Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia are among the countries that have submitted purchase orders for the Russian-made COVID-19 treatment Avifavir, which has already responded well during clinical trials, the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Kirill Dmitriev said in an op-ed in the Newsweek magazine on Tuesday

The Baltic states banning of Russian media agencies Sputnik and RT amounts to "outright censorship" that aims at causing the European Union and Moscow to become estranged, Claude Chollet, the head of the Journalism Observatory (Observatoire du journalisme) association for media freedom, told Sputnik on Tuesday