A Russian taxi driver allegedly strangled his girlfriend to death before pushing her corpse around town in a wheelbarrow. 25-year-old Cabbie Filip Grigoryev, reportedly had an argument with his unnamed girlfriend before being caught on CCTV wheeling the barrow around roads. Filip who drove his girlfriend’s body around town for an hour eventually dumped his […]
A Russian military helicopter crash-landed on an airfield Tuesday in the far eastern region of Chukotka, killing four people, the military said. The crash involving a Mi-8 helicopter may have been caused by a technical malfunction, the Defence Ministry said. Three crew members and a technician on board died in the crash, according to the […]
Russia has suspended the use of Russian-made medical ventilators of a certain model manufactured after April 1, a state healthcare regulator said on Wednesday, following two hospital fires reported to involve two such machines. The Aventa-M medical ventilator was used at the Saint George’s Hospital in St Petersburg where five people died in a fire […]
A fire apparently started by an overloaded ventilator killed five novel coronavirus patients in an intensive care unit in a Russian hospital on Tuesday, news agencies reported. Russia’s emergency ministry confirmed the death of intensive care patients in a hospital in the city of St. Petersburg but did not say how many people had been […]
Russia’s nationwide tally of confirmed coronavirus cases surged past the 100,000 mark on Thursday after a record daily rise in new cases, days after President Vladimir Putin warned the peak of the outbreak was yet to come. Russia, the world’s largest country by territory, has been on lockdown since Putin announced the closure of most […]
Russia plans to launch a series of probes to the moon in the next few years to prepare for a manned mission, state media reported on Tuesday. The efforts, which include collaboration with the European Space Agency, are being conducted as the United States has expressed intentions to extract resources from the moon. A manned […]
Russia has registered a total of 18,328 cases of COVID-19 as of Monday, with the number of infected rising by a new daily record of 2,558, latest official data showed. The death toll is now 148, with 1,470 people having recovered so far, including 179 in the last 24 hours, Russia’s coronavirus response centre said […]
Russia’s Lower House of Parliament, on Wednesday, said it would approve legislation to impose prison terms for violating quarantine measures, the Legislature’s Speaker said. According to Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, there is a consensus among all political factions. Volodin said that violating quarantine measures could be tantamount to terrorism. The draft legislation seeks to impose prison […]
Moscow – Russian consumer rights watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, said on Friday Russia has started testing coronavirus vaccines and hopes to launch its mass production by the end of the year. “The research centre of Rospotrebnadzor started testing the vaccine against the novel coronavirus,’’ the watchdog said. It said the vaccine prototypes are based on six different […]
Russia announced plans to restrict access to people arriving from Iran on Friday, as it moves to ensure the population’s safety and thwart the spread of the new coronavirus infection. The Federal Security Service will be “temporarily halting passage through the Russian border of foreign citizens… arriving from Iran” to work study or travel in […]
Turkey wants Russia to agree to a new ceasefire for Syria’s Idlib region, near the Turkish border, as Europe braces for another wave of refugees from war-torn Syria. The most recent ceasefire, reached in January, collapsed as Syrian government forces, backed by Russian air power, advanced in recent weeks into the Idlib region, Syria’s last […]
Russia – Russia’s Defense Ministry on Friday said reports that hundreds of thousands of Syrians were fleeing Idlib in the direction of Turkey were false. The ministry, however, urged Ankara to allow Idlib residents to enter other parts of Syria. READ ALSO: Russia’s melting permafrost threatens to hasten global climate change It issued its comments […]
As vast expanses of Siberian permafrost have been melting amid an overall rise in annual temperatures, greenhouse gases are being released into the atmosphere, threatening to further expedite climate change on a global level. Read also: NIMN partners Export Promotion Council on capacity building Permafrost, or permanently frozen soil, spans northern Russia, containing deposits of […]
Serhii Yushkevych is the Charge d’Affaires of Ukraine to Nigeria. He spoke to Managing Editor, Bonaventure Melah and General Manager, Business Development, Abdulmumin S. Balogun on the safety of Nigerian students and others living in Ukraine, bilateral economic relations as well as Ukraine and Russia. Tell us about yourself-your family, growing up, career so far […]
Russian investigators said on Thursday they had opened two criminal cases into the management of a company involved in building the Vostochny Cosmodrome, a space centre in the country’s Far East. The announcement came less than two weeks after President Vladimir Putin complained to government officials about corruption at the facility and called for further […]
St Petersburg (Russia) – Belgium secured top spot in Euro 2020 qualifying Group I and stretched their perfect record to nine wins after a sparkling 4-1 win in Russia on Saturday. Two goals from Eden Hazard and one by his brother Thorgan inspired them to victory against home side Russia. With one round of games […]
Abuja – The Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), on Friday said that Nigeria and Russia would sign a Memorandum of Understanding on production of pre-paid meter to bridge the gap that currently exists in the sector. President of ACCI, Adetokunbo Kayode said that the agreement would be between Russian electrotechnical company, Energomera and NT […]
Abuja – The Federal Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Russian Ministry of Trade and Investment on scientific and technical cooperation in geosciences. Mr Ayodeji Adeyemi, Special Assistant to the Minister of Mines and Steel Development on Media, said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. Anambra Assembly passes N137.1bn […]
The Russian Government has agreed to support development of Nigeria’s rail infrastructure by constructing 1,400 kilometres track from Lagos to the South-South city of Calabar. According to Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, in a statement in Abuja, said this development was one of the agreements reached […]
The Presidency says about 250 Nigerian business interests will participate in the African Business Forum, which will bring together African and Russian business leaders in Sochi, Russia, between Oct. 23 and Oct. 25. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. READ […]