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Moscow:  Russia confirmed 14,057 new Covid-19 cases over the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 5,264,047, the official monitoring and response center said on Thursday. Meanwhile, the national Covid-19 death toll rose by 416…

Moscow: Just days ahead of the much-awaited summit with his American counterpart Joe Biden, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia-US relations were at their lowest point in years. "We have a bilateral relationship that has…

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law withdrawing Moscow from the Open Skies treaty, an arms control pact with the US that permitted unarmed surveillance flights over military facilities in both countries. The law…

Brussels: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Sunday warned Russia and Belarus against threatening the alliance's allies, following the forced landing of a passenger plane within the European Union (EU) by Belarusian authorities.…

Hyderabad: GMR Hyderabad Air Cargo (GHAC) on Tuesday handled largest shipment of Russian made Sputnik V vaccines. The vaccine consignment arrived from Russia on a specially chartered freighter RU-9450 which touched down Hyderabad Airport…

London: Russia has started vaccinating animals against Covid-19, the media reported on Thursday. Several regions in the country have now started the Carnivak-Cov vaccines at veterinary clinics, the BBC quoted Russia's veterinary watchdog…

Tokyo: Three crew members from a Japanese fishing vessel died after the boat collided with a Russian ship off the northern island of Hokkaido on Wednesday. There were five crew members on board the 9.7-ton crab-fishing boat when it…

Castellon: In her first match in a year, six-time world champion MC Mary Kom beat GiordanaSorrentino of Italy to reach the women's 51kg semi-finals and ensure a medal at the Boxam Elite International tournament here. Mary Kom has already…

Moscow:satellite A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the "Arktika-M" satellite on board blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9.55 a.m. on Sunday, Roscosmos said. The Arktika-M spacecraft was delivered to the orbit at…

Moscow: Russia has confirmed the first case of human infection with the avian influenza A(H5N8) virus in the world, a Russian sanitary official announced on Saturday. Scientists have isolated the genetic material of this bird flu virus in…