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Russia, AstraZeneca sign pact to test combination of Covid-19 shots

Developers of the Russian Covid-19 vaccine announced signing an agreement with AstraZeneca to test a combination of the British drugmaker's Covid shots and a component of the vaccine created in Moscow

Russia's Alexey Navalny says would-be killer confessed to poison plot

Navalny said he tricked one of his would-be assassins into confessing to the attempt on his life.

AstraZeneca, Russia's Sputnik V developer to sign cooperation memorandum

President Vladimir Putin hailed British drugmaker AstraZeneca's decision to test combining its own experimental Covid-19 vaccine with Russia's Sputnik V shot

Russia working with India to jointly produce Sputnik V vax: Russian envoy

Russia is working with India to jointly produce Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine at Dr Reddy's Laboratories

Global cos, govt agencies among 200 victims of suspected Russian hacking

Of the roughly 18,000 SolarWinds customers that received the infected update, more than 1,000 experienced the malicious code ping a so-called second stage "command and control"

US nuclear agency, three states, Microsoft attacked by Russian hackers

The hack of the nuclear agency was reported earlier by Politico. Microsoft spokesman said the company had found malicious code in its environment

Russia's Covid-19 vaccine rollout receives wary, mixed response

The Russian-made vaccine has received a mixed response, with reports of empty Moscow clinics that offered the shot to health care workers and teachers

World Coronavirus Dispatch: Bats, the human intrusions and the virus

Russia tries to gain public trust over vaccination, Germany set to impose harsh curbs, Hunting is one of Covid's big winners, and other pandemic-related news around the globe

Russian hackers broke into treasury, commerce dept, US officials suspect

Officials said a hunt was on to determine if other parts of the government had been affected by what looked to be one of the most sophisticated, and perhaps among the largest, attacks

AstraZeneca to test combining Covid-19 vaccine with Russian shot

Trials to start by the end of the year

Sputnik V developers offer to share tech with Sanofi-GSK amid vaccine delay

In late November, the Sputnik V developers also offered foreign vaccine producers their help

Russia to establish navy base in Sudan for at least 25 years, govt says

Russia has signed an agreement with Sudan to establish a navy base in the African nation for at least a quarter century, part of Moscow's efforts to expand its global reach

Rift between Russia and Ukraine creates a potential dilemma for India

A Russian press release on Tuesday formally objected to the overhaul in Ukraine of military equipment built and sold by Russia

Russia confirms single-day record of 28,782 new Covid-19 infections

508 new deaths were reported, taking the nationwide count to 42,684

OPEC+ resumes talks on 2021 policy amid discord on how to tackle oil demand

OPEC and Russia resume talks in a bid to define policies for 2021 after an initial round of discussions this week failed to bring a compromise on how to tackle weak oil demand amid a second Covid wave

OPEC+ agrees to raise oil output by 500,000 bpd from January: Report

OPEC+ sources have said Russia, Iraq, Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates have all to a certain extent expressed interest in supplying the market with more oil in 2021

China launches a 1,100-km middle section of China-Russia East gas pipeline

Operations have started on the middle portion of the China-Russia East natural gas pipeline

Putin orders Russia to begin mass coronavirus vaccinations next week

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to begin large-scale vaccinations against the coronavirus next week

Putin orders Russia to begin mass Covid-19 voluntary vaccinations

Russia will have produced 2 million vaccine doses within the next few days, Putin said

Oil rallies as OPEC+ makes headway on output cut deal after days of talks

The Russian government, after internal talks with its own oil companies, has settled on its position, a person familiar with the discussions said on Wednesday