Russia

New Delhi: The India-China rivalry has now pushed into the Russian Far East, where Modi administration is planning significant investments in the energy and other sectors. China is a top investor in the region, but the Russians wary of…

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…

Sydney:  Top ranked tennis players Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal will lead the field for the upcoming 2021 ATP Cup scheduled to be played at the Melbourne Park from February 1 to 5. Djokovic's Serbia and Nadal's Spain will compete…

Moscow: A total of 1,424 Covid-19 mutations have been detected in Russia, but none of them are linked to the highly infectious new strain recently reported in Britain, said Anna Popova, head of the country's consumer rights and human…

Moscow: Russia registered 28,782 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the highest number of daily infections to date, the country's COVID-19 response center said. The country has registered 2,431,731 coronavirus infections over…

Moscow:  At least 28,782 additional people in Russia have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, which marked the highest single-day spike in the number of confirmed cases since the onset of the pandemic earlier this year, health…

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday instructed the government to begin large-scale vaccinations against the coronavirus next week. Medical workers and teachers, who are two high-risk groups, will be among the first to…

Moscow: Russia's Sputnik V vaccine has been found to be more than 95 per cent effective against Covid-19 in the second interim analysis of Phase 3 clinical trial data, its developers said on Tuesday. The analysis was based on data from…

Moscow:  Russia has reported 24,581 more Covid-19 infections, slightly down from the all-time high of 24,822 a day earlier, the country's Covid-19 response centre said on Sunday. The daily increase has been above 24,000 for three…

Chennai:  Russia's integrated nuclear power player Rosatom on Tuesday said that ship MV Janis has set sail with equipment for two 1,000 MW atomic power plants coming up at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli district. This is the 20th…