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Russian and foreign scientists plan to work together to study issues related to the new coronavirus, RIA Novosti reports. The corresponding agreement was concluded by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the US National Academy of Sciences. The document was signed by the President of the...
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Foreign experts have shown great interest in the Crimean Tavrida cave, said Gennady Samokhin, who heads the Russian Union of Cavers and is leading a project to study the cave. However, the priority in scientific work is given to Russian scientists, RIA Novosti...
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The construction of an experimental thermonuclear reactor ITER (ITER, International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) has begun in France. The large international project is being implemented with the participation of 35 countries, including Russia, RIA Novosti...
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Russia will host the International Congress of Linguists (ICL) in 2023, the ROPRYAL website reports. It will become the 21st in a row. The Congress will be held by the Kazan Federal University with the assistance of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian...
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The Russian pharmaceutical company R-Pharm has reached an agreement on the production of a coronavirus vaccine developed by the British-Swedish AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford. R-Pharm plans to supply the vaccine to dozens of countries...
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Scientists from Sevastopol State University (SevSU) will go on the second underwater archaeological expedition to Syria. Experts will conduct research on more than one 120 objects off the coast of Tartus. Syria has selected Russian researchers to carry out...
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The Russian Ministry of Health has approved a new drug for the treatment of coronavirus infection. A medicine called Coronavir is developed by R-PHARM, RIA Novosti reports.
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Trials of three prototype vaccines for the new coronavirus have been successfully completed, RIA Novosti reports. According to Rinat Maksyutov, head of the Vector Center for Virology and Biotechnology, these drugs can be called the best in terms of the...
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The first batch of Avifavir, a Russian medicine against coronavirus infection, has been delivered to Russian hospitals, TASS reports. The drug was transferred to clinics and pharmaceutical organizations in Yekaterinburg, Kirov, Nizhny Novgorod, Leningrad...
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The National Base for Genetic Information will be created in Russia. The corresponding instruction was given by President Vladimir Putin. The creation of the base will become part of the integrated development of genetic technologies. The head of state also...
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About thirty test systems for the detection of coronavirus infection have been developed in Russia within two months, TASS reports. As the head of the Ministry of Health Mikhail Murashko said, such tests...
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An electronic dictionary of endangered languages of the small indigenous peoples of Siberia and the Far East will be created by linguists and ethnographers of the Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences....
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The mass production of an ultra-precise test for coronavirus has been launched by the TestGen company of the Ulianovsk Ulnanotech nanocenter. The company has developed the test, which is...
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On May 7, 1895, a Russian engineer Alexander Popov presented a device for remote communication at a meeting of the Russian Physicochemical Society and demonstrated it in action by conducting the first radio session. In 1945, on the eve of Victory Day,...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has included in the list of promising anti-COVID-19 vaccines nine Russian samples, the stopkoronavirus.ru website reports. Six of them were developed by specialists of the Vector State Scientific Center for Virology and...
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Schoolgirls from Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kazan won gold medals at the 9th European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO-2020), which took place online. With three gold ones and one silver award, Russians won the team competition, the educational website...
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Nearly one hundred and fifty African students and teachers from Tanzania, Ruanda, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, Madagascar and Mauritius participated in a 12-day intensive Russian language course in July. It marked the first stage of the Distant Russian in Africa online project aimed to strengthen humanitarian ties with Africa, which had been discussed at the 2019 Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi. 
Dubna, the town of physicists, was founded on July 24, 1946, in the very north of the Moscow region. Previously the most secret one, now it has turned into the most famous science town in Russia. 
The Youth Talks debate club at the Center for the Benelux Languages and Cultures has launched its new session on July 17th. The Center director Maria Pushkova and students Anna Balashova and Daniil Volkov talk about their projects, for the most part associated with commemoration of World War 2 and the Belgian Resistance. 
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The World Chess Day is celebrated annually on July 20. Today it brings together amateurs and professionals of the ancient game, even if over a virtual board only. This day has been marked by series of international online-tournaments opened in Russia and abroad. Russian compatriots are going to launch the Chess Friendship Cup today. 
Holding a contest in the midst of the pandemic is rather challenging, but it is the kind of thing you do for children who have bilingual schooling and live in bilingual environment. Tatiana Henderson-Stewart, the principal of Cherry Orchard Russian School in London, told us about Once I Dreamt contest. They even had to make additional categories of prizes because children wrote very interesting works about their dreams and imaginings, and all the writings were so unique.