Russia

25 Nov 2020; MEMO: Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, and his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, yesterday said their countries were committed "to ensuring the prompt return of all participants to fully observing obligations laid out in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal."

In a phone conversation, the officials also discussed trade and political relations, as well as Syria and Nagorno-Karabakh, according to Reuters.

25 Nov 2020, PTI: RDIF continues expanding existing agreements with international manufacturing partners to produce the vaccine for more than 500 million people in 2021 MOSCOW, Nov. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The cost of one dose of the Sputnik V vaccine for international markets will be less than 10. Sputnik V is a two dose vaccine.

Therefore, Sputnik V will be two or more times cheaper than mRNA vaccines with similar efficacy levels.[1] Vaccination with Sputnik V will be free of charge for Russian citizens.

MOSCOW, November 24. /TASS/: The Korean Peninsula’s nuclear problem must be resolved exclusively by diplomatic means through talks, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday as he received credentials from newly-appointed foreign ambassadors, including the new ambassador of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Sin Hong Chol.

"As far as the nuclear problem of the Korean Peninsula is concerned, it must be resolved exclusively by diplomatic means, through talks," Putin said.

MOSCOW, November 24. /TASS/: People with immunity to COVID-19 can still carry the coronavirus, Head of Russia’s Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing Anna Popova told reporters on Tuesday.

"Immunity is not sterile, which means that the virus can exist in a person who is not ill and has no symptoms. The virus exists on mucous membranes and in other cells of the body," she explained.

MOSCOW, November 24. /TASS/: The European Union should abandon its hypocritical policy towards Ukraine and human rights, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zaskharova said, commenting on the European External Action Service’s statement that Moscow’s decision to recognize "documents and vehicle registrations issued to citizens and permanent residents of Ukraine's Donetsk and Lugansk regions… constitutes yet another attempt by Russia to undermine Ukraine's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity."

MOSCOW, November 24. /TASS/: Russian healthcare is highly overloaded amid the coronavirus pandemic, but the infection spread in general remains under control, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists Tuesday.

"The epidemiologic situation becomes more complicated," he noted. "The healthcare system operates, undoubtedly, in a high overload mode, but still, aside from several troubled regions, which [Deputy Prime Minister] Tatiana Golikova spoke about, the situation in general remains under control."

MOSCOW, November 23. /TASS/: Moscow will send congratulations to the winner of the US presidential election when its official results are summed up and all legal issues are sorted out, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday.

"The president-elect must be announced, the incumbent president himself must recognize the outcome of the election, and all lawsuits must be completed. Only after that the results will be officially summed up," he said. In his view, "it is obvious that this has not happened yet."

MOSCOW, November 23. /TASS/: The launch of three Gonets-M communications satellites from the Plesetsk spaceport delayed over technical faults with the carrier rocket has been tentatively scheduled for December 3, a source in the domestic space industry told TASS on Monday.

"The launch of Gonets satellites has been tentatively rescheduled for December 3," the source said.

MOSCOW, November 23. /TASS/: Coronavirus cases in St. Petersburg grew by an all-time high of 2,926 in the past twenty-four hours to 100,864, according to the data released by the federal anti-coronavirus crisis center on Monday.

On November 22, St. Petersburg registered a record high of 2,668 new COVID-19 cases.

Moscow identified 6,866 new coronavirus cases in the past twenty-four hours, bringing the total coronavirus case tally in the Russian capital to 560,579.

MOSCOW, November 23. /TASS/: The number of confirmed COVID-19 infections in Russia over the past 24 hours has increased by 25,173, bringing the total to 2,114,502, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Monday.

This is the new record high number of infections in the country. The previous record high of 24,822 detected daily cases was documented on Saturday, November 21.

The lowest daily growth rates were registered in the Republic of Dagestan (0.5%), Kalmykia, the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region (0.6% each), the Republic of Mari El (0.7%).