Tag: Russia

• Wednesday, April 7th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Bolsonaro and Putin discuss Sputnik-V vaccine purchase in telephone conversation

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro spoke Tuesday on the telephone with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, about the possible purchase of Sputnik V, the anti-Covid-19 vaccine developed by the Gamaleya Institute for Research in Epidemiology and Microbiology.

• Tuesday, April 6th 2021 - 08:48 UTC

  Russia's Putin invites Argentine President over to discuss bilateral cooperation

  

  Russia's President Vladimir Putin Monday held a phone conversation with his Argentine colleague Alberto Fernández, whom he invited over to Moscow for talks to advance cooperation issues.

• Tuesday, March 9th 2021 - 09:51 UTC

  Oil heading for US$ 70 a barrel on OPEC+ latest decision to retain output cuts

  

  Oil is heading toward US$ 70 a barrel after OPEC+ chose not to relax supply curbs even as the global economy pulls out of its pandemic-driven slump, confounding widespread expectations the group would loosen the taps.

• Monday, March 8th 2021 - 08:35 UTC

  Maduro and wife Cilia Flores receive first doses of Sputnik vaccine, as shown by state television

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores have received their first doses of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, Venezuelan state television reported, while the country received a second shipment of the vaccine.

• Monday, March 8th 2021 - 08:25 UTC

  EU medicines' regulator calls for refrain in approving Russia's Sputnik V vaccine

  

  A senior European Medicines Agency (EMA) official urged European Union members on Sunday to refrain from granting national approvals for Russian Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V while the agency reviews its safety and effectiveness.

• Wednesday, March 3rd 2021 - 08:26 UTC

  World leaders congratulate Gorbachev on his 90th birthday; most Russians not convinced with his reforms

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev turned 90 on Tuesday, with several world leaders sending well-wishes to the former leader of the Soviet Union. The ex-leader of the Soviet Union and secretary-general of the Communist Party is considered by some as one of the greatest reformers of the 20th century — but remains a controversial figure at home.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:21 UTC

  Russia announces approval of CoviVac, a third vaccine for domestic use

  

  Russia approved a third coronavirus vaccine for domestic use, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on state TV, though large-scale clinical trials of the shot, labeled CoviVac and produced by the Chumakov Centre, have yet to begin.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:15 UTC

  UK back at Human Rights Council with a long list of targets, China, Russia, Belarus and Myanmar

  

  Britain this Monday will call for the United Nations to be given “urgent and unfettered” access to Xinjiang to investigate reports of abuses in the Chinese region.

• Sunday, February 21st 2021 - 17:14 UTC

  Russia reported to WHO first case of avian flu H5N8 transmitted from birds to humans

  

  Russia announced on Saturday that its scientists had detected the world's first case of transmission of the H5N8 strain of avian flu from birds to humans and had alerted the World Health Organization.

• Thursday, February 4th 2021 - 09:46 UTC

  Argentine president asks Putin to guarantee supply of the Sputnik V vaccine

  

  Supply of the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine and the possible elaboration of the shots in Argentina were among the issues addressed by Argentine president Alberto Fernandez and Russia's Vladimir Putin during a Tuesday phone conference.