President Vladimir Putin has accused the Russian Communist Party of calling on its supporters to reject constitutional changes because they “have always advocated the dictatorship of the proletariat” and seek its restoration, Russia Today reported.
The Communists are the only party represented in the country's parliament advocating a 'no' in...
Five deputy chief editors resigned from Vedomosti on Monday, after the newspaper’s parent company made Andrey Shmarov’s appointment as editor-in-chief permanent, Meduza reports.
Dmitry Simakov, Boris Safronov, Filipp Strekin, Kirill Kharatyan, and Alexander Gubsky all stepped down in protest. Gubsky had worked at Vedomosti since it was founded in 1999....
A total of 8,248 new COVID-19 cases have been identified across Russia over the past 24 hours, which takes the overall number of those who are known to have contracted the virus to 545,458, the anti-coronavirus center said, as reported by TASS.
The daily growth rate was 1.5% against 1.6%...
The first two multidisciplinary team of doctors who performed humanitarian work in the Caucasus region landed in Sheremetyevo International Airport on June 11 after a two-week mission to protect residents of the Caucasus from coronavirus infection.
The first mission, which worked in Vladikavkaz, was led by Konstantin Pokrovsky, the Head...
President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that Russia was emerging from the novel coronavirus epidemic with minimal losses, having handled it better than the United States where he said party political interests got in the way, Reuters said.
With 528,964 confirmed cases, Russia has the third-highest number of infections after...
Gazprombank and Gazprom, the shareholders of Belgazprombank with the share of 49.82% each, stated that appointment of the acting CEO to the Belarusian bank was unlawful, Russian companies said in a joint statement, TASS reported.
"Gazprombank and Gazprom as the shareholders of Belgazprombank state that on June 11, 2020, contrary...
Russia confirmed 8,246 new coronavirus infections Monday, bringing the country’s official number of cases to 537,210, The Moscow Times reported.
Over the past 24 hours, 143 people have died, bringing the total toll to 7,091 — a rate considerably lower than in many other countries hit hard by the pandemic.
A total of 4,489 people...
Almost a third of Moscow's doctors have Covid-19 antibodies, according to the most recent testing in the capital, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova announced on Saturday, Russia Today reports.
“In the first stage ,15,500 doctors were examined in 60 institutions. Antibodies were detected in 16.5% in the initial examination,”...
As a lot of key economies emerge from Covid-19 lockdowns, the financial cost of the pandemic is becoming apparent. With many countries already posting massive GDP falls in April and May, the alarm bells are ringing, Russia Today reports.
Some warn of a potential personal debt crisis, and others foresee...
The German government fears that new U.S. sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 project, if introduced, may for the first time affect German public administration, related to the project in one way or another, as well as German companies, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reported on Friday, with reference...
