RUSSIA

Over 100 Russian tourists fly back to their homeland

7:52 pm May 21, 2020

Thiruvananthapuram: At least 103 Russian tourists, who got stranded in the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, left for their country from here. The special plane of Royal Flight Airlines took off at 10.30 am IST to Moscow via Kolkata and Yekaterinburg. While at least 75 guests were staying in different destinations in Kerala like Varkala near the […]

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Moscow unveils Chinese-inspired coronavirus hospital

9:11 pm April 21, 2020

Moscow: An 800-bed hospital that was hastily built to treat coronavirus patients has opened outside Russia’s capital Moscow, city officials said on Tuesday. The clinic, 70 kilometres (40 miles) south of Moscow, was inspired by a coronavirus facility in the Chinese province of Wuhan, officials said, and was built in a month. “Unlike similar facilities […]

UN chief warns against criminal exploitation of COVID-19 recovery resources

Russia tries again to win UN approval for virus resolution

2:51 pm April 18, 2020

United Nation: Russia is trying again to win U.N. General Assembly approval for a resolution on the coronavirus pandemic, dropping a call to end unilateral sanctions without UN Security Council approval but still calling for an end to protectionist practices. The 193-member world body has until noon EDT on Wednesday to consider the revised Russian […]

Russians face trial for iron-bar attack on English fan

11:59 pm April 15, 2020

Marseille: Two Russians will face trial in France over a vicious assault that left an English fan partially paralysed during Euro 2016, a judicial source said on Wednesday. Mikhail Ivkine, 34, and Pavel Kosov, 33, risk up to 15 years behind bars if found guilty of the attack on Andrew Bache. The trial is expected […]

Russia ready to start testing coronavirus vaccines on humans in June

1:01 am April 8, 2020

Moscow : The head of a top Russian research centre told President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that his lab was ready to start human trials of experimental coronavirus vaccines in June. Rinat Maksyutov, head of the Vektor State Virology and Biotechnology Centre, said his facility proposed first-phase clinical trials of three vaccines from June 29, […]