Day: October 20, 2020
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U.S., Russia Edge Back Towards Talks on Nuclear Arms Pact
Russia and the United States on Tuesday were edging closer to breaking an impasse in long-running talks aimed at extending a landmark nuclear arms deal, due to expire within months. U.S. officials said they were ready to meet Russian diplomats as soon as possible, shortly after Moscow stated it could compromise on an American demand.…
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Slight Arctic Warming Could Trigger Abrupt Permafrost Collapse – Study
A few degrees of warming in the Arctic could trigger an abrupt thaw of the permafrost that makes up two-thirds of Russia’s landmass and a subsequent climate change feedback loop, according to a new study based on ancient warming episodes. Three of the region’s largest warming events in the past 27,000 years coincided with rapidly…
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Russian Eco-Disasters Spark Environmental Fears
The largest country in the world is facing a number of ecological crises. In the past month alone, Russia’s environment has seen mass aquatic die-offs in not one, but two places. In the Far East republic of Kamchatka, up to 95% of seabed life was wiped out in the Avacha Bay earlier this month, potentially…
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Coronavirus in Russia: The Latest News | Oct. 20
Russia has confirmed 1,431,635 cases of coronavirus and 24,635 deaths. Oct. 20: What you need to know today Russia confirmed 16,319 new Covid-19 cases Tuesday, bringing its official number of cases to 1,431,635 and breaking the country’s record for new infections. Senior Russian healthcare professionals say they expect the country’s number of daily Covid-19 infections to peak at 20,000 before…
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Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Moscow Pay Tribute to Karabakh Victims
Sunday marked three weeks since the start of the latest escalation in fighting between longtime foes Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. A Moscow-brokered ceasefire has proven to be unreliable as military and civilian casualties continue to rise on both sides. Over the weekend, members of the Armenian and Azerbaijani diasporas in…
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Gazprom Dobycha Orenburg donates personal protective equipment for ambulance teams of Clinical Emergency Medical Service Station in city of Orenburg
News from projects and regions October 20, 2020, 14:30 Gazprom Dobycha Orenburg has donated personal protective equipment for the ambulance teams of the Clinical Emergency Medical Service Station in the city of Orenburg. During the ongoing pandemic, the Station handles over 1,200 ambulance calls per day, about half of which are made by the residents of Orenburg and adjacent areas, manifesting respiratory…
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Russia’s New Coronavirus Cases Surpass 16K in New Record
Russia confirmed 16,319 new Covid-19 cases Tuesday, bringing its official number of cases to 1,431,635 and breaking its record for new infections. This is at least the fourth record one-day increase in Russia in the past seven days. For the first time since the start of the pandemic, Russia confirmed more than 100,000 Covid-19 cases…
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Russia Offers U.S. One-Year Freeze on Nuclear Warhead Numbers
Russia said on Tuesday it was ready to offer the United States a mutual one-year freeze on the number of nuclear warheads held by both countries in order to extend a landmark arms reduction deal due to expire next year. “Russia offers to extend the New START by one year and is ready to take…
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U.S. Revokes Aeroflot Crew Visas Over $50M iPhone Smuggling Scheme
The United States has charged 10 Russian nationals with smuggling $50 million worth of mainly stolen iPhones and other Apple products, the Justice Department said Monday. The investigation has led the State Department to revoke 113 visas of current and former employees of Russia’s flagship carrier Aeroflot suspected of participating in the smuggling scheme. “If…
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‘Comey’s Rule’ on Russia and Russia on ‘Comey’s Rule’
HOLLYWOOD—Former FBI director James Comey was in the news continuously for nearly four years. In 2018 he wrote a book about his experiences, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership” that focused, in part, on his last tumultuous months before and after the 2016 election. In late September his story was told in a new…
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Syzran Refinery Ecology Laboratory Receives International Accreditation
An ecology laboratory of the Syzran Refinery (a subsidiary of Rosneft) received the international accreditation for ISO/IEC 17025-2019 standard.
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Soviet Diehards and Covid-19 Conspiracies: Inside Russia’s Anti-5G Movement
This piece was originally published in Coda Story’s Authoritarian Tech channel. When video blogger Natalia Chernikhovskaya looked out the window of her Moscow apartment building she saw an antenna tower with white panels and a circular dish in the center. At first, she never suspected it could be the source of unexplained headaches and pains that she began…
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Crew in No Danger After ISS Issues Resolved – Russia
The International Space Station is now working normally with no danger to its occupants after the crew managed to resolve a series of technical issues overnight, Russia’s space agency said Tuesday. The crew aboard the ISS had reported issues with the oxygen production system, a toilet and the oven for preparing food. “The problems that occurred…
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Ex-Vedomosti Journalists’ VTimes News Website Goes Live
A group of former Vedomosti business daily senior editors and journalists has launched a new Russian-language news website Tuesday in partnership with The Moscow Times. The project came to life after the appointment of a pro-Kremlin editor-in-chief at Vedomosti sparked accusations of censorship and a mass resignation earlier this year. VTimes, which aims to continue…
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U.S. Trashes Faulty Russian Ventilators From Virus Aid Package – Reports
The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has thrown out ventilators shipped from Russia this spring as part of a coronavirus aid exchange, BuzzFeed News reported Monday. FEMA said in May that it had mothballed the 45 Aventa-M ventilators after they were blamed for two fires that killed seven coronavirus patients in Moscow and St.…
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Rosneft Develops Methane Aromatisation Technology
Scientists of the Rosneft United Research and Development Centre have developed an innovative methane aromatisation technology.
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U.S. Charges Russians With Cyberattacks on Ukraine, French Elections, Olympics
Six Russian military intelligence officers have been charged in the United States with carrying out cyberattacks on Ukraine’s power grid, the 2017 French elections and the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, the Justice Department announced Monday. The six GRU agents were also accused of staging a malware attack called “NotPetya” that infected computers of businesses worldwide,…