The World Bank on Thursday said it would provide $160 billion in economic support for developing countries to deal with the coronavirus pandemic

The proposed 15 percent tax on dividends and interest taken out of Russia will give the country's budget at least 70 billion rubles ($890 million) this year, Olga Lebedinskaya, associate professor of the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics, told Sputnik on Tuesday

India, China and France have submitted the largest number of photos out of 75 foreign countries participating in the 2020 Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest for young photojournalists, and the total number of submitted works surpassed 5,000, preliminary results showed

The border services of the Central Asian countries and Russia have said that international terrorist organizations are increasing their activity in northern Afghanistan and are trying to engage in drug trafficking on the southern borders of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries, the press service of Uzbekistan's State Border Protection of the National Security Service, said on Wednesday

Russia has proved to be a major donor to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and is gradually boosting its cooperation with the agency on various international projects, UNIDO's Director of External Relations Kai Bethke told Sputnik

The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) summit will be held in Russia's Moscow in December, CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas said on Thursday