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By Reuters Staff (Adds detail) MOSCOW, April 23 (Reuters) - Russia designated a popular independent news site, Meduza, as a “foreign agent” media organisation on Friday, a move that will require it to label itself as such and will subject it to increased government scrutiny. Meduza, which publishes online news in Russian and English, was set up in 2014 in Latvia by Galina Timchenko, who was the chief editor of Russia’s most popular news website until she was sacked when she fell foul of the authorities. The outlet, which covers political news and publishes investigations into corruption...

UPDATE 1-Russia set to announce resumption of charter flights to Egypt -report Reuters 3 hrs ago (Adds detail) MOSCOW, April 20 (Reuters) - Russia will soon announce the resumption of charter flights to Egypt, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday, citing a foreign ministry official. Flights to popular Egyptian resorts were suspended after a Russian passenger plane crashed in Sinai in October 2015, killing 224 people. "Everything is going according to plan. It (the resumption of flights) will be announced in the near future," Interfax quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov a...

2/20/2021 (Adds details, quotes, context) MOSCOW, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Russia has registered the first case of a strain of bird flu virus named AH5N8 being passed to humans from birds and has reported the case to the World Health Organization (WHO), Anna Popova, head of consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, said on Saturday. Russia reported the case to the WHO "several days ago, just as we became absolutely certain of our results," Popova said on Rossiya 24 state TV. There was no sign of transmission between humans so far, she added. Previously another strain of bird flu - H5N1 - has been

20 Feb 2021 / 22:12 H. (Writes through to add context about this strain of bird flu) By Polina Devitt and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber MOSCOW, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Russia has registered the first case of a strain of bird flu virus named A(H5N8) being passed to humans from birds and has reported the matter to the World Health Organization (WHO), Anna Popova, head of consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, said on Saturday. Outbreaks of the H5N8 strain have been reported in Russia, Europe, China, the Middle East and North Africa in recent months but only in poultry. Other strains - H5N1, H7N9 an...

RUSSIA-POLITICS/NAVALNY-PROTESTS (PIX, TV):Russians set for candle-lit Valentine's Day protests after Navalny jailing