According to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, the gas that Russia supplies for Europe via the Nord Stream has a carbon footprint four times lesser than U.S. gas, TASS reports.
Russia, Novak claims, places a high priority on maintaining its environmental leadership. On Thursday, Jennifer Granholm, head of the...
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which promotes the vaccine overseas, said on Thursday that Russia has struck a deal to supply the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) with enough doses of its Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine for 110 million individuals, Reuters reported.
The vaccine's procurement and distribution are contingent...
Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov commented on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's statement that Vladimir Putin allegedly apologized to him for talking about Belarus with US President Joe Biden, Kommersant reports.
According to Peskov, it was just a figure of speech and the Russian president did not apologize, but informed his...
Ozon's chief operating officer informed Reuters that the company aims to reach $34 billion in online transaction volumes in five years, accounting for a third of Russia's rapidly expanding e-commerce market.
Ozon, one of Russia's largest e-commerce companies, reported triple-digit gross merchandise volume (GMV) growth for the sixth quarter in...
On Thursday, Russia's Health Minister Mikhail Murashko told the RIA news agency that at least one dosage of the COVID-19 vaccination had been given to about 17 million individuals.
According to the data, roughly 3 million individuals have received the first dosage of one of Russia's vaccinations in the last...
On Thursday, a Russian court said that Twitter had received two fines totaling 7 million rubles ($95,310) for failing to erase unlawful information, Reuters reports.
In recent months, Russia has made moves to control and limit the dominance of social media and technological behemoths.
Later in the day, further penalties are...
Spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that Moscow is doing all possible to guarantee that the rights of Russian citizen Sofia Sapega, who was detained in Minsk with opposition activist Roman Protasevich, be respected, as reported by TASS.
The envoy also warned against leaping to...
Russia verified 9,039 COVID-19 cases in the last day, bringing the overall number of cases to 5,035,207, according to the anti-coronavirus crisis center.
In relative terms, the COVID-19 instances increased by 0.18 percent.
Over the last day, Moscow has confirmed 3,105 additional COVID-19 instances. In St. Petersburg, there were 836 COVID-19...
According to the Interfax news agency, Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzor said on Wednesday that Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms must have databases of Russian users on Russian territory by July 1 or face fines.
As part of Moscow's broader efforts to exercise much more control over Big Tech,...
The World Bank raised its forecasts for Russian economic growth in 2021, citing signs of improvement in the labor market, but warned that planned fiscal consolidation could stymie the expansion.
The Russian economy is on track to rebound this year, after contracting by 3% in 2020 due to the COVID-19...
