Olga Dobrovidova

Leader of Russia's largest chipmaker elected president after incumbent's sudden withdrawal

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Russia is the world’s fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gasses. Any talk of changing that needs to focus on President Vladimir Putin. Under his leadership, Russia has become a fossil fuel powerhouse. Since he took office in 2000, Russian oil production has risen by 70%. Today, the state is dependent on its revenues. Four in every ten dollars Moscow spends comes from fossil fuels. So the idea that Russia needs to shift away from fossil fuels to prevent the worst effects of climate change strikes at the very heart of Mr Putin’s power.

Two shots offer 81% protection from hospitalization and prevent lung injury, data from St. Petersburg suggest

Russia’s natural gas producers would benefit from a call by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for “alternative” climate research that would “not necessarily imply abandoning fossil fuels.”

27 апреля в сигнале российского «Спутника V» неожиданно возникли новые помехи: бразильский регулятор Anvisa отказал в импорте вакцины, сославшись не только на недостаток различных данных и документов, но и на обстоятельство, которое заставило известного американского вирусолога Анджелу Расмуссен написать в твиттере по-русски «Они обалдели!».

The 20-year-old International Space Station (ISS) is showing its age: Last month, cosmonauts patched up cracks in a Russian module that were thought to be the source of minor air leaks. Cracks are also appearing in the international alliance that keeps the station going. This week, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov suggested Russia would back away from the ISS as early as 2025 to pursue a national space station.

«Другим странам больше достанется» — так пресс-секретарь президента РФ Дмитрий Песков прокомментировал возможный отказ Словакии зарегистрировать «Спутник V» после претензий местного регулятора к российской вакцине. Из полной версии цитаты становится очевидно, что под «другими странами» имелась в виду не Россия — и это довольно показательно.

When the Kremlin last month said Russian President Vladimir Putin had received the first dose of a homegrown COVID-19 vaccine, a guessing game began. Had he gotten Sputnik V, which Russia had given emergency use authorization—a world first—in August 2020 after testing in just 79 patients? Or had Putin been given another COVID-19 vaccine that Russia had sanctioned with much less fanfare—and with equally sparse evidence that it works?

In August, the Russian government unveiled, with pomp and flair, “the world’s first registered vaccine against Covid-19.” Although the vaccine — known officially as Gam-COVID-Vac but marketed as Sputnik V for a global audience — has yet to demonstrate its safety and efficacy in a phase III trial, an emergency use authorization was issued to make it available for limited use in the general public.

RB.RU совместно со Сколтехом запускает серию перекрестных интервью с ведущими учеными и предпринимателями, которые занимаются развитием инновационных технологий.

В мае за соблюдением дистанции между гостями сингапурского парка в районе Бишан-Анг следил необычный патрульный. Это четвероногий робот Spot компании Boston Dynamics, оборудованный камерой и динамиком, из которого он лает на тех, кто не соблюдает правила. Spot испытывался и для доставки лекарств в одном из импровизированных госпиталей для больных новой коронавирусной инфекцией, а сейчас ему активно ищут новое применение в посткоронавирусных реалиях.

MOSCOW — Russian health officials are playing down international concerns that a Moscow researcher plans to create gene-edited babies any time soon, saying for the first time that the experiment would be “premature.”