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“Production of Sputnik V vaccine was successfully launched in Serbia,” Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) announced on Tuesday, confirming that it was “the first European country to start producing the Russian vaccine” – outside of Russia itself, that is. The RDIF, which bankrolled the development …

Video from the scene shows several people in prison robes throwing out objects through busted windows on the third floor of the St. Louis Justice Center. Local media reported chairs and tables were tossed out. The inmates were filmed holding up a ‘Help Us’ sign as police arrived on scene to …

Joe Biden unveiled phase one of his ambitious “American Jobs Plan” in a speech delivered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania earlier this week.  The problem in the plan was not its overarching domestic scope and scale – the $2 trillion dollar plan, representing the first phase of a two-part proposal, is the …

Mazepin was left furious by the early crash at the season opener, which came after he spun twice in qualifying. Making his debut in the championship, the 22-year-old was left to rue a disastrous exit after just three corners of the race. “Very simple – I made a mistake,” he said afterwards, …

Rosstat, the country’s statistical authority, announced on Friday that 37,107 people had died while infected with the coronavirus in January, putting the overall official number of dead at 200,432 and potentially giving the country the third-highest total death toll in the world after the US and Brazil. However, when measured …

The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the treaty was formally signed without any amendments or additions, in effect preserving the arms control accord as it currently exists until February 5, 2026.  The Ministry hailed the diplomatic breakthrough as a “cornerstone of international security” and expressed hope that …

Friday evening’s move comes just two days after the Russian parliament unanimously agreed to prolong the pact that was about to expire on February 5. Earlier this week, Putin and Biden agreed to trigger the five-year extension clause following a lengthy phone call. This launched the paperwork needed to save …

This is because the Biden team is unwilling to understand that arms control treaties further strategic stability between the great powers only if they are an integral part of a network of agreements designed to improve relations between such powers.  The first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) and Anti-Ballistic …

The draft text reveals that the two countries have “agreed in principle” to preserve the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, placing no conditions on the five-year extension. The eleventh-hour deal to revive New START was discussed during a Tuesday phone call between Putin and US President Joe Biden, a conversation …

White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed on Thursday that Biden would look to negotiate an extension of the deal before it sunsets on February 5. “The president has long been clear that the New START treaty is in the national security interest of the United States, and this extension …