Although vaccination against the coronavirus infection should not be mandatory, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a video conference on Wednesday that people should understand the importance of these shots, TASS reports.
Putin said that he believes that requiring obligatory vaccination is counterproductive and unnecessary, adding that the citizens should...
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on measures to support families with children and single women registered in early pregnancy, Russian media report.
According to the new law, which will enter into force on July 1, incomplete families with children from 8 to 17 years old will be assigned...
The Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has been approved for use in Slovakia, after the country's government decided to approve the Russian vaccine, along with a vaccination plan that will begin using Sputnik V on June 7, Russian media reported.
With this decision, Slovakia became the second EU state...
A Bulgarian embassy staffer has been deemed persona non grata by Russia, according to a statement released by the Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday.
The Russian Foreign Ministry invited Bulgarian Ambassador Atanas Krystin to provide him with a memo designating a Bulgarian embassy official persona non grata on May 26,...
On Tuesday, the Kremlin said it will make an announcement shortly about a potential meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden, Reuters reports.
On a conference call with reporters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow and Washington wanted to work together on cybersecurity to deter...
By the fall, 60 percent of Russia's adult population would be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko.
Murashko points out that in order to achieve this aim, vaccines must be available, and vaccination centers' hours of operation must be convenient for the general public. He went...
The anti-coronavirus crisis center in Russia recorded 7,884 new confirmed COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of cases to 5,017,795 cases, TASS reported.
According to the crisis center, new diseases are increasing at a rate of 0.16 percent each year. The Jewish Autonomous Region (0.02%)...
The European Union is strengthening its line to contain Russia by continuing to interfere in the country's internal affairs and expanding sanctions against its citizens and legal entities, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with the Argumenty i Fakty newspaper.
According to the RIA Novosti news agency, Lavrov...
On Tuesday, May 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, told TASS that a series of meetings on defense-related topics will begin.
Peskov, on the other hand, refused to reveal the main topics of the upcoming meetings.
Putin will speak with visiting Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov in Sochi on...
According to Kalashnikov Group CEO Dmitry Tarasov, the Russian National Guard has placed into operation the new Lebedev modular pistol, which was built by the Kalashnikov Group (part of the Rostec state-owned engineering company).
The Kalashnikov company told TASS two months ago that the Kalashnikov design and technical parts of...
