Al-Sayed Gamal al-Din – Ahram Online A delegation of Russian prosecutors met with their Egyptian counterparts in Cairo, on Tuesday, to exchange data on the Russian passenger plane crash in Sinai in 2015. “Prosecutor General Hamada al-Sawy stressed, during talks with the Russian prosecution team, the importance of continued judicial …
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Egypt Today “The return of Russian tourists to Egypt will ensure gradual contribution of future foreign currency resources of the Arab country”, a report by Goldman Sachs Group noted on Tuesday. All flights between the two countries will resume after a five-year suspension, since October 2015. In addition, the coronavirus …
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Ahram Online Egypt’s pharmaceutical company Minapharm and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) agreed, on Thursday, to manufacture over 40 million doses annually of Russia’s ‘Sputnik-V’ coronavirus vaccine in Cairo. According to a joint statement, “Minapharm, the regional leader in recombinant DNA, with its Berlin-based subsidiary PrioBioGen AG and the RDIF plan …
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Ahram Online Egypt’s Minister of Health Hala Zayed discussed the possibility of locally manufacturing the Russian-made ‘Sputnik-V’ COVID-19 vaccine, in a meeting with Moscow’s Ambassador to Cairo Georgy Borisenko on Monday. Egypt had approved the emergency use of ‘Sputnik-V’ back in February, making it the third vaccine to be authorised …
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Ahram Online “Failing to resolve the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) crisis would negatively impact the security and stability of the region”, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi told Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday. Lavrov arrived in Cairo on Monday on an official, where he met President al-Sisi and Egyptian …
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Mohamed Soliman – Ahram Online Russia will resume its first direct flight to the Egyptian seaside resort towns of Sharm El-Sheikh and Hurghada on 28 February. Flights to Egypt were suspended in 2015, following a Russian flight crash in Sinai in October 2015. The announcement was made by the head …
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Egypt Today Russia announced “the resumption of international flights, on 8 February 2021, to certain countries including Egypt”, according to a statement by the Russian operational fight headquarter, on Thursday. “International flights would take off from eight international airports of the country, including the cities of Astrakhan, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Makhachkala, …
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Ahram Online “Russia has granted regulatory approval for a second COVID-19 vaccine”, President Vladimir Putin told a government meeting broadcast on state television on Wednesday. Last August, Russia became the first country to grant regulatory approval for a COVID-19 vaccine. It gave an initial approval of the drug before large-scale …
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Ahram Online Russia’s sovereign wealth fund announced, on Wednesday, an agreement to supply 25 million doses of its potential COVID-19 vaccine to Egypt. The doses will be supplied by Pharco, one of Russia’s leading pharmaceutical groups, Reuters reported. The Russian Direct Investment Fund has struck several deals to supply the …
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Egypt Today Russia announced resuming flights to Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and the Maldives, following flight suspension over the spread of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), Reuters reported. A Russian government order published on Thursday, confirmed that “the Russian government had authorized three flights a week to Cairo, two flights …
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