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The Nigerian ambassador to Romania has announced that so far about 200 Nigerians – many of them students – have arrived in the capital Bucharest from Ukraine, the BBC reports. Ambassador Safiya Nuhu announced a “good welcome” to the group and said they were staying in hotels after fleeing the …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced the launch of a military operation against Ukraine which he says aims to “demilitarize and denazify” it. “I made the decision for a special military operation”, he said in a surprise statement on television this Thursday, denouncing once again a “genocide” orchestrated by the …

Joe Biden, the American president criticized this Tuesday, Russia for seeking to disrupt the American parliamentary elections scheduled for 2022 by spreading “disinformation”. This statement comes on the eve of the meeting this Wednesday between the number two in Russian and American diplomacy. Referring to informations he received about the …

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) announced Monday that agreements to produce the anti-Covid Sputnik V vaccine have been reached “with companies from Italy, Spain, France and Germany”, pending its approval in the EU. The head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which financed the development of the Sputnik …

The Russian regulatory authorities have decided to “slow down” the functioning of the social network Twitter in order to force the social network to delete several thousand messages; a complete blockage could follow. According to Roskomnadzor, the agency responsible for regulating the Internet in Russia, Twitter has refused to delete …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said Moscow is ready to sever ties with the European Union if the bloc hits it with painful economic sanctions, according to extracts of an interview posted on the ministry’s website on Friday. Relations between Russia and the West have come under renewed pressure …

Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine was 91.6% effective in preventing people from developing COVID-19, according to peer-reviewed results from its late-stage clinical trial published in The Lancent international medical journal on Tuesday. “The development of the Sputnik V vaccine has been criticised for unseemly haste, corner cutting, and an absence of …