The situation is worsening in those Russian regions, which made decisions on lifting COVID-19 restrictions, and deterioration is such cases is inevitable, Russia’s chief sanitary doctor Anna Popova said, as reported by TASS.
"Two weeks after such decisions we again see a growing incidence rate among senior citizens and...
Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced a proposal at a meeting on the space sector development on Monday to increase salaries for cosmonauts by 50-70%, TASS reports.
"I suggest increasing by 50% the salary of those who have already been in space and have been holding prominent positions in the cosmonaut...
Russia has claimed new slices of the continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean in two fresh submissions to the United Nations, The Moscow Times reports.
According to its March 31 submissions, Russia is seeking to define the outer limits of its continental shelf to include the Gakkel Ridge, the Lomonosov...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has not yet been able to speak to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss the escalating conflict in eastern Ukraine despite lodging a request to do so, Zelenskiy’s spokeswoman said on Monday, as reported by Reuters.
Kyiv and Moscow have traded blame over the worsening...
Russian speakers in Donbass have been rejected by their own state and Russia considers it a priority to protect their interests, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday, TASS reported.
"Russia believes that it is important to take care of the interests of Russian speakers around the world in general," he...
The United States perceived the news of Yuri Gagarin’s spaceflight on April 12, 1961 with alarm as Moscow outpaced Washington in the space race but there were no doubts about a true historic event, former NASA Administrator (2009-2017) Charles Bolden told TASS on Monday.
The NASA ex-chief said he was...
One of the lowest unemployment rates among the largest cities in the world was recorded in Moscow at the end of last year, it amounted to 2.5%, according to the official website of the mayor and the government of the capital, released on Friday, TASS writes.
According to international experts,...
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address to the parliament, the Federal Assembly, on April 21 will be devoted to ironing out the crisis after COVID-19 and support measures, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with Moscow. Kremlin. Putin program, TASS reported.
According to Peskov, the state-of-the-nation address will focus...
In March, Russian gem miner Alrosa recorded a threefold year-on-year surge in sales of polished diamonds. At the same time, sales of rough diamonds more than doubled, according to the latest data revealed by the producer, RT reported.
In monetary terms, sales of rough diamonds amounted to $345 million, while...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has upgraded its forecast for economic growth in Russia for the second time this year, and now expects GDP to gain as much as 3.8% in 2021, RT informed.
In its April report, the IMF raised its projections for Russia’s GDP by 0.8% compared to...
