Friday, March 29, 2024
Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said Wednesday that the country has allocated almost $18 billion to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, TASS reports. The finance ministry “has reserved 1.4 trillion rubles ($17.8 billion) in all for fighting the spread of the coronavirus and carrying out anti-crisis measures," Mishustin told President Vladimir...
The Russian government has asked the Finance Ministry to allocate funds to support Russian citizens having no opportunity to return from overseas, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. "The Russian Finance Ministry is going to support the allocation of budget assignments of the federal budget for 2020 to the Russian Ministry of Foreign...
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has instructed Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin to use the city’s mobile networks to monitor lockdown compliance, RBC reported. A relevant order was published on the government’s website following a meeting of the Coordination Council on Coronavirus Response. "Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has to ensure the monitoring...
A 20% increase in revenue in February 2020 year-on-year was recorded by Russian pharmacies, even before the coronavirus pandemic reached its current proportions, Izvestia reported on Monday, citing data provided in a monthly report from DSM Group agency. The volume of the commercial drug market amounted to 100.9 billion rubles ($1.26 billion)...
All Moscow residents will be required to stay in home self-isolation from Monday, Moscow’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Sunday, according to Life.ru. "Today, I signed a decree on extra measures to prevent a rapid spread of COVID-2019," he wrote on his blog. "Starting from tomorrow, the home self-isolation regime...
The number of the coronavirus cases in Russia has risen by 270 over the past day to 1,534, with 65 regions affected by the disease, the anti-coronavirus crisis center reported on Sunday, TASS reported. "Today 1,534 cases have been registered in Russia. Over the past day, 15 people have...
A "non-working week" began in Russia on Saturday in a move aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus, Interfax reported. All restaurants, bars, motels, children's camps and ski resorts will be closed as early as March 28, and regional authorities have been advised to ban all public events and...
An automatic system capable of conducting over 5,000 COVID-19 tests daily will be presented by the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) in one month, the sovereign wealth fund’s CEO Kirill Dmitriev said on Friday, according to RNS.  RDIF and Japan's Mirai Genomics have developed a new diagnostic system for detecting...
South Korean pharmaceutical company Thelma Therapeutics said Friday it has finalized a deal to buy 27 percent stake in Russian medical equipment supplier Bebig for $20 million, in a bid to tap the overseas healthcare market, the Korea Herald reported. The stake was of NBT, a parent company that wholly...
From this Saturday (March 28) to April 5, all shops in Moscow except grocery stores and pharmacies will be closed, a decree published on Thursday by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, according to BFM.ru. "From March 28 to April 5, 2020, all retail trade facilities will be temporarily closed, except...