Europe Russia Christmas is celebrated today in the country, a different date than 25 December because the Orthodox Church, representing around 260 million Christians, still uses the ancient "Julian" calendar to mark religious festivities
Europe Russia President Putin has submitted to the State Duma a bill to simplify the process of acquiring Russian citizenship for individuals falling into more than 20 categories, including those who lived within the borders of the Soviet Union and their children
Europe Russia The country is studying foreign countries’ practices of fines for the refusal from vaccination against the coronavirus infection, specially their effectiveness and local applicability
Europe Russia The Russian tennis federation team has won the Davis Cup title for the first time since 2006 after beating Croatia in yesterday's final in Madrid
Europe Russia Rescuers have found a survivor in a Siberian coal mine where dozens of miners are presumed dead after a devastating methane explosion, a top local official announced
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