The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) applied for registration of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in the European Union on January 29. The fund's announcement about this was published by Interfax on 9 February.

According to the German Ambassador to Russia Geza Andreas von Geir, the expulsion of a diplomatic officer of the FRG embassy from Russia caused bewilderment.

As the head of the German-Russian forum Matthias Platzeck said, the economic damage due to Berlin's possible abandonment of the Nord Stream 2 project would be enormous, but the damage to political relations between the countries "cannot be measured at all."

As stated in the Russian Foreign Ministry, the European Union wanted to arrange a "public flogging" for Russia through a visit to Moscow by Josep Borrell, but it did not work out.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov expressed confidence that by mid-summer the collective immunity of the planet's inhabitants will reach 60 percent. And in August it will be possible to remove the masks for the first time.