The World Health Organization (WHO) has resumed the approval process for Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, as reported by the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF). BREAKING: @WHO confirmed Sputnik V pre-qualification process is on track and entering its final stage. A group of WHO inspectors is due to visit Russia shortly to round up all
The winner of the Ukrainian ‘Miss Ukraine Universe 2021’ contest, Anna Neplyah, reacted to criticism after lots of people started to blame her for presenting Ukraine but speaking in her personal blog in Russian. A young woman from the Ukrainian city of Dnepr (former Dnepropetrovsk) won the title of ‘Miss Ukraine Universe 2021’ on October
The first-ever professional film crew to shoot footage for a film in space returned from their 12-day trip to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday, October 17. The Soyuz MS-18 craft, piloted by the Russian cosmonaut, Oleg Novitsky, and carrying actress, Yulia Peresild, and film director, Klim Shipenko, landed safely in Kazakhstan. The
The players of the Russian e-sports organization ‘Team Spirit’ won the Dota 2 – The International World Championship that was held at the National Stadium in Bucharest and got the prize fund of a record $40 million. In the grand final, the ‘Team Spirit’ group consisting of Russians Yaroslav Naidenov (Miposhka), Magomed Khalilov (Collapse), Alexander
The British Royal Court responded to a letter from schoolchildren of the “Small Academy of Sciences” in Sevastopol, Crimea. In the “address” section, there is stated “Sevastopol, Russia”. Thus, the country’s government indirectly recognised that the peninsula belongs to Russia. As noted, this summer, the students of the creative association “Entertaining English” wrote a letter
A meeting of the State Commission took place at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur region. The commission reviewed the readiness of the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the Fregat upper stage and 36 OneWeb satellites under Mission 49 and approved its launch at 9.40 am Moscow time today, on October 14, 2021, the press service of
On October 4, on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line of the Moscow metro, three young men from Dagestan attacked one and ran out of the carriage while the ambulance was called to the beaten passenger. Law enforcement officers managed to identify the attackers by cameras. All three were promptly detained after one of them resisted and tried
The uniqueness of the Russian new medicine created to combat the cytokine storm caused by COVID-19 lies in its absolute safety for people of different age groups, as stated in an interview with RT by the Director of the Scientific Centre for Biomedical Technologies of the FMBA of Russia Vladislav Karkishchenko. In May 2021, the
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva won the Finlandia Trophy international tournament held in Espoo from October 7 to 10. Kamila has broken Alena Kostornaya’s world record for the sum of the short and free programmes. Kamila Valieva is 15 and the girl is already a world champion among juniors (the current season is her
The “Marker” robotic platform developed by the Russian company “ANDROID Technology” and the Foundation for Advanced Research, has been put to the protection of the Vostochny cosmodrome. This was announced on October 7 by the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, in his Telegram channel. The head clarified that technologies such as autonomous patrolling of
Today, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, turned 69 years old. As his press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, noted, despite his birthday, Putin has a lot of work for today and only in the evening he can celebrate the special day with his family and friends. As noted, this is not the first birthday
The Soyuz MS-19 manned spacecraft, carrying cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, actress Yulia Peresild and film director Klim Shipenko, has made an autonomous flight to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It is specified that the Soyuz-2.1a rocket was launched today, on October 5, from the 31st site of Baikonur at 11.55 am Moscow
The first line of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline has begun to be filled with gas, according to the operator of the project. The company said that commissioning works were previously carried out to control the integrity of the pipeline, including an in-line inspection using special diagnostic devices. “On October 4, the procedure for filling
