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Former IAAF head Lamine Diack sentenced to 2 years in prison

8:13 pm September 16, 2020

Paris: Former track federation president Lamine Diack was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for his role in a scheme that allowed Russian athletes who paid hush money to keep competing when they should have been suspended for doping. The guilty verdict in a Paris court represented a spectacular fall from grace for the 87-year-old Diack, who was the powerful […]

Perfectly preserved Ice Age cave bear found in Arctic Russia

11:42 pm September 14, 2020

Madisonville: Reindeer herders in a Russian Arctic archipelago have found an immaculately preserved carcass of an Ice Age cave bear, researchers said Monday. The find, revealed by the melting permafrost, was discovered on the Lyakhovsky Islands with its teeth and even its nose intact. Previously scientists only had been able to discover the bones of cave bears that became extinct […]

Space suits for Gaganyaan astronauts under production in Russia

11:07 pm September 7, 2020

Bengaluru: Russian research and development enterprise ‘Zvezda’ has started manufacturing of space suits for the Indian astronauts, who are likely to be part of India’s first manned space mission ‘Gaganyaa’, a Russian organisation said on Monday. Research, Development and Production Enterprise Zvezda, a subsidiary of Russian space organisation Roscosmos, has started manufacturing personal flight equipment for the Indian cosmonauts undergoing training in Russia, Glavkosmos said on Monday. Glavkosmos […]

Navalny daughter accepts human rights award on his behalf

Hospital: Russia’s Alexei Navalny out of coma, is responsive

9:59 pm September 7, 2020

Berlin: The German hospital treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he has been taken out of an induced coma and is responsive. German experts say Navalny, who fell ill Aug. 20 on a domestic flight in Russia, was poisoned with a substance belonging to the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. Berlin’s Charite hospital said Monday […]

Russian interference could theoretically cost Democrats presidential elections: Kamala Harris

11:32 pm September 6, 2020

Washington: Russian interference could theoretically cost Democrats the presidential elections, party’s vice-presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris said on Sunday. “I am clear that Russia interfered in the election of president of the United States in 2016,” Harris told CNN in an interview. “I serve on the Senate Intelligence Committee. We have published detailed reports about exactly what we believe happened. And I do […]