A summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) will be held on November 10 as a videoconference, the Russian chairmanship said Wednesday

As a large number of countries in the northern hemisphere began to face a new wave of massive COVID-19 infections in recent weeks, reintroducing lockdowns without properly tracking and quarantining the infected people and their close contacts is unlikely to curb the transmission of the new virus successfully, public health experts told Sputnik

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) observers qualified on Monday Tajikistan's presidential vote, which resulted in President Emomali Rahmon's re-election with over 90 percent, as free, open and legitimate, with no violations registered