Is Russia’s Sputnik V vax a surprise success?
Russia was the first country to register a COVID-19 vaccine, with its health ministry giving emergency approval to the Sputnik V vaccine in August 2020.…
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Missing Russian doctor reappears
The medic who allowed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to be treated has turned up after three days.
Doctor who treated Russian opposition leader missing
The medic who allowed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to be treated after he fell ill has vanished, Russian media report.
Russia’s opposition leader is on hunger strike: How long can he survive?
From time to time, generally when there’s a public case of a hunger strike, people ask me how long a person can survive without food.…
Doctors finish heart surgery as hospital burns: Russia
Surgeons stay to finish a bypass operation as firefighters battle a blaze at the same hospital.
First cases of H5N8 bird flu found in humans
Russia has detected the strain H5N8 in poultry farm workers in the country's south.
Sputnik-V vaccine is 92% effective: Lancet
Results from the phase 3 clinical trial have been published in The Lancet.
