The country is off-limits to foreigners without a residence or long-term stay permit, according to the diplomatic mission.

The Russian Export Center also considers obvious preconditions are in place for growth of non-resource and non-energy exports in 2021, even if calculating them under a more strict procedure, without gold exports.

The president pointed out that European and Russian partnership is perfectly natural from the economic viewpoint.

The resumption of air service with the four countries has been mostly a declarative move.

A vaccination campaign among medical personnel kicked off in Mexico on December 24.

The RDIF representative noted that the potential production volume is millions of vaccine doses per year.

The recession depth in the country in 2020 turned out to be "smaller than in many developed and developing economies," Putin said.

According to the document, WHO intends to approve several more vaccines from different manufacturers in the coming weeks or months.

Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin tasked the Construction Ministry and the Industry and Trade Ministry earlier with examining a sharp growth of reinforcing steel used for housing construction.

In monetary terms, imports amounted to $4.9 mln, which is almost 7-fold more than a month earlier.