Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday that Azeri forces downed a Russian helicopter near its border with Armenia by accident, expressing apologies to Moscow and readiness to pay compensation, Reuters reported.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said earlier on Monday that one of its Mi-24 helicopters had been shot...
Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 is more than 90% effective, a representative of the health ministry said on Monday, citing data collated from vaccinations of the public rather than from an ongoing trial, Reuters reported.
The comments followed a statement earlier on Monday by vaccine developers Pfizer Inc and...
About 260,000 hospital beds for coronavirus patients have been deployed across Russia, with 82% of them already occupied, Russian Minister of Healthcare Mikhail Murashko said on Monday, TASS reports.
"In order to organize medical assistance to the fullest, 260,000 beds have been deployed as of now across the country, and...
Over 50 mln people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 worldwide since the start of the pandemic, the U.S.-based Johns Hopkins University informed on Sunday, TASS reported.
According to the university, 50,052,204 people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 worldwide, 1,252,471 have died, and 32,868,236 have recovered. The highest case count has...
The Presidents of Russia and Argentina, Vladimir Putin and Alberto Fernandez, focused in a phone call on prospects for the Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V in Argentina, the Kremlin said on Friday, TASS informed.
"President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and President of the Argentine Republic Alberto Fernandez held...
Russia has supplied coronavirus tests to all CIS countries and will address the issue of delivering anti-coronavirus vaccines to other countries, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said at a meeting of the Council of heads of CIS governments held as a videoconference on Friday, TASS reported.
"I would like to reaffirm...
Hungary announced it will purchase Russia’s Sputnik-V coronavirus vaccine for research and licensing purposes, in a move that risks creating tensions with EU authorities who insist only formulas made in the bloc should be used, RT reports.
Foreign Minister Peter Sijarto said on Thursday that Budapest will place an order...
Russian officials said Friday that metabolic problems and pancreatitis caused Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to fall ill in August, ruling out findings by European labs that he was poisoned, The Moscow Times reported.
The 44-year-old anti-graft campaigner collapsed on a flight from Siberia to Moscow and was transferred for treatment...
The number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus worldwide increased by more than 529,000 in the past 24 hours, exceeding 47.93 million, the World Health Organization (WHO) said, TASS reported.
As of 18.19 Moscow time on November 5, as many as 47,930,397 coronavirus cases and 1,221,781 coronavirus-related deaths were...
Russia’s coronavirus tests give false negative results up to 40% of the time, a health official said on Thursday as new infections rose and Moscow’s mayor warned of a worsening situation, Reuters reported.
The Kremlin, which has said there are no plans for a lockdown despite the surge in COVID-19...
