Thursday, May 2, 2024
Five deputy chief editors resigned from Vedomosti on Monday, after the newspaper’s parent company made Andrey Shmarov’s appointment as editor-in-chief permanent, Meduza reports. Dmitry Simakov, Boris Safronov, Filipp Strekin, Kirill Kharatyan, and Alexander Gubsky all stepped down in protest. Gubsky had worked at Vedomosti since it was founded in 1999....
The "Search for Lost and Found Animals" service on the official portal of the Moscow Mayor and Moscow Government (mos.ru) is the first city centralized service in Russia for finding lost animals. Those who have lost a pet can post an ad and inform about the missing animal via...
A Russian artist unveiled four giant paintings of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in central Istanbul on Saturday, saying he wanted to show the good ties between Ankara and Moscow despite differences over Syria and other issues, Reuters reported. However shortly after Alexander Donskoy unveiled his “Putin is Russia?” project in...
Sheremetyevo International Airport has summed up the results of production activities for August and eight months of 2021, the press service of the airport said. The number of passengers served since the beginning of the year amounted to 19 million 15 thousand people, which is 41.4% higher than the same...
U.S. warplanes intercepted four Russian reconnaissance aircraft near Alaska on Saturday, U.S. commanders said, as cited by The Moscow Times. The Russian Tu-142's came within 65 nautical miles south of Alaska's Aleutian island chain and "loitered" in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) for eight hours. But they stayed in...
According to a spokesman for the regional branch of the Russian Interior Ministry, a knife-wielding student assaulted a teacher at Lyceum Number One in the town of Berezniki, in Russia's Perm District, TASS reports. According to the spokesman, a pupil assaulted a teacher at Berezniki's Lyceum Number One, with an object...
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...
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...