Tuesday, August 11, 2026
About 20% of Russian catering establishments were forced to close by the beginning of the third stage of lifting all restrictions related to the pandemic, Sergey Mironov, Vice-President of the Federation of Restaurateurs and Hoteliers of Russia (FRHR), public ombudsman in the restaurant business at the office of the...
Another 86 volunteers will be inoculated with the vaccine against the novel coronavirus developed by the Vektor State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology during the second stage of clinical trials, the press service of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing told TASS...
The average daily number of the coronavirus infections in Moscow for over a month has remained at the consistently low level. The rate of the daily growth in new cases since the beginning of August has not surpassed the 0.28 mark, the anti-coronavirus crisis center reported on Thursday, TASS...
Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has described Russian President Vladimir Putin as his elder brother, TASS reported. "I regard Putin as my elder brother, and I sincerely believe that he is my brother," Lukashenko told Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon in a TV interview. "Not in the sense one in command as...
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has handed down instructions to invite the Russian and Ukrainian prosecutor generals to sort out the case of Russian nationals detained in Belarus, the BelTA news agency reported. The prosecutor generals of the three countries need to "sit down together" and "make a decision on these...
One of the great mysteries in US/UK analysis of Russia is the apparently almost universally accepted belief that the implosion of Putin's system would somehow gift Moscow 'back' to the West, resetting the clock to the 1990s, Russia Today reported. The general consensus seems to be that Russians are secretly...
The coronavirus crisis will lead to global oil demand dropping by around 8 percent this year compared to last year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a new report, as carried by Qatari daily The Penunsula, Russia Today reported. This year, oil prices will be 41 percent lower than...
Russian bank TCS Group Holding reported on Thursday a 25% rise in second-quarter net profit, but said it expects full-year earnings to fall as it reintroduced guidance after scrapping it last quarter due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Reuters reported. The Russian banking sector has taken a hit from the coronavirus...
Russia’s Oryol latest spacecraft will be able to fly to asteroids and Mars as part of an inter-planetary system, Oryol Chief Designer Igor Khamits said in an interview with the Russian Space magazine published by the federal space agency Roscosmos, TASS writes. "The technical specifications do not stipulate a flight...
Russian companies confirmed requests for supplies of 1.21 mln tonnes of crude oil to Belarus in August, press secretary of Belneftekhim holding Alexander Tischenko told reporters on Wednesday, TASS reports. "Russian companies confirmed requests for supply of 1.21 mln tonnes of oil to Belarus in August, including 77,000 tonnes to...