The head of a top Russian research center told President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that his lab was ready to start human trials of experimental coronavirus vaccines in June, RIA Novosti reported.
Rinat Maksyutov, head of the Vektor State Virology and Biotechnology Center, said his facility proposed first-phase clinical trials...
Russia and Saudi Arabia meet with other countries Thursday on cutting oil production while they continue a price war that has driven down U.S. gasoline and oil prices, Reuters writes.
Oil rebounded on Wednesday after a two-day fall, lifted by hopes that the meeting between OPEC members and allied producers...
There are two options on how flights will resume from Moscow's biggest airport, the co-owner of Sheremetyevo Airport Alexander Ponomarenko tells Forbes in an interview.
"We have two scenarios. According to the first one, international flights will resume in July and passenger traffic will gradually recover by the end of...
Russian banks have asked the central bank to resume buying gold for its reserves with exports of the precious metal hobbled by the coronavirus outbreak, their lobby group said, according to Reuters.
The country is the world's third-largest gold producer after China and Australia but the almost global grounding of...
As Moscow recently signaled a possibility of a new oil deal with Riyadh, the forthcoming OPEC+ summit scheduled for April 9 can become a historic event, Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes.
This week, both countries, currently involved in an oil price war that is destroying demand, have made it clear that a...
Amid a sharp increase in the popularity of video calls, one of Russia’s top IT companies, Mail.ru Group, has decided to relaunch and rebrand its ICQ messenger with a focus on group communication, Kommersant reports.
The company has been running the messenger since 2010, and since 2017 it has also...
Experts interviewed by Izvestia say Russia should set up a center for collecting donor blood plasma from patients who have recovered from a coronavirus infection.
Such a center has recently been opened in the United States, where the number of infected people is much greater than in Russia. The plasma...
Sheremetyevo International Airport has announced additional measures prevent the importation and spread of the COVID-19 virus in Russia, while protecting passengers, the company said.
These measures will implement the directives of the Operational Headquarters of the Government of the Russian Federation on the prevention of the importation and spread of...
The Russian economy may lose 3% of its GDP, or 3.3 trillion rubles ($43 billion) by the end of the year due to the non-working month of April, experts told Izvestia.
Economists believe that the country will face a recession over several quarters, with the service, transport, tourism, construction, and...
Russia’s business ombudsman Boris Titov believes businesses are to be allowed to put employees on indefinite leaves to be paid monthly statutory minimum wages by the state in order to save jobs, SM News reports.
In a letter to President Vladimir Putin, the ombudsman has formulated this initiative and a...
