Incidents

The Finnish government plans to tighten legislation as part of the fight against the coronavirus epidemic; refusing to undergo testing could face a fine or up to three months in prison.

For Americans, such weather conditions are unbearable, while Russians who find themselves in this country know how to help themselves and their loved ones survive the cold.

Demonstrations were held in Madrid, Barcelona and 30 other cities in Spain.

The Russian Foreign Ministry denied to RIA Novosti the information about the construction of a "spy base" on the territory of the embassy in Dublin and told what was actually being built there.

The first prison was put up for sale in Ukraine as part of the "big prison sale". This was announced by the Minister of Justice of the country Denis Malyuska.

A new eruption of Mount Etna on the east coast of Sicily was recorded by experts from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology of Italy.

Protests against the construction of a new hydroelectric power station (HPP) in the region of the resort village of Bakhmaro are taking place in several cities of Georgia.

The African Union's African Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will send an expert emergency response team to Guinea, where an earlier Ebola outbreak has been reported.

Deputy Minister of Health, Chief Sanitary Doctor of Ukraine Viktor Lyashko said that the country will be divided into four quarantine zones.

The West has no moral right to tell Belarus how to live, said President of the Republic Alexander Lukashenko.

The representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Russia, Melita Vujnovich, told RIA Novosti that she had taken one of the two approved Russian vaccines for COVID-19.

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine has launched an investigation into possible purchases by the Ministry of Health of the Chinese vaccine against the Sinovac coronavirus. The purchases were carried out at an inflated price.

On Tuesday, February 9, the US Senate voted that the impeachment procedure against former President Donald Trump does not contradict the American constitution.

Former US President Donald Trump's lawyer predicted that the impeachment procedure could lead to "tearing the country apart." This information is reported by the New York Post news agency.

Olaf Scholz, who is Germany's finance minister, has offered assistance to the administration of former US President Donald Trump to import American liquefied gas in exchange for lifting sanctions on Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.