Russia

MOSCOW, October 16. /TASS/: Russia recorded 12,354 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the anti-coronavirus crisis center said on Sunday. The total number of cases has reached 21,304,554.

As many as 744 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, down from 1,657 the day before. Hospitalizations declined in 71 regions of the country and rose in eight regions.

Moscow’s COVID-19 cases surged by 948 to 3,219,483 in the past day and St. Petersburg’s cases increased by 726 to 1,777,854.

MOSCOW, October 16. /TASS/: NATO has in fact got involved in the conflict in Ukraine but it is in no way affecting Russia’s goals, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Rossiya-1 on Sunday.

"In fact, NATO has got involved in the Ukrainian conflict. However, it is in no way affecting our goals. That said, the operation will continue and we will go through with it," he said in an interview with host of the "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" TV program Pavel Zarubin.

MOSCOW, October 15. /TASS/: The current US administration does not need talks on cybersecurity issues, Russian Special Presidential Envoy for International Cybersecurity Cooperation Andrey Krutskikh said in an interview with the International Affairs magazine, published on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website on Friday.

MOSCOW, October 15. /TASS/: The first flu virus of type A (H3N2) case has been registered in Russia on the threshold of a new stage of epidemic rise of incidence, Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor) head Anna Popova announced at a meeting of the department's board.

MOSCOW, October 15. /TASS/: Russia’s COVID-19 case tally rose by 13,384 over the past day to 21,292,200, the anti-coronavirus crisis center reported on Saturday.

As many as 1,657 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in Russia over the past day.

Moscow’s COVID-19 cases surged by 911 over the past day, reaching 3,218,535, according to the anti-coronavirus crisis center. St. Petersburg’s COVID-19 cases increased by 911 over the past day against 963 a day earlier, reaching 1,777,128.

Oct 14 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Germany was unlikely to accept Russian gas from the one remaining undamaged line of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, two days after Berlin rejected his initial offer.

"A decision has not been made and it's unlikely to be made, but that's no longer our business, it's the business of our partners," he said.

MOSCOW, October 14. /TASS/: Russia’s COVID-19 case tally rose by 14,736 over the past day to 21,278,816, the anti-coronavirus crisis center reported on Friday.

A day earlier, 15,477 daily cases were recorded.

As many as 1,750 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in Russia over the past day, down 4.1% from a day earlier. The number of hospitalized patients dropped in 43 regions, while in 33 regions the figure increased. The situation remained unchanged in nine regions.

MOSCOW, Oct 14 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the West used the methods of diplomatic terror against developing countries to get a resolution against Russia adopted at the UN General Assembly.

Western nations threatening developing countries with all kinds of punishments to vote against referendums in the Donbas republics, as well as in the Zaporozhie and Kherson regions, Lavrov announced Thursday to Russian television’s Pervi Kanal.

MOSCOW, October 13. /TASS/: Russia’s Foreign Ministry recently summoned the German, Danish and Swedish ambassadors to Moscow over those countries’ probe into the Nord Stream attacks where Russia was not invited to participate.

MOSCOW, October 13. /TASS/: The United States is benefiting handsomely from the anti-Russian sanctions in several spheres simultaneously, Deputy Secretary of Russia’s Security Council Alexander Venediktov told TASS on Thursday.

"Let’s take a look at the agricultural sector. Six or seven years ago the Americans resorted to provoking a global food crisis, achieving considerable growth in the export of its agricultural products, and used the situation in Ukraine for a redivision of the markets, which includes the goal of promoting genetically modified products," he maintained.