Russia

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is 92% effective at protecting people from COVID-19 according to interim trial results, the country’s sovereign wealth fund said on Wednesday, as Moscow rushes to keep pace with Western drugmakers in the race for a shot.

The initial results are only the second to be published from a late-stage human trial in the global effort to produce vaccines that could halt a pandemic that has killed more than 1.2 million people and ravaged the world economy.

NOVO-OGARYOVO, November 10. /TASS/: The Armed Forces of Armenia and Azerbaijan will remain on the positions they currently hold, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

"The Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Armenia will stay on the positions they hold, along the contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh and along the corridor linking Nagorno-Karabakh with the Republic of Armenia, a peacekeeping contingent of the Russian Federation is being deployed," Putin stressed, speaking about a joint statement signed with the Azerbaijani president and the Armenian prime minister.

MOSCOW, November 10. /TASS/: Russia’s coronavirus cases rose by 20,977 to 1,817,109 in the past 24 hours, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Tuesday.

The daily number of cases remained over 20,000 for the fifth day in a row. 

On Monday, Russia recorded 21,798 cases, the highest daily number since the start of the pandemic.

As many as 5,902 coronavirus patients were identified in Moscow in the past day, 1,485 in St. Petersburg, 685 in the Moscow region, 402 in the Nizhny Novgorod region, and 341 in the Arkhangelsk region.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Tuesday said there was no agreement about the deployment of Turkish peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh, after a ceasefire deal was signed in an effort to halt more than a month of bloodshed in the region.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that a centre to monitor the ceasefire, located outside Nagorno-Karabakh, was subject to a separate agreement.

The presidents of Azerbaijan and Turkey earlier on Tuesday discussed creating a joint Russian-Turkish peacekeeping centre, Sputnik Azerbaijan reported.

MOSCOW, December 9. /TASS/: The fifth joint Russian-Pakistani exercise ‘Friendship-2020’ kicked off at the Tarbela special operations training ground in Pakistan, Russia’s Defense Ministry announced on Monday.

MOSCOW, November 9. /TASS/: Russia recorded 21,798 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the highest daily number since the start of the pandemic, the anti-coronavirus crisis centre said on Monday. The overall case tally has reached 1,796,132.

The daily number of cases remained over 20,000 for the fourth day in a row. The coronavirus growth rate is about 1.2%.

The rate is the lowest in Dagestan (0.5%), the Moscow, Mari El, Khanty-Mansiysk, Chuvash and Tatarstan regions (0.7%).

MOSCOW, November 9. /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin has conducted a major government reshuffle since its present line-up was appointed in January. Five ministers are leaving their posts at once, while the State Duma, lower house of parliament, is yet to approve the nominees, who will replace them under the new law.

MOSCOW, November 8. /TASS/: The Democratic nominee Joe Biden who has won the US presidential election as the American media outlets claim, will hardly make positive contributions to Washington’s policy regarding Russia, Chairman of the Russian State Duma (lower house) Foreign Affairs Committee Leonid Slutsky told reporters on Sunday, adding though that Moscow is ready to cooperate with any head of the US administration.

MOSCOW, November 8. /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin informed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call about phone talks with the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia aimed at looking for a solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Kremlin said on Saturday.

According to the Kremlin press office, both presidents confirmed readiness to seek peace for Nagorno-Karabakh.

MOSCOW, November 8. /TASS/: The Democratic nominee Joe Biden who won the US presidential election according to projections of the country’s leading media outlets, addressed viewers and supporters in Wilmington, Delaware, late on Saturday. The politician who is already referred to as president-elect by US media, urged Americans to put away the harsh rhetoric after the election race, as well as outlined the main tasks he sets for himself as head of the country.