Europe Russia State-run TASS news agency will open the world’s first permanent news bureau on board the International Space Station (ISS); cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin will report on the orbital outpost’s daily routine and share first-hand experience
Europe Russia Moscow entered a tight lockdown last week after a dramatic increase of Covid-19 cases and related deaths that international opinion considers signs of a very poor handling of the problem and/or diffusion of inaccurate data
Europe Russia The first one hectare land plot under the “Far Eastern Hectare” program, recently extended to the Arctic Zone, has been assigned; families and entities can bid for plots of different sizes for free after submitting a project to be completed 3 years
Europe Russia The Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences have released the "Dictionary of the Russian language of the coronavirus era" with 3500 words that appeared or became relevant in 2020-2021
Europe Russia The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Russia was responsible for the "assassination" of former Russian security officer Aleksandr Litvinenko in London in 2006
Europe Russia Specialists of the Russian civil defense EMERCOM for the first time in Covid history practiced the evacuation of patients on artificial lung ventilation within the large-scale exercises held in the Arctic region in the first half of the month
Europe Russia The First Games of the Commonwealth of the Independent States ends today in Kazan; 2.000 athletes took part in the competition, of which about 1.500 (14-23 y.o.) were from 10 CIS countries
Europe Russia According to the largest Russian online book service LitRes, the novel "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov is the most popular book among the local social networks users
Europe Russia Wildfires in Siberia covered more than 13.4 million hectares, 78% of which are in Yakutia, a vast northwestern area where dozens of houses are damaged or evacuated. The smoke has reached the North Pole for the first time in recorded history
Europe Russia Although the country had been banned from the Tokyo 2020 Games by unanimous decision of the World Anti-Doping Agency, their athletes have been entered by and representing the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) for a country name and winning 70 medals
Europe Russia The art-residences, hosting artists as form the promotion and development of the Russian Arctic, to be opened in the Izhemskiy and Ust-Tsilemskiy districts of the Komi Republic
Europe Russia A meter-long mammoth tusk and about 4 thousand artefacts of the Paleolithic era were discovered at the “Afontova Gora-IV” early man site in Krasnoyarsk
Europe Russia Schools will start teaching financial literacy in primary and secondary classes from 2022