RUSSIA ANNOUNCED ITS WITHDRAW FROM TREATY ON OPEN SKIES

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• Russia is going to launch the domestic procedures to withdraw from the Treaty on Open Skies
• According to the statement from the foreign ministry of Russia, the move of Washington has disrupted the balance between the treaty participants

ALEXEI NAVALNY: HE WILL RETURN TO RUSSIA ON 17 JANUARY 2021

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• The Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said that, he will be returning back to Russia on 17th January 2021
• He said that, it was never a question for him to return back to Russia

On Wednesday, the Kremlin critic ‘Alexei&n...

THAILAND TO CONTINUE SINOVAC DESPITE RUSSIAN DATA

HIGHLIGHTS

• The public authority on Wednesday said it was as yet on target to get and control a Covid immunization by China's Sinovac Biotech beginning one month from now, regardless of information from a Brazil preliminary that demonstrated 50.4% productivit...

RUSSIA USED MODES OF PROTESTS AND ORTHODOX TO DESTABILIZE SITUATION IN UKRAINE

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• Russia used the modes of the protests and church for destabilizing the situation in Ukraine
• The SVR have said that, the Russian Orthodox Church of Russia in Ukraine has been mounting the forms of pressure on the country

T...

VLADIMIR PUTIN: RUSSIA AND INDIA WILL CONTINUE TO WORK ON CO-OPERATION IN 2021

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• The president of Russia said that, Russia and India will be continuing to work towards their co-operation in the year 2021
• Vladimir Putin also said that, Russia and India had been connected by the relations of the strategic partnership

CHINA AND RUSSIA'S PRESIDENT VOWS TO MAINTAIN CLOSE CONTACT OVER VARIOUS FIELDS

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• China and Russia’s president vows to maintain close contact over various fields.
• Xi exchanged New Year congratulations with Putin,
• The China-Russia Year of Scientific and Technological Innovation program was launche...

RUSSIA TO DISTRIBUTE MORE THAN 1 MILLION SPUTNIK V VACCINE SHOTS BY END OF 2020

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• The ministers of Russia said that, Russia will be distributing more than 1 million does of Sputnik V covid-19 vaccine in the country by the end of the year 2020
• The Sputnik V corona virus vaccine is going to be administered in two doses

CHINA AND RUSSIA READY TO DEVELOP COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

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• China and Russia ready to develop a comprehensive strategic partnership.
• Xi Jinping had a telephonic conversation with Vladimir Putin.
• China-Russia ties are said to be strong endogenous power and have independent value.

RUSSIA: VLADIMIR PUTIN DECLARED 2021 TO BE THE YEAR OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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• The president of Russia has declared that, the year 2021 is going to be the year of science and technology in the country
• The government of Russia will be drafting and approve the plans for the main events into the framework of the science...

RUSSIA FILED CRIMINAL CASE AGAINST ALLY OF ALEXEI NAVALNY

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• The country of Russia has launched a criminal case against the ally ‘Lyubov Sobol’ of Alexei Navalny
• Lyubov Sobol had been detained for 48 hours after being questioned

On Friday, the government of Russia launc...

MOSCOW NOT EXPECTING ANYTHING GOOD FROM U.S. PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN: RUSSIAN DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER

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• Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Sergei Ryabkov on Wednesday said Moscow wasn’t expecting anything good from the Democrat

• Meanwhile a day before, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow is planning a response to newly imposed US sanct...

SOLARWINDS HACKERS ARE IMPACTING GOVERNMENTS: US CYBERSECURITY AGENCY

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• The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in a statement said the hacking campaign was impacting enterprise networks across federal, state, and local governments

• Federal agencies like the Commerce Department, the Treasury Department a...

MOSCOW WILL RESPOND TO NEWLY IMPOSED US SANCTIONS: RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV

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• The United States recently sanctioned five companies in China and Russia over the claims that they were promoting Iran’s missile program

• Lavrov said “The United States has long been pursuing a hostile policy towards our country.”

SERGEI RYABKOV: RUSSIA IS NOT EXPECTING ANYTHING GOOD FROM JOE BIDEN’S ADMINISTRATION

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• The foreign minister of Russia said that Russia is not expecting anything good from the administration of Joe Biden
• The interview of the foreign minister has been released after the United States have accused Russia over a major cyberattac...

INDIA’S BAN ON UK FLIGHTS DURING PEAK TOURIST SEASON WILL HURT GOA TOURISM

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• India’s ban on UK flights during peak tourist season will hurt Goa Tourism.
• Hopes of charter flights landing in Goa from the UK also look bleak.
• Travel operators in Goa are hoping that the govt. will allow a travel ...

U.S. SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA, ANOTHER HOSTILE ACT BY TRUMP ADMINISTRATION: KREMLIN

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• The Kremlin said this is another hostile act by the Trump administration and would worsen the already poor relations between the two countries

• After sanctioning Russian companies over promotion of Iran’s missile program, the US government on Mond...

ALEXEI NAVALNY: RUSSIAN AGENT ADMITS PUTTING POISON IN UNDERPANTS

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• The opposition of Alexei Navalny said that, the Russian agent have accepted for putting poison in underpants
• Alexei Navalny has declared that, his case solved after a joint media said has identified a team of assassins from the FSB securit...

SCIENTISTS: RUSSIA CAN DEVELOP VACCINE AGAINST ANY KIND OF NEW MUTATED COVID-19 STRAIN

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• Russia’s top scientist said that, Russia can develop a vaccine against any kind of the mutated novel corona virus strain
• The government of Russia is planning to vaccinate around 80 percent of its total population in the year 2021

FOREIGN MINISTRY: RUSSIA IS RETURNING THE ICON GIFTED FROM BOSNIA

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• Russia will be returning the religious icon that has been gifted by Bosnia, after Bosnia questioned about its origin
• The icon is going to be returned back to its donors for the further clarification

The government of Russ...

U.S. SECRETARY POMPEO ACCUSES RUSSIA OF BACKING A MASSIVE CYBERATTACK ON U.S.

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• Pompeo said “There was a significant effort to use a piece of third-party software to essentially embed code inside of US government systems

• Tech giant Microsoft on Thursday evening said it had notified over 40 customers hit by the malware