German Chancellor Angela Merkel confirmed that in a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, she expressed her readiness to cooperate on the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, but this requires registration with a European regulator.

According to the head of the Federation Council commission on information policy, Alexei Pushkov, criminal punishment should be introduced for organizers of thrash streams, including imprisonment for a term to six years.

The Prosecutor General's Office again sent a request for legal assistance to the German colleagues regarding the incident with the hospitalization of Alexei Navalny.

As Czech President Milos Zeman stated in an interview with the Prague newspaper Mladá fronta DNES on Thursday, it is completely unnecessary to make Alexei Navalny a martyr.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin warned that restrictions will be eased in the Russian capital in the coming days due to the situation with the spread of coronavirus.