lunes, 22 de febrero de 2021

 

NEWS WRAP

News From Russia: What You Missed Over the Weekend

Navalny's appeal rejected. Bird flu. New vaccine.
POLITICAL MEASURES

EU Likely To Approve Sanctions Over Russia Crackdown

New sanctions are expected to targeted individuals linked to the jailing of Alexei Navalny and a crackdown on protests.
CHARITY INITIATIVE

Russia Starts Giving Coronavirus Vaccine To Homeless

Russian homelessness NGO has launched vaccination initiatives in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
RUSSIA'S RESPONSE

 LIVE | Coronavirus in Russia: The Latest News | Feb. 22

Deaths surpass 80,000. Mass vaccination.
MORE NEWS
COMBATTING THE CONTAGION

Russia Fights Coronavirus

Coronavirus in Russia: The Latest News | Feb. 22
Russia Starts Giving Coronavirus Vaccine To Homeless
Russia Has One of the World’s Highest Excess Death Rates. Why Aren’t Russians Angrier?
Russia Re-Opens to Foreign Students, Easing Coronavirus Travel Ban

HIGHLIGHTS

NAVALNY VERDICT

Moscow Court Upholds Prison Term for Kremlin Critic Navalny

In a closing address that referenced the Bible and Harry Potter, Navalny said he had no doubts about his decision to return to Russia.
SUPPLY AND DEMAND

Looming Supply Glut of Russia’s Sputnik V Vaccine Could Pave Way for Exports

Pharmaceutical industry experts told The Moscow Times that manufacturers are set to overshoot targets while Russians remain indifferent to the jab.
NEW OPENINGS

Russia Re-Opens to Foreigners with Work Visas

Foreign nationals with work permits can now enter Russia as long as their employer obtains ministry permission.
CONTROVERSIAL MONUMENT

Moscow to Vote on Restoring Soviet Secret Police Founder’s Statue

The monument to “Iron” Felix Dzerzhinsky was removed from the KGB headquarters with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
'HUMBLING' EXPERIENCE'

U.S. Diplomats Request Coronavirus Vaccine From Russia – Washington Post

Russia’s Foreign Ministry confirmed that it had invited accredited foreign diplomats to be vaccinated.
CLIMATE CRISIS

Russia's Climate Emergency

Peat Fires Smolder in Siberia Despite Bone-Chilling Temperatures
Japan Seeks Arctic Shipping, Agricultural Partnerships in Russia’s Far East
Russia ‘One Step Closer’ to Year-Round Sailing in Melting Arctic
Scientists Sound the Alarm Over Fast-Shrinking Caspian Sea

OPINION

MICHELE A. BERDY

All That Glitters is Russian Gold

ALEXANDER BAUNOV

Why the Kremlin’s Anti-Navalny Strategy Just Might Work

KONSTANTIN SONIN

Sputnik V Vaccine Gives Russia a Whopping Soft-Power Boost

MARK GALEOTTI

Team Navalny Needs Strategy for the ‘Phoney War’

MICHELE A. BERDY

The Language of UnFreedom from the Gulag

ILYA KLISHIN

Four Ways the Kremlin Could Block Western Social Networks in Russia

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