Новости за 02.02.2021

The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) announced earlier in the day that the Latvian capital of Riga will be the sole host for all matches of the 2021 Ice Hockey World Championship

Russia and Egypt signed an intergovernmental agreement on the construction of the country's first nuclear power plant in Cairo in November 2015

Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted that the presence of foreign diplomats at the court hearing reviewing the Navalny case was not a common practice

Before being transported to a prison, he will be allowed a short meeting with family members or other people

In particular, the talks focused on the problem of protection of the freedom of speech that representatives of the Russian-language media face abroad

On January 18, the IIHF Council announced a decision to strip the Belarusian capital of Minsk of the right to host matches of the 2021 Ice Hockey World Championship and to relocate them to another venue

The video shows episodes of aggression against law enforcement officers in Russia along with footages showing police brutality in Austria, the Netherlands, Poland, the US, Finland, France and the Czech Republic

Latvia reported its first COVID-19 case on March 2, 2020

He stressed that teachers were faced with far stronger competition, because "sources of information are many"

On December 1, 2020, the RDIF, the Gamaleya Center (Sputnik V developer), AstraZeneca and Russia’s R-Pharm company signed an agreement on developing and launching a program of clinical trials for the combination between the shots

TASS reports that Navalny was trying to smile as the judge read out the verdict, while his wife Yulia who was also in the courtroom burst into tears

The ambassador also said that at a session of the bilateral intergovernmental commission on December 17, the sides discussed possible supplies of Russian coronavirus vaccines to Ethiopia

If the time for Navalny’s return was chosen deliberately, "there can only be pity" for the opposition figure, the politician believes

The number of coronavirus-associated deaths amounts to 91,472, with 517 fatalities registered in the past 72 hours

Putin stressed that the government is constantly focusing on benefits for air travel for residents of the Far East

Earlier, the Lancet medical journal published the results of Phase Three clinical trials of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus according to which the preparation is one of the safest and the most effective ones worldwide

Earlier this month, the Athletes Commission of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) proposed using "Katyusha," Russia’s most popular song in World War II, instead of the national anthem at the Olympic Games

According to the Russian president, quite often media platforms begin to inconspicuously foist whatever they please on their clients

Putin stressed that however far modern technologies might go, they would never be able to replace person-to-person contact. Putin described the pupil-teacher contact as joint creative endeavor

The European Court of Human Rights found no offence in his actions, the blogger stressed

Alexander Gintsburg, head of the center, noted that the adenovirus platform, the Sputnik V vaccine is based on, has once again showed its future outlook, reliability and safety

The Lancet, one of the world's oldest and most respected medical journals, earlier published interim results of a phase 3 trial of Sputnik V

A TASS correspondent reported earlier that about 20 foreign diplomats, including from the United States, Bulgaria, Poland, Latvia, Austria, and Switzerland, had been seen at the Moscow City Court hearing on possible replacement of Navalny’s suspended sentence under the Yves Rocher case with an actual prison term