Новости за 16.03.2021

Over the past 20 years, Russians' spending fell most significantly in 2015 - then, taking into account peak inflation, consumer spending fell by 10.2%

Earlier, the Polish Office for Foreigners, under the request of the Military Counterintelligence Service, included Russian journalist, VGTRK special reporter Yevgeny Reshetnev to the list of undesired people

He recalled that seven years ago Crimea’s residents had voted for joining Russia "in full compliance with international law"

The Chumakov Center’s inactivated whole-virion Covivac vaccine was registered with the Russian health ministry on February 19

He said that Russia will continue to encourage such exchanges and contacts

This is how Ukrainian extremists marked the anniversary of the referendum to reunify Crimea with Russia, held on the peninsula on March 16, 2014

Earlier on Tuesday, Russia’s media watchdog (Roskomnadzor) warned that it may block Twitter service in Russia if the company does not respond to the requirements of the department

The Russian Finance Ministry stressed it is working with Russian companies that have come under US sanctions to minimize the consequences of the restrictions imposed on them

Brazil’s health ministry said on March 12 it has signed a contract for the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, which is expected to reach that country in April, May, and June

Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, said the logic of armed confrontation in Yemen gains the upper hand

The prime minister noted that the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is possible only within the framework of cooperation of the OSCE Minsk group co-chairs

The Rostov Region is ranked sixth as to the number of coronavirus infections in Russia

He stressed that such a measure would allow Russia to avoid allegations that it is interested in completely blocking the social network

In particular, Roscosmos published photo and video materials, and also letters, decisions by the state commission, minutes of the state commission’s sessions, a flight assignment from the Cytology Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, a program of biomedical research and other materials

Roscosmos has numerously offered equitable terms of cooperation for US colleagues under the Gateway lunar station program but has not received any answer, Head of Russia’s State Space Corporation Dmitry Rogozin stressed

Earlier, FSB press service disclosed that the man was gathering information for Ukrainian intelligence agencies. An explosive device was discovered in his car.

The agreement was signed in the videoconference mode in presence of chief executive officers of Gazprom and Shell

Orlen refineries are currently supplied with oil on the basis of long-term contracts with suppliers from Saudi Arabia and Russia and on the spot basis from the Northern Sea region

Sambo wrestling originated in Russia in the 1920s, when soldiers of the then-Soviet Army developed their own hand-to-hand combat technique

Meanwhile, renewable energy generation commissioned in 2020 reached a record of around 1 GW

Empowering Green Hydrogen Development in China

The paratroopers’ drills that will run until March 19 involve over 2,000 personnel and 500 items of combat and special hardware, aircraft and helicopters of military transport, assault and army aviation

He also again emphasized that Azerbaijan is still "withholding Armenian prisoners of war"