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Russia’s much-feared coronavirus crisis is here — and it doesn’t look like it’s slowing down anytime soon. Russia was always going to struggle if a large outbreak occurred in the country, and experts predicted one almost certainly would due to the country’s proximity to China and tightly packed cities, including…

Image copyright EPA Image caption Mr Putin visited coronavirus patients at a hospital in Moscow last month Russian President Vladimir Putin has admitted that there is a shortage of protective kit for medics as the country battles the coronavirus.This was despite a big increase in production and imports, he said.…

By Tom BalmforthMOSCOW (Reuters) - Even before Moscow's coronavirus lockdown, Ibragim Artykov, a builder from Tajikistan, was down on his luck. Over two months, he had four jobs and in all of them his employers either underpaid him or disappeared without paying him at all.Now the 32-year-old, one of 10…

March is usually an important month for Alexandra Gerasimova’s business, Fitmost, which offers subscription fitness classes across Russia. People want to shape up after the long winter, and revenue from that month helps to cover the income loss during the quieter seasons of spring and summer. But by mid-March, after…

(Bloomberg) -- The foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France will hold a video call in the next week to try to breathe new life into attempts to bring peace to eastern Ukraine.German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Wednesday that he spoke to his French, Russian and Ukrainian counterparts…

A bipartisan Senate report affirms the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusions that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election in a far-ranging influence campaign approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin and aimed at helping Donald TrumpBy MARY CLARE JALONICK and ERIC TUCKER Associated PressApril 21, 2020, 9:35 PM5 min readWASHINGTON --…

Ruslan Nazarov, head of the Murmansk Region Branch of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, at a mobile field hospital in the village of Mezhdurechye on April 15, 2020. Lev FedoseyevTASS via Getty Images Russia has seen a surge in coronavirus cases in recent days.The country has made early efforts to…

By Andrew Osborn and Polina DevittMOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said that Russian authorities had the coronavirus crisis under full control and that everything would work out with God's help, even as the country on Sunday registered a record daily rise in cases of the new virus.Russia on Sunday…

Key developments in the global coronavirus outbreak today include: Global death toll passes 142,000 The total number of coronavirus deaths across the world has reached 142,735, according to Johns Hopkins University, which has tracked the spread of the virus… Read More

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday rejected as counterproductive attempts to blame Beijing for delaying informing the world about the coronavirus, the Kremlin said.Putin and Xi spoke after US President Donald Trump's administration berated China for not sharing data more quickly.Washington is also investigating the…