A Russian court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by Yuri Dmitriev, a historian who exposed Stalin-era crimes, ordering him to be kept in jail to serve out a 13-year sentence that his supporters say was based on fabricated charges.
Russia to consider vaccinating Euro 2020 staff against COVID-19 By Syndicated Content
Feb 11, 2021 1:35 PM
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russia is considering whether to vaccinate staff working at European Championship soccer matches in St. Petersburg this year against COVID-19, the head of the local organising committee said on Thursday.
St. Petersburg is set to host four matches, including a quarter-final, at the 24-nation tournament kicking off in June after it was postponed by a year because of the pandemic.
Russia has rolled out a mass vaccination programme, but its Sputnik V shot has not been made mandatory.
Asked whether personnel working at the tournament in June and July in St. Petersburg would be required to be vaccinated, local organising committee head Alexei Sorokin replied: We are thinking about it.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Russians have taken to the streets in recent weeks after the jailing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny despite the risk of being detained.
Navalny, 44, was arrested on Jan. 17 after returning to Moscow from Germany where he had been recovering from a nerve agent poisoning in Russia last summer. He accuses President Vladimir Putin of ordering his murder, which the Kremlin denies.
Here are some of the people who took part in the protests and their stories.
Marina Gulina, 51, a computer programmer, took to the streets of Moscow on Jan. 31 and was detained.
An alligator rumoured to have belonged to Adolf Hitler has been preserved for posterity after dying this year at Moscow Zoo.
The 84-year-old reptile was found by British soldiers in Berlin after the Second World War and passed to the Red Army.
Named Saturn, the alligator was taken to the Soviet capital in 1946 and became an icon of Moscow Zoo for generations of children.
The alligator named Saturn is placed on display following its death in May of this year
An alligator rumoured to have belonged to Adolf Hitler has been preserved for posterity after dying this year at Moscow Zoo