Russia Sets Mass Vaccination for October After Shortened Trial
MOSCOW — Russia plans to launch a nationwide vaccination campaign in October with a coronavirus vaccine that has yet to complete clinical trials, raising international...
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Russia’s Vector research center plans to launch COVID-19 vaccine production in November
MOSCOW, August 2. /TASS/. Russia’s Vector State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology plans to launch production of the novel coronavirus vaccine in November, its...
WHO warns of drawn out pandemic as South Africa cases top 500,000
The UN health agency warned that the coronavirus pandemic would be lengthy and could lead to “response fatigue”, as the case count in South Africa...
Russia’s coronavirus cases rise by over 5,400 in the past day
MOSCOW, August 2. /TASS/. Russia’s coronavirus cases grew by 5,427 in the past day, reaching 850,870, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Sunday. According...
‘Cocktails and Masks Don’t Really Go Together’
MOSCOW — When Nest, a cramped Moscow cocktail lounge, reopened for business in late June after more than two months of lockdown, it offered free...
Clinical trials of Gamaleya center’s coronavirus vaccine are over
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, August 1. /TASS/. Clinical trials of a coronavirus vaccine developed by the Gamaleya Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology are over, Russian...
Russia records 5,462 new daily coronavirus cases
MOSCOW, August 1. /TASS/. As many as 5,462 coronavirus cases were identified in Russia in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 845,443, the...
Trump Still Defers to Putin, Even as He Dismisses U.S. Intelligence and the Allies
WASHINGTON — On the eve of accepting the Republican nomination for president four years ago, Donald J. Trump declared that he would pull out of...
Russian Intelligence Agencies Push Disinformation on Pandemic
WASHINGTON — Russian intelligence services have been spreading disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, according to newly declassified intelligence, material that demonstrates how Moscow is continuing...
Fighting False News in Ukraine, Facebook Fact Checkers Tread a Blurry Line
MOSCOW — To understand the complexity of policing online disinformation, consider the small Ukrainian fact-checking group StopFake. Earlier this year, Facebook hired StopFake to help...