Russia

MOSCOW, February 10. /TASS/: Moscow expects that the United States’ Joe Biden-led administration will make up its mind regarding its policy on the Russian track within a month’s time, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told the Ekho Moskvy radio station in an interview on Wednesday.

"I believe that the priorities are to be identified within the current month. Also, they are to begin to implement them," she said.

MOSCOW, February 10. /TASS/: Russia confirmed 14,494 COVID-19 cases over the past day and the total case tally reached 4,012,710, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Wednesday.

For the first time since October 17 the daily case tally was below 15,000. In relative terms the growth rate in new cases stood at 0.36%.

MOSCOW, February 9. /TASS/: Blogger Alexey Navalny’s team members get instructions from NATO countries on how to carry out subversive activities, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on Facebook on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, February 9. /TASS/: Two Russian Tu-160 strategic missile-carrying bombers performed a flight over the neutral waters of the Barents, Greenland and Norwegian seas, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday.

"Two Tu-160 strategic missile-carrying bombers performed a planned flight in the airspace over the neutral waters of the Barents, Greenland and Norwegian seas. The flight lasted about 12 hours," the ministry said.

MOSCOW, February 9. /TASS/: The Russian Progress MS-15 resupply ship that undocked from the International Space Station on Tuesday splashed down in the Pacific Ocean outside shipping routes, Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos announced.

"The Progress MS-15 quit the Earth’s orbit and ceased to exist. The spaceship’s non-combustible fragments that did not burn up in the dense layers of the atmosphere fell at about 12:13 p.m. Moscow time into the ‘spacecraft cemetery’ in the non-navigable area of the Southern Pacific," Roscosmos specified.

MOSCOW, February 9. /TASS/: The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) applied for registration of the Sputnik V vaccine in the European Union on January 29, 2021, and scientific consultations with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) were held on January 19, the fund’s representative told reporters.

MOSCOW, February 9. /TASS/: Calls by Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) - a registered foreign agent - on the European Union and the United States to impose sanctions on a number of Russian nationals don’t constitute a criminal act, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday.

"It’s not a criminal act de jure," he said, when asked if such calls could be regarded as high treason.

NOVO-OGARYOVO, February 8. /TASS/: Russian scientific workforce is becoming one of the youngest worldwide, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Russian Council for Science and Education on Monday.

ST. PETERSBURG, February 8. /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the energy launch of the world’s most powerful source of neutrons at St. Petersburg’s B.P. Konstantinov Institute of Nuclear Physics, affiliated with the Kurchatov Institute research center.

"I am asking you to put the reactor into energy operation," Putin told the participants in the launch ceremony in a video conference mode.

MOSCOW, February 8. /TASS/: Russia’s Su-57 fifth-generation multirole fighter received the cockpit with the maximum degree of automated processes, the United Aircraft Corporation (part of the state tech corporation Rostec) said in its New Horizons corporate magazine on Monday.

The Su-57 features the maximum automation of piloting and combat employment processes, which has helped specialists develop a one-seat multirole fighter, the publication says.