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...
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Thursday the detention of a Russian citizen in the city of Sevastopol on suspicion of leaking information about the activities of the Black Sea Fleet to Ukraine, Sputnik News reports.
"We have detained a Russian citizen in Sevastopol who purposefully collected and...
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 marked the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic space flight on Monday with a pledge that Moscow would remain a key space and nuclear power, Reuters reported.
Gagarin became the first human in outer space on April 12, 1961, in one of the Soviet Union’s most...
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday declined to comment on The New York Times’ recent piece about Russia's allegedly concealed COVID-19 death toll, saying he was not aware of the criteria based on which the newspaper made such assumptions, Sputnik News reported.
The prominent U.S. daily on Saturday published a...
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...
Russian and Turkish servicemen carried out a joint patrolling mission near the city of Qamishli in northeastern Syria’s Al Hasakah governorate, the head of the Russian convoy, Col. Andrei Titov, told reporters, Tass informed.
"On April 8, another Russian-Turkish patrolling mission along a previously agreed route has been completed. It...
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,...
