Amazing rock art depicting ‘woolly mammoths and rhinos’ were created by an ancient man at least 15,000 years ago, says a new study. The petroglyphs straddling the border between Russia and Mongolia are 7,000 years older than previously thought. The finds at the ancient alfresco ‘art gallery’ have been confirmed in a detailed study by … Read more
Another Russian doctor falls to her death from hospital window ‘after being blamed for spread of Covid-19 at Russian cosmonaut training facility’ Natalya Lebedeva was accused of failing to stop an outbreak, colleagues claim She was involved in treating the city’s ‘patient zero’, a top cosmonaut trainer Lebedev was being treated in Moscow and fell … Read more
A senior doctor in Russia plunged 50 ft from her office window during a conference call when she was told her hospital would be forced to take in coronavirus patients, say reports. Dr Yelena Nepomnyashchaya, 47, a mother of two, had objected to the move because of an ‘acute shortage’ of personal protection equipment for … Read more
Badly paid doctors have quit in droves, fearing for their lives after being told to treat coronavirus patients without adequate protective equipment in a chronically underfunded health system. Ambulances crews queue for hours to deliver patients to overloaded hospitals where medical staff have run out of oxygen – yet desperately needed ventilators have been bought … Read more
Russia is preparing for a major increase in coronavirus cases with regions told to urgently boost available hospital beds and draft in medical students. Infections outside Moscow and its surrounding region have soared 110 per cent in the past week. And the authorities are scrambling deal with a 31-fold increase in a fortnight at a … Read more
TEEN & YOUNG ADULT By Sally Morris for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 23 April 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 23 April 2020 BURN by Patrick Ness (Walker £12.99, 480 pp) BURN by Patrick Ness (Walker £12.99, 480 pp) It’s 1957 and the Cold War between Russia and America provides a tense backdrop of … Read more
It is an issue troubling some of the greatest minds in the world at the moment, from Bill Gates to Elon Musk. SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk described AI as our ‘biggest existential threat’ and likened its development as ‘summoning the demon’. He believes super intelligent machines could use humans as pets. Professor Stephen … Read more
Russia‘s Aeroflot has been named as the world’s most on-time mainline airline in 2019 in a new report. It has beaten Japan‘s All Nippon Airways (ANA), which comes second, and highest-ranked U.S airline Delta Air Lines is third overall. Virgin Atlantic is the UK’s most on-schedule carrier. Meanwhile, Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport is named as the … Read more
There’s only one downside to visiting St Petersburg. You quickly realise you’ll have to return again and again if you want to see everything. I’ve visited the Russian city six times over the past 30 years and still feel I’ve only scraped the surface. The Winter Palace is second only to Versailles in architecture and … Read more