Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko has informed that Russia increases levels of production of vaccines against the coronavirus infection weekly. She noted this during her meeting with Chair of the Senate (upper chamber) of the Parliament of Kazakhstan Maulen Ashimbayev on Thursday, TASS writes.
"We launched mass inoculation. The...
U.S. trade restrictions and new rules for obtaining export licenses for foreign partners have affected the timing of the implementation of Russia's Irkut MC-21 aircraft program, but airline companies are still set to start receiving the aircraft in 2022, Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation and Rostec confirmed on Thursday.
"The trade...
Russia restricts air service with Turkey and suspends flights to Tanzania from Thursday, April 15 to June 1 in line with the decision of the federal anti-coronavirus crisis center, TASS reports.
Thus, all cargo, passenger and chartered flights and nearly all regular flights between Russia and Turkey will be suspended,...
Russia confirmed 8,944 COVID-19 cases over the past day, bringing the total caseload to 4,675,153, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters, TASS reports.
The growth rate stands at 0.19% in relative terms.
The lowest growth rates were registered over the past day in the Nenets Autonomous Region and the Chukotka Autonomous...
Aeroflot has put into operation a new 15,000-square-meter hangar, where all types of Western- and Russian-built aircraft will be serviced.
The hangar is located in the Northern Terminal Complex of Sheremetyevo International Airport. The hangar comprises three scheduled and unscheduled maintenance workshops, two cabin interior maintenance workshops, aircraft and component...
Seeking to further develop the Arctic region, where the Northern Sea Route lies, Russia is building powerful icebreakers no one has ever made before, President Vladimir Putin said, RT writes.
“Russia is building the world’s most powerful icebreaker fleet, including giants such as the ‘Leader’, which no one has ever...
Russia will use other opportunities if it is disconnected from SWIFT, but Moscow is not rejecting the system yet, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin told Sputnik.
"We are not abandoning SWIFT yet, but if we are denied SWIFT, we will use ," Pankin said.
He said the issue of possible...
President Vladimir Putin announced Wednesday that he has received his second Covid-19 vaccine shot with one of Russia's domestically developed jabs and that he hoped Russians would follow his example.
Putin, 68, received his first dose on March 23, The Moscow Times reports.
“I want to inform you that right now, before...
Ingka Group, the owner of most IKEA stores world-wide, has agreed to buy a 49-percent stake in eight solar parks in Russia from Solar Systems LLC, marking its first investment in renewable energy in the country, Reuters reports.
The total book value for the eight parks is more than 21...
