Thursday, May 2, 2024
The Northern Fleet ships completed anti-submarine warfare drills in the Barents Sea, the Fleet’s press office reported on Tuesday, TASS reported. The drills that lasted several days involved the missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov, the large anti-submarine warfare ship Severomorsk and small anti-subsurface ships from the water area protection brigade of...
Il-76 military aircrafts have delivered several armored vehicles to the Khmeimim base in Syria in order to assist the units of the Russian military police tasked with patrolling the Syrian-Turkish border, the Russian Defense Ministry informed, TASS reported. "In the near future, the military equipment will head to the northern...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed the head of the country’s tax office Mikhail Mishustin as Prime Minister to replace the outgoing Dmitry Medvedev late on Wednesday, state-run news agency TASS reported. It was the last major political move in a dramatic news day for Russia, after Putin announced a major...
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...
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...
For the first time since the Soviet era, there are no elite Russian basketball players in the NBA. There have been thirteen since the 1990’s, providing a constants presence in the elite basketball competition, yet, over the last few years, no Russian players have participated in the NBA Draft. The most...
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...
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...