Enlarge / Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin (right) speaks to Russia President Vladimir Putin (left) and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko during their visit at the Vostochny cosmodrome on Tuesday. (credit: Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images) To mark the 61st anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic first spaceflight, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited his country’s newest spaceport on […]
It is so simple, at least to anyone not entangled in the middle of the mess. All of Poland, Czechia, and Sweden have said they will refuse to play Russia in World Cup qualifiers at the end of March. While a ban from FIFA isn’t going to end Russia’s occupation of Ukraine, there is no […]
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Enlarge / A sculpture of Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny in front of the Brandenburg Gate at an anti-Putin demonstration on May 9, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. (credit: Getty Images | Adam Berry ) Apple and Google gave a boost to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ruling party by removing a strategic voting […]
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Expand / Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. (charge: Getty | Mikhail Klimentyev ) Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday declared the 2nd questionable acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine which hasn’t yet been assessed in clinical trials. The disease, called EpiVacCorona, is reportedly a faux peptide-based vaccine, that uses fragments of this virus, SARS-CoV-2, to induce protective […]
Expand / Russian President Vladimir Putin speech the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, through teleconference telephone, at Moscow on September 22, 2020. (charge: Getty | MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV) Some United Nations employees are probably cleaning up in their Russian–especially the way to say”Thank you, but no thanks” from the best way possible. On […]