Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during his annual live call-in show in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, June 30, 2021. Speaking in a live call-in program Wednesday, Vladimir Putin has voiced hope that the country could avoid a nationwide lockdown amid a surge of new infections.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he got his second COVID-19 vaccine shot, three weeks after getting the first dose. The Russian leader announced getting the jab, which was kept out of the public eye, at a session of the Russian Geographical Society, in which he took part via video link.

Russia's naval shipbuilders kept building up the pace of creating advanced ships in defiance of the adverse coronavirus pandemic conditions, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday at a keel ...

— President Vladimir Putin on Friday backed a proposal by the head of Russia's health watchdog to introduce a non-working period over May 1-11 to prevent a surge in coronavirus infections. April 22

Vaccination is the best tool to fight the coronavirus pandemic. This opinion was expressed by the Russian leader Vladimir Putin. “Of course, the so-called lockdowns, that is, the suspension of the activities of enterprises, caused great damage to the economy and real incomes of citizens.

A LEADING ally of Vladimir Putin has claimed the US sparked the Covid pandemic by funding experiments in a Wuhan laboratory. In a bonkers outburst, Vyacheslav Volodin blamed “some kind of leak”...

Grim video footage emerged on social media on Sunday, purportedly showing people sick with COVID-19 laying prone on the floor of a hospital corridor in St Petersburg, Putin's home city which is ...

The Russian economy is nearing its pre-Covid-19 pandemic level, President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday at a meeting with representatives of the United Russia party. “Practically, with the exception of some things that specialists should pay attention to, [Russia’s economy] has generally been restored to the pre-crisis level,†Putin stated.…