And here comes the force of inexorable statistics: in Russia, there are about 1000 kidney transplant operations per year. In the US, this figure varies between 17 000, in Israel and Germany - 15 000. That is why many wealthy citizens of our country prefer to operate abroad.

The current president is Vladimir Putin. Boris Yeltsin was the first president of Russia, Vladimir Putin was second and fourth, and Dmitry Medvedev was the third. The President's duties are listed in the 1993 Russian Constitution. The president directs the foreign and domestic policy of the Russian Federation.

F or Russian citizens, it is extremely difficult to get into Poland these days. Even those with visas for the Schengen zone can be turned away, and the national airline LOT regularly bars Russians.

China’s yuan has replaced the US dollar as the most traded currency in Russia, a year after the invasion of Ukraine led to a slew of Western sanctions against Moscow. The yuan surpassed the.

Though some experts have predicted Russia's economy to in fact grow in 2023, those estimates are based off "cherry-picked" figures touted by Russia's central bank, researchers from Yale said in.

16:20:10 Grain and oil - the latest from the commodity side of the Ukraine war United National Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says he is concerned that Russia will next month pull out of a deal allowing the safe export of grain and fertilisers from three Ukrainian Black Sea ports.

The weather agency in Russia’s Yakutia region said a temperature of -62.7 degrees Celsius was recorded at Tongulakh at 9 am on Wednesday, breaking the station’s all-time low for the third time this month, the report said.

Analysing Ukraine's counter-offensive against Russia Mr Trudeau announced 500 million Canadian dollars (£297m) in new military aid for Ukraine during the unannounced visit.

The working population in Russia was different from other countries in Europe before 1917 because not all Russian workers migrated from the villages to work in the industrial sector. Some of them continued to live in villages and went to work daily, to the towns. Advertisement Advertisement

Official photo shoot of Miss Russia 2022 Anna Linnikova in the crown. 21 October 2022. The finalists of "Miss Russia 2022" answer the questions. 25 July 2022. "Miss Russia 2022" to the children's rehabilitation center "Vdokhnovenie". 21 July 2022. "Miss Russia 2022" with the winners of the contest of different years.

(Image credit: Getty Images) By Angelina Davydova 23rd November 2021 In Russia, oil and natural gas provide both wealth and deep national pride. With global demand for fossil fuels set to.

It’s been six months since the highly-condemned Russian invasion of Ukraine began. Tensions between the countries date back decades and finally came to a head on February 24, 2022, when Moscow.