Voting in the presidential election has ended in Russia. It started on Friday, 15 March, and lasted three days. The last polling stations closed in Kaliningrad at 20:00 (21:00 Moscow time). Four candidates competed for votes in the first round of the election. Following the results of processing 99.67 per cent of the protocols, the incumbent head of state, self-nominated Vladimir Putin, is in the lead with 87,32 per cent. Nikolay Kharitonov, a member of the presidium of the CPRF Central…

Representatives of Omsk State Technical University (OmSTU), a partner of TV BRICS, are working on a new generation Holter monitor. It will collect data and analyse it in real time using special applications on a smartphone. A standard Holter monitor is a device in the form of a box to which ECG electrodes are connected. It is put on a person’s belt and collects information about the heart’s work during the day, and later it is transferred to a medical…

TV BRICS is ready to offer its extensive network of media resources to create a platform for international cooperation, which is being developed by specialists of the National Technological Initiative (NTI). This was stated by Andrey Shket, Director of the Foundation “Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Endowment”, in a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the forum of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) “Strong Ideas for New Times”. This is reported by the official website of the President…

TV BRICS International Media Network and the Moscow City Duma have signed a co-operation agreement. The document was signed at the TV BRICS headquarters in Moscow by Ivan Polyakov, Chairman of the media network, and Alexey Shaposhnikov, Chairman of the Moscow City Duma. The partners agreed to jointly develop co-operation between Moscow and other cities of BRICS countries, to inform the multimillion foreign audience about the interaction between the legislators of the capitals and regions, to assist each other in holding…

Artificial intelligence capable of recognising dozens of pathologies in a matter of minutes is helping Russian doctors in diagnosis. In Moscow, 60 algorithms analyse studies across 29 clinical areas in real time. At the same time, eight neural network services are comprehensive. “Comprehensive services are now available in planar diagnostic methods, X-ray methods, CT, CT assessment of chest organs and MRI. We used to have two different services to define haemorrhagic stroke and for ischaemic stroke. In fact, it is…

A presentation concert of the TV BRICS International Symphony Orchestra took place in Moscow. The event, held in the year of Russia’s BRICS Chairmanship, was attended by top officials from the embassies of the BRICS countries (Brazil, India, China, South Africa, UAE), as well as countries of Africa, Latin America, South-East Asia and the CIS (Zimbabwe, Angola, Mozambique, Venezuela, Ecuador, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Indonesia, Qatar, Myanmar, etc.). The guests of honour also included representatives of diplomatic and business circles, government authorities,…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed to include issues related to ethical standards in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in the agenda of Russia’s BRICS chairmanship this year. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin have been appointed responsible for the fulfilment of the instruction. The task of the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Cabinet of Ministers is to ensure the inclusion of issues related to the formation of ethical standards in the field of artificial intelligence,…

Mikhail Natenzon is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Telemedicine Agency, a member of the Board of the Russian Telemedicine Consortium, and a senior researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1972, he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering (Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics) with a degree in Applied Mathematics. He is a co-author of the project of the National Telemedicine System of the Russian Federation. In 2014 he initiated the…

Russia has signed a cooperative agreement with nearly 30 African universities to enhance the training of mining engineers on the continent. Zimbabwean universities are also set to benefit as there are part of the Subsoil Africa Consortium Universities under which the agreement was signed. The signing of the agreements of commitment for the relevant support and implementation of this initiative follows up on the 2nd Russia – Africa Summit. At the summit African and Russian leaders agreed to explore a…

An agreement has been signed with Russia by members of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVCNU) and African Vice-Chancellors. The Secretary-General, CVCNU, Prof. Yakubu Ochefu, in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Friday, said that the agreement was aimed at addressing challenges in the African education system. Ochefu said that the agreement was geared towards emphasising a shift from an agrarian to an industrial economic model. He said that the agreement titled “Subsoil of Africa”…