprus signed a new deal Tuesday to hike the taxes that Russian companies have to pay on profits they send to holding companies incorporated on the Mediterranean island, The Moscow Times reported.
Most Russia-based firms will now have to pay a 15% tax on dividend payments they send...
