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The Russian capital brought in its strictest COVID-19 related lockdown measures in more than a year on Thursday as nationwide one-day pandemic deaths and infections hit new highs amid slow vaccination take-up across the world's biggest country.

The European Union's top diplomat said on Thursday that Moscow was using natural gas to bully Moldova, as the prime minister of the ex-Soviet republic said the country could not afford the prices Russia was now offering.

A top human rights lawyer who fled Russia last month after defending jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's team said on Thursday he had been added to a wanted list by the authorities.

Russia has opened an antitrust case against Apple for failing to allow app developers to tell customers about alternative payment options when using its App Store platform, Russia's anti-monopoly regulator said on Wednesday.

Russia needs to toughen monetary policy to slow inflation and lower inflation expectations, Central Bank Deputy Governor Alexei Zabotkin said on Wednesday, days after the bank sharply raised the key rate to curb growing prices.

Property and technology stocks led losses in China on Tuesday but gains in most other bourses sent an index of emerging market (EM) shares closer to one-month highs, while Turkey's lira firmed 1.5% after sliding to record lows.

Ukraine's health minister urged more people to get their COVID-19 shots as coronavirus deaths hit a daily record of 734 on Tuesday, with hospitalisations up more than a fifth on the previous week.

Turkey's lira sank to new lows on Monday as tensions between Ankara and the West combined with unconventional monetary policy and rising inflation, while most other emerging market currencies firmed against weaker dollar.

Moldova on Monday bought 1 million cubic meters of natural gas via tender from Poland in a trial purchase to diversify the country's energy supplies, the government said.

Russian car-sharing company Delimobil Holding S.A. said on Monday it was looking to raise up to $240 million through an initial public offering in the United States. (Reporting by Niket Nishant in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)