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Russia is expanding COVID-19 express tests to other major air hubs in Moscow after using them at the country's busiest airport, Sheremetyevo, in the capital, the Russian Direct Investment Fund said on Wednesday, Reuters writes. The portable testing system, which fits in two small suitcases, gives results within an hour...

Russia recorded 5,267 new coronavirus cases in the past day and the total caseload in the country reached 871,894, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Thursday. Of these, 684 COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Moscow, 183 - in the Svedlovsk Region, 160 - in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region,...

Russia’s second largest lender VTB Bank revised up its retail lending growth forecast for 2020 to around 6% from a base scenario of 1.8% in May, a board member said on Wednesday, citing low real interest rates and increasing mortgage loans, Reuters reported. The central bank cut its benchmark interest...

A new Russian medicine appears to be effective against Covid-19, Russia Today reported. All volunteers inoculated by the Vector State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology, in the Siberian capital, are in good health, it was announced on Tuesday. Shortly afterwards. Russian medics revealed the results of the pilot part...

A consultative draft of Russian green finance guidelines has been published, which includes controversial practices such as upgrades to thermal power plants, and coal to natural gas conversion, Environment Finance reported. The guidelines have been developed by Russian state development corporation VEB.RF, which first outlined the proposals to Environmental Finance in April this...

London significantly overestimates its importance in the Russian politics by constantly accusing Moscow of meddling into the United Kingdom’s internal affairs, Russia’s UK Ambassador Andrei Kelin said in an interview with Daily Mail. "I feel that Britain exaggerates, very much, its place in Russian thinking. The scope and place of...

The average daily oil and gas condensate production in Russia from July 1 to 29 was at the level of 1.281 mln tonnes, according to the data released by the Central Dispatching Department of Fuel Energy Complex (CDU TEK) on Monday. This is 0.7% above the average daily oil...

Crimea received about 1.5 million tourists in July, Head of the republic Sergey Aksenov said on Tuesday, TASS reported. "From July 1 to July 31, 1.432 mln tourists vacationed in Crimea. Of these, 31.9% arrived by air, 62.7% - via Crimean Bridge by cars and buses, 5% - by rail,...

American Crew Dragon spacecraft with astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard has undocked from the International Space Station on Saturday at 19:35 US east coast time, NASA is broadcasting live. The spacecraft is expected to splash down off Florida’s coast on Sunday at 14:42 local time. Deputy Manager for...

Russia's flagship carrier Aeroflot is not planning to fire staff in the near future, CEO Vitaly Saveliev said in an interview with TASS project Top Business Officials. "We haven’t cut a single job and we have no plans to do this in the near future. We hope that the situation...