At a time when Ukraine is slowly recapturing some of its areas held by Russian forces, a report from The Guardian says that Moscow has been recruiting prisoners to fight the war. The country is luring its imprisoned thieves and killers by promising them they would be freed if they enlist, in an attempt to compensate…
Russia, which has given the world the likes of MiG and Sukhoi, has unveiled a new fighter aircraft named ‘Checkmate’. The aircraft will compete against US’ F-35 in the international market. Russian President Vladimir Putin inspected the homegrown second fifth-generation fighter aircraft at the…
Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Friday that the highly infectious Delta variant first identified in India represents almost 90 percent of new cases in the Russian capital. “The latest data we have received is that 89.3 percent are sick with a mutated coronavirus, the so-called ‘Delta,'” Sobyanin…
Indian men’s hockey team captain Manpreet Singh said that If his team wins a medal at the Tokyo Olympics, it will be dedicated to India’s Covid warriors and frontline workers. India have won eight Olympic gold medals in the past, but their last top finish came way back in the 1980 Moscow Games. HIGHLIGHTS…
For the entire pandemic period, the task force has reported nearly 5.2 million infections in the country of about 146 million people, and 126,000 deaths. Russia’s national coronavirus taskforce on Saturday reported that the country’s tally of daily new infections has risen by nearly 50 per cent over the…