Thursday, March 28, 2024
More than 1 billion doses of various novel coronavirus vaccines have already been administered worldwide, AFP reported on Saturday citing own calculations based on official data submitted by national authorities, TASS writes. According to the agency, as of 20:45 Moscow time on Saturday, a total of 1,002,938,540 doses of anti-coronavirus...
Vladimir Putin's address is a firm response to the undue pressure imposed by the US and Europe on Russia, say international observers, suggesting that the need to solve global issues offers hope for a constructive dialogue between the world's major players, Sputnik reports. Moscow will find "asymmetrical" ways to defend...
President Vladimir Putin will deliver his annual address to Russia’s bicameral parliament, the Federal Assembly on Wednesday, TASS reports. It will be the 27th state of the nation address in the history of modern Russia. The Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation is president’s annual public...
Russian President Vladimir Putin, when appointing Alexei Russkikh interim governor of the Ulyanovsk Region, was taking into account his experience and qualifications, not his party affiliation, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Friday, Tass informed. "As a head of state, he takes into account efficiency of an official as the main...
Ukraine’s potential accession to NATO would lead to a large-scale rise in tensions in the country’s southeast and irreversible consequences for Ukraine’s statehood, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Friday, TASS reports. "We have taken note of a statement by Ukrainian President Zelensky, who visited...
The U.S. administration has completed an intelligence review of Russia’s alleged election interference and the SolarWinds hack and may soon announce retaliatory actions, Bloomberg reported, citing "three people familiar with the matter." "Possible moves could involve sanctions and the expulsion of Russian intelligence officers in the U.S. under diplomatic cover,...
Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos said on Sunday it continues to work in a routine mode and reports about its CEO Dmitry Rogozin’s resignation are mere rumors and idle speculations. "We are working routinely. The next launch is scheduled for April 9. No time for idle speculations and rumors," a...
Russia should toughen the punishment for those who insult the country’s president, the chairman of the State Duma’s international affairs committee, Leonid Slutsky, has said, TASS reported. "We should toughen the punishment for those who insult the president," he said in an interview on the Solovyev Live YouTube channel on...
The 2014 referendum on the status of Crimea was legitimate from the standpoint of international law and Ukrainian legislation, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the media on Tuesday, TASS reports. "That referendum was legitimate essentially, from the standpoint of international law and from the standpoint of Ukraine’s own laws,"...
Dozens of countries took Russia to task at the UN on Friday over its imprisonment of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, and slammed numerous "arbitrary arrests" of his supporters, The Moscow Times reported. In a historic joint statement delivered to the United Nations Human Rights Council, 45 countries voiced alarm at...