Author: Steven Sahiounie

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian denounced the continued inability of the United Nations Security Council to stop the war against the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Amirabdollahian noted that the Security Council’s failure to put an end to the genocidal war on Gaza was due to the US’s prevention of the council’s effective actions through excessive resort to the right of veto. He made the remarks in a letter addressed to United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, the head of the UN Security Council, the secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) as well as the foreign…

Dmitry Chernyshenko also noted that by 2030, artificial intelligence will be actively used in all Russian regions, in particular in territorial planning, in medicine, and in the provision of social services

MOSCOW, March 13. /TASS/. Sber plans to earn around 400-450 bln rubles ($4.4-4.9 bln) using artificial intelligence (AI) in 2024, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sberbank Alexander Vedyakhin said.

Early voting in Russia’s presidential election is taking place abroad without any incidents, over 40,000 people have already cast their ballots, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. “Early voting is underway. It has already taken place in 23 countries, and 29 election commissions are supervising it. As of March 12, more than 40,000 Russians have already voted,” the diplomat said. “Voting is taking place without any serious incidents,” she pointed out. According to the spokeswoman, local Russian officials are ready to provide any assistance at the first request of their fellow citizens. The Russian Federation Council, or upper house…

YAKUTSK, March 13. /TASS/. The population of musk oxen, which first were brought to Yakutia’s Arctic districts in 1996, reached 6,500 animals, the region’s Ministry of Ecology, Nature Management and Forestry told TASS.

MOSCOW, March 13. /TASS/. The Tagansky District Court of Moscow court fined the Viber messenger 800,000 rubles ($8,756) for a new episode related to refusal to delete banned content, the court’s press service told TASS.

“In January-February 2024, 60,000 Russian citizens visited Sri Lanka,” Levan Dzhagaryan said, adding that Russian citizens consistently hold the first position in the number of tourists on the island

In compliance with the document, from 2025, the government will subsidize costs to deliver construction materials to the Arctic districts

MOSCOW, March 13. /TASS/. Sibur is going to scale investments up in 2024 to 346 bln rubles ($3.8 bln) against 225 bln rubles ($2.5 bln) a year earlier, the Russian petrochemical company told reporters.

MOSCOW, March 13. /TASS/. More than one million video surveillance cameras are operating in Russia, Minister for Digital Development Maksut Shadaev said at the Russia Expo forum.