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A cold winter might force European regulators to speed up the approval process for the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline now running between Russia and Germany

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- Big Tech companies that operate around the globe have long promised to obey local laws and to protect civil rights while doing business. But when Apple and Google capitulated to Russian demands and removed a political-opposition app from their local app stores, it raised worries that two of the world's most successful companies are more comfortable bowing to undemocratic edicts -- and maintaining a steady flow of profits -- than upholding the rights of their users.

Profile of GRU secret agent charged over Novichok attack on Sergei Skripal in 2018

MOSCOW (AP) -- Seven survivors of a shooting at a university in central Russia that left six people dead and 28 more wounded are to be airlifted to Moscow for medical treatment on Tuesday, according to a top education official.

Air purified, everyone back to bed, says Roscosmos, studiously ignoring smoke, burning smell

Peskov stressed that it was important for Moscow to realize what the political system in Kabul under the Taliban would look like "in systemic and personal terms."

HSE University researchers Feodor Uspenskij and Anna Litvina studied the notes of Georg Tectander, a diplomat of the Holy Roman Empire, as collected in the book The Travel to Persia through Muscovy: 1602-1603, and discovered the exact date of birth of Tsar Boris Godunov: August 2 (Julian calendar) or August 12 (Gregorian calendar). The scholars then verified and confirmed this date with other 17th-century sources--in particular, with the notes of Baron Heinrich von Logau, the Empire's ambassador in Moscow. The results of the study are presented in a paper published in the Studi Slavistici journal (Florence, Italy), and in a follow-up paper to be published by the same journal at the end of the year.

Exhibition: Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle , , Venue: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, , Location: Rotunda levels 3,4,5, , Dates: October 8, 2021-September 5, 2022 From October 8, 2021, through September 5, 2022, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle. Drawing from the Guggenheim's exceptional collection of works by Kandinsky, the exhibition features approximately eighty paintings, watercolors, and woodcuts, as well as...

Colorado Springs, (United States), Aug 25: NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told Sputnik that he will travel to Russia as soon as the pandemic situation

Russia's central regions on Wednesday battled "extreme" wildfires fuelled by an unusual heatwave that comes after forest fires linked to climate change ravaged Siberia for most of the summer.

Uniindia: Colorado Springs, (United States), Aug 25 (UNI/Sputnik) NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told Sputnik that he will travel to Russia as soon as the pandemic situation allows, and looks forward to seeing Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin either in Moscow or in Dubai.

Uniindia: London, Aug 19 (SPUTNIK) The Delta variant of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 reduces the effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines in fully vaccinated people, although they still help prevent severe symptoms of the disease, according to a University of Oxford study released on Thursday"SARS-CoV-2 vaccination still reduces new infections, but effectiveness and attenuation of peak viral burden are reduced with Delta," scientists said.

Russia has routinely fined social media giants for failing to remove prohibited content and is seeking to compel foreign technology companies to open offices in the country

MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian prototype military transport plane crashed while performing a test flight outside Moscow on Tuesday, killing all three crew members on board, Russia's United Aircraft Corporation said.

While many countries are scrambling to empty their embassies and remove their staff from Afghanistan, Russia is staying put -- it has long prepared for the arrival of the Taliban in Kabul.

While many countries are scrambling to empty their embassies and remove their staff from Afghanistan, Russia is staying put -- it has long prepared for the arrival of the Taliban in Kabul.

Russian authorities refuse to renew Moscow correspondent Sarah Rainsford's accreditation, in response to the UK's refusal to renew visas for Russian journalists.

The Bombay High Court on Monday asked the Maharashtra government if citizens, who had received both doses of Covid-19 vaccine, will need a third dose or a booster shot of the vaccine anytime in future.

Uniindia: Moscow, Aug 3 (UNI/SPUTNIK) Russia plans to detach the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft from the International Space Station (ISS) Rassvet module and dock it to the new Nauka multipurpose laboratory module, the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, said on Tuesday.

Troubled Nauka might actually make it after four orbit corrections - since we left work Friday.