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Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about the superiority of the Kalibr cruise missiles over foreign models.

State Duma deputy Vitaly Milonov proposed to call Latvia the Latvian SSR and prohibit the import of sprat from there.

A cocaine stash estimated to be worth around £80 million ($113 million) has been cast up on UK shores.

Rospotrebnadzor will check what effect antistress toys have on children, including pop-it, simple-dimple, squish and the like. This was reported on the website of the department.

The Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine may begin to be produced in two more states. This is reported by Vesti.ru.

The EU intends to donate at least 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccines to the poorest countries by the end of 2021.

As an experiment, "Russian Post" will start selling alcoholic beverages via the Internet.

What to expect from the consumer electronics market in Russia? Experts say that the prices of laptops, smartphones, and game consoles are rapidly increasing by almost a third of the current level.

According to the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, registration of the Russian vaccine "Sputnik V" in Europe is being delayed at the behest of the high offices of the European Union.

Tea suppliers on May 17 began notifying retailers in Russia of a possible 12% increase in the price of tea due to the possible closure of a number of large plantations in India during the peak of the pandemic.

The Indonesian Ministry of Health has suspended the distribution of about 450,000 doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine after the death of one of the patients 11 days after vaccination.

The Shvabe holding (part of Rostec) has developed a Segment Gamma detector capable of detecting explosives and hazardous chemicals in five seconds.

Brazil's national regulator Anvisa said it had sent to the country's Supreme Court a list of documents required to make a decision on the import of the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine.

Hungary became the first European country to receive the entire volume of Sputnik V vaccines under a contract with Russia.

The UN is calling on its staff in countries where Sputnik V is being vaccinated to be vaccinated with this vaccine.