On this day in 1957, the Soviets successfully sent Sputnik into orbit around Earth, ... we've put together a slideshow of stamps about space from the Soviet Union.

The head of the Russian sovereign fund that has backed development of Sputnik V says Russia is ready to provide up to 300 million doses of the vaccine to the COVAX initiative, the UN-backed ...

The Russian-developed Sputnik V vaccine is 91.6 percent effective in protecting against symptomatic COVID-19 — on par with the currently approved Western jabs, according to a peer-reviewed study ...