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Russia reported 4,676 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, pushing its confirmed national tally up to 970,865, Reuters reported. Authorities said 115 people had died of COVID-19 over the last 24 hours, raising the official death toll to 16,683.
Russian authorities will provide support measures for domestic companies in case the European Union introduces a carbon tax and will hold international negotiations on this matter, Deputy Head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday, TASS reported. "This will have fairly serious consequences" for the Russian economy, Medvedev...
The novel coronavirus infection will most likely have three waves and it would be possible to return to the accustomed way of living only by the summer of 2021, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Center for Immunology and Molecular Biomedicine of the Moscow State...
Belarus’ participation in the Russian anti-coronavirus vaccine trials was among the topics discussed by Russian and Belarusian Presidents, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, during their Monday’s telephone conversation, Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov confirmed to TASS. "During their telephone conversation, Putin and Lukashenko did discuss Belarus' participation in trials of...
Doctors in Siberia who treated Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny for a suspected poisoning before he was airlifted to a hospital in Germany said Monday that their efforts had saved his life, The Moscow Times reported. The 44-year-old opposition politician went into a coma after falling suddenly ill Thursday on a flight to Moscow,...
The number of coronavirus cases in Russia rose by 4,744 to 961,493 in the past 24 hours, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said in a statement on Monday, TASS reported. According to the crisis center, the daily coronavirus growth rate has been at or below 0.5% and the daily number of...
Russia expects to produce between 1.5 million and 2 million doses per month of its potential COVID-19 vaccine by the year end, gradually ramping up production to 6 million doses a month, the RIA news agency cited industry minister Denis Manturov as saying on Sunday. Large-scale testing of the vaccine,...
Coronavirus cases in Russia grew by 4,852 in the past twenty-four hours to 956,749, the anti-coronavirus crisis center reported on Sunday, TASS reported. The daily growth in COVID-19 cases has been within 0.5% in the past eight days, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said. Moscow registered 611 new coronavirus cases in the...
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s condition is very worrying after his evacuation to Germany for medical treatment on Saturday, said Jaka Bizilj, founder of the Cinema for Peace Foundation, Reuters reported. “His health condition is very worrying,” Bizilj, whose foundation sent the air ambulance that collected Navalny in Russia’s far east,...
Gravely ill Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was evacuated to Germany for medical treatment on Saturday, flown out of the Siberian city of Omsk in an ambulance aircraft and taken to a hospital in Berlin, Reuters reported. There was no word yet from the Charite hospital on his condition but the...