Sunday, June 28, 2026
The number of new cases of COVID-19 in Russia increased by 9462, to a total of 4,922,901. 3818 cases of the disease were recorded in the capital, which is the maximum since January 17, when 4012 cases were noted. In St. Petersburg, 739 people were infected in 24 hours,...
Russian low-cost airline Pobeda, a member of the Aeroflot Group, together with Sheremetyevo International Airport announced the launching of a full-scale flight program for the airline Sheremetyevo, the airport's press service reports. Pobeda began operating flights from Sheremetyevo as part of the implementation of the Aeroflot Group's strategy, which involves...
Russia has confirmed a total of 9,462 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours. According to official data released by Russia's anti-coronavirus center, as quoted by the TASS news agency, this is the highest number of cases registered since March 20. The average growth rate is now standing at...
The Russian government will allocate almost 5 billion rubles this year for children's tourist cashback and almost 1 billion rubles in the form of subsidies to airlines that flew Russians out of Turkey and Tanzania, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said. Air traffic with Turkey and Tanzania was interrupted due...
The annual growth in food prices in early May slowed to 6.6% from 7.6% in March, according to info from a meeting held by Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov on price monitoring. In particular, for the annual period as of May 4, 2021, price growth slowed down...
Lawmakers are preparing a bill which will oblige large foreign IT companies to open representative offices in Russia. For the refusal to fulfill this requirement, the draft law provides economic sanctions up to the prohibition of advertising and blocking payments to the resource, according to MP Alexander Khinshtein. Khinshtein clarified...
Russia's Ministry of Finance proposed to specify the rules for taxation of income of foreign organizations from interest on debt obligations of organizations and individual entrepreneurs from Russia. The proposal is to amend Article 309 of the Tax Code, which, among other things, includes interest income on the debt obligations...
The weighted average rate on ruble loans provided by Russian banks to individuals for up to a year, including on-demand loans, in March 2021 decreased to 13.08% from 13.55% in February, having updated the absolute minimum, according to information on the website of the Russian Central Bank. In March, short-term...
The Russian pharmaceutical company R-Pharm will manufacture the AstraZeneca vaccine against coronavirus. The first batch of the drug produced in the Russian Federation will be released in June, R-Pharm CEO Vasily Ignatiev told RBC. The vaccine will be produced for export, not for civilian circulation. According to Ignatiev, it is...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken during today's telephone conversation agreed to hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Arctic Council, which will be held in Iceland on May 19, as reported by Kommersant. During the conversation, Sergei Lavrov and Anthony Blinken...