Friday, April 19, 2024
Tehran called on Russia and China to resist a push by Washington to extend a U.N.-imposed arms embargo due to expire in October under Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with six powers, Reuters writes. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has been taking a harder line with the United Nations to extend...
The number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in Russia over the past 24 hours has increased by 22,851, bringing the total to 3,401,954, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told journalists on Sunday, TASS reported. For the first time since November 18 the number of new detected cases is below 23,000. According to...
Fast-growing Russian supermarket chain VkusVill plans to open a store in the Netherlands within weeks and later in France as it considers a future initial public offering (IPO) in New York, Reuters reported last week. The company’s founder Andrey Krivenko said that VkusVill, which on average opens two new stores in Russia...
Participants in OPEC+ have agreed to maintain the deal's terms while not boosting oil production. Following the discussions, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told Russia-24 TV that the already scheduled November increase in oil output of 400,000 barrels per day would continue the process of stabilizing the oil...
The FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warned officials to increase security and to do additional checks for possible Russian operatives appearing as political advisers working in U.S. politics for the upcoming November’s elections. According to The Associated Press, the report which was produced in February warned...
Russia recorded 21,798 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the highest daily number since the start of the pandemic, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Monday. The overall case tally has reached 1,796,132, TASS reported. The daily number of cases remained over 20,000 for the fourth day in a...
  The Russian Football Union's (RFU) Executive Committee has slammed the national team's performance in the 2020 UEFA Euro Cup this summer, calling it unsatisfactory, RFU President Alexander Dyukov stated on Thursday. "The team's effort has been disappointing," Dyukov told journalists after a meeting of the RFU Executive Committee earlier in...
According to Rosstat statistics, unemployment in Russia decreased to 4.4 percent in August, down from 4.5 percent in July, and reached its lowest level since August 2019, RIA reported. In June 2019, Russia's unemployment rate was 4.4 percent; however, in August of the same year, it decreased to a historic...
An international team of scientists has found that those with a special variant of the gene that regulates the functions of the immune system are twice as likely to get on mechanical ventilation when infected with COVID-19, Izvestia reported. The co-authors of the study from Russia clarified that such people...
The Russian Olympic Committee already has 62 medals in Tokyo, and some of the Olympians who have completed their performances returned to Russia with their heads held high. Among those who arrived at Moscow's Sheremetyevo were wrestlers Musa Yevloyev and Zaur Uguyev. The champions were greeted with their fans' gratitude,...