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Putin battles to sell Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine amid new rift with the West

Putin has pushed inoculation since touting Russia’s approval of Sputnik V in Aug as the globe’s first Covid shot. But many nations have been unwilling to give it fast-track approval.

Russia opens new criminal case against Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny

Russia's Investigative Committee said Navalny had spent $8 mn on personal purposes from donations transferred to various funds, including the Anti-Corruption Foundation he set up.

Argentina begins Covid vaccination drive with Russia’s Sputnik V

Argentina joins North America, EU, UK, China and Chile in offering preventive shots. It also boosts Russia’s attempts to push the vaccine into developing nations.

Heading from bad to worse, says Russia on ‘deeply hostile’ US under Biden administration

Russia said it hadn't initiated any contacts with Biden’s transition team and added it was up to the Americans to decide when and how to make ties work.

How corruption cuts both ways in Russia’s surveillance state

The Russian state is both strong and corrupt, and it both hogs and leaks the data on which its strength increasingly rests.

All about the suspected Russian cyberattack that Microsoft has called ‘moment of reckoning’

A US-based company’s software update has been used, allegedly by suspected Russian hackers, to infiltrate key US govt depts as well as systems in many parts of the world.

US nuclear agency, three states attacked by suspected Russian hackers

Hackers with ties to the Russian government are suspected to be behind the attack that took advantage of weaknesses in the US supply chain to penetrate several federal agencies.

Pakistan to start building LNG pipeline with Russia in July

Pakistan will have a majority share of 51% to 74% in the project, while Russia will own the remainder, said PM Imran Khan's petroleum adviser Nadeem Babar.

Russia’s Sputnik V is 91.4% effective, says vaccine developers

Developers of Sputnik V, Gamaleya Center and the Russian Direct Investment Fund, said the Covid vaccine has also demonstrated 100% efficacy against severe coronavirus cases.

Russia’s emerging independent media outlets are going after Putin

Vladimir Putin's ostensibly successful campaign to control the Russian media is backfiring in a technological environment that has left him far behind.

On Camera

‘Trade, not aid’—Narasimha Rao’s 1991 reforms speech that changed India’s economic landscape

On 9 July 1991, then-PM PV Narasimha Rao addressed the nation days before the Budget presentation, admitting that the job of repairing India's sick economy won't be easy, quick, or smooth.

Air India reduces baggage allowance by 5-15 kg, bringing it in line with rest of industry

Air India’s new policy, effective from 2 May, introduces new weight limits for tickets in each of the different 'fare families' — Comfort, Comfort Plus, and Flex.

China builds road through Shaksgam Valley, India registers protest

New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.