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Russia saw a new high of 23,610 coronavirus cases over the past day and the total case tally rose to 2,015,608, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said, TASS reported. The average growth rate increased to 1.2%. Moscow confirmed 6,438 coronavirus cases in the past day versus 4,174 a day earlier. This is...
Russia’s lumber, wildlife and water resources have a combined worth of 6 trillion rubles ($94.2 billion), the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry has estimated, according to RBC. The Russian economy is heavily reliant on exports of its resources. Last week, the ministry said that the combined worth of its oil,...
Russia’s coronavirus cases in the past day rose by 25,487, the highest figure since the start of the pandemic, and the total case tally reached 2,187,990, the anti-coronavirus crisis center reported on Thursday, TASS reported. The previous high of 25,173 coronavirus cases was confirmed on November 23. The average growth...
Russian pharmaceutical companies Petrovax and Intellodzhik are conducting a study of Longidaza among patients who had COVID-19. The study is based on the Botkin.AI artificial intelligence platform. This is the first study in Russia and one of the first projects in the world, in the process of which AI...
Investors from Great Britain bought nearly half of offered last week by Russian gold producer Polyus’s controlling shareholder, deal book-runner VTB Capital has said, according to TASS. Polyus said on Thursday that its controlling shareholder, Polyus Gold International Ltd (PGIL), had sold a 3.84 percent stake in the company via...
Strong investor interest in the market debut of one of Russia’s leading e-commerce platforms, Ozon, helped the company to raise more than $1.2 billion when it went public last month, RT reported. Ozon announced the results of its dual initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq and the Moscow Exchange...
The Russian government is moving to take tighter control of debt in the country’s regions, the build-up of which nearly caused a crisis only two years ago, RIA news agency reports. The State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes is supporting a proposal by the Finance Ministry to tighten control...
Russia on Wednesday confirmed 26,509 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, including 5,028 in Moscow, pushing the national tally to 2,734,454, Reuters reports. Authorities said 596 people had died overnight, taking the official death toll to 48,564.