The small town of Verkhoyansk, home to 1,000 people in Russia's Yakutia region, broke the record on Saturday for the highest temperature ever recorded within the Arctic Circle, hitting a maximum of 38 degrees Celsius, Russia Today reported.
Verkhoyansk already held the record for the place with the greatest temperature...
Russia hopes that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will be finalized and it will help step up energy security in Europe in the future, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a televised interview on Russia’s Channel One on Saturday.
"Unconditionally, we are hoping that the project will be finalized...
Russia and Belarus negotiate patiently their economic disagreements, which will have no effect on their alliance, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a televised interview on Russia’s Channel One on Saturday, TASS writes.
"It is a country with which, of course, we have some problems on a number of parameters,...
Russia will not pressure China into acceding to the Russian-US nuclear arms reduction treaty (New START), Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said Saturday in an open interview with TASS First Deputy Director General Mikhail Gusman, commenting on Washington’s calls to get Beijing to the negotiating table.
"Regarding ...
On Friday, the Foreign Ministers of Russia and Belarus, Sergey Lavrov and Vladimir Makei, signed an intergovernmental agreement on mutual recognition of visas. The ceremony was part of Lavrov’s planned visit to Minsk. The new rules apply from July 1.
“The basis of the document is the full mutual recognition...
The course of the implementation of the Minsk agreements on settling the conflict in Ukraine makes it impossible to lift the European Union’s anti-Russian sanctions, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday after a videoconference meeting of the EU heads of state and government, TASS reports.
"Progress is not...
Norilsk Nickel will restore the fish population and will open a fish farm in northern Krasnoyarsk Region following the fuel spill at Norilsk’s thermal power plant in May, the company wrote on its Telegram channel, TASS informs.
"Nornickel will support fishing companies in the accident’s area: the money will be...
Russia has documented 7,889 cases of COVID-19, a disease caused by the novel coronavirus, in the past 24 hours, the anti-coronavirus crisis center informed reporters on Saturday. For four days running, the daily increase in new cases has not surpassed 8,000, TASS writes.
According to the crisis center, Russia has...
European Union leaders agreed on Friday to extend until the end of January next year their economic sanctions against Russia over its 2014 annexation of Crimea and the turmoil in eastern Ukraine, Reuters reported.
The EU hit Russia’s energy, financial and arms sectors over Moscow’s role in the conflict in...
Fitch Solutions has projected that Russia will grow its gold output and reserves in light of expanding US sanctions, which in turn would lead to Russian gold production growth overtaking that of China by 2029, Russia Today reported.
“The rising risk of Russian state banks being frozen out of dealing...
