Russia reports 8,704 new coronavirus cases, another 402 deaths Reuters 2 hrs ago
MOSCOW, April 10 (Reuters) - Russia reported 8,704 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, including 2,006 in Moscow, taking the national infection tally to 4,632,688 since the start of the pandemic.
The coronavirus crisis center said 402 deaths of coronavirus patients had been confirmed in the last 24 hours, which brought the overall death toll to 102,649.
The government Rosstat statistics service has reported a much higher toll of 225,000 from April 2020 to February.
(Reporting by Gleb Stolyarov Writing by Maria Tsvetkova Editing by Frances Kerry)
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Police detained prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on arrival in Moscow on Sunday after he flew home to Russia from Germany for the first time since he was poisoned last summer, triggering a political clash with the West.
The move, which could see Navalny jailed for 3.5 years for allegedly flouting the terms of a suspended prison sentence, may reignite political pressure on the West to tighten sanctions on Russia, especially against an $11.6 billion project to build a natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany.
In a case that drew wide international attention, Navalny was poisoned last summer by what German military tests showed was a Novichok nerve agent, a version of events the Kremlin rejects.