A Russian court on Friday fined Twitter 3.2 million rubles ($42,011.29) over its failure to delete what the authorities said was banned content, Reuters reports.
Moscow said last month it had slowed the speed of U.S.-based Twitter inside Russia and on March 16 threatened to ban the social media service...
Austria is ready to produce Russian and Chinese COVID-19 vaccines if they are registered by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said in an interview with the Welt am Sonntag newspaper published on Sunday, as reported by TASS.
According to him, if Russia’s Sputnik V or the...
Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell has asked the United States Congress not to enact sanctions against the Russia-led Nord Stream 2 underwater gas pipeline to Germany, Reuters reported citing the head of Shell's Russian business Cederic Cremers.
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is opposing the project, arguing...
Russia’s Renova Group, a business conglomerate owned by billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, has submitted, a broad list of measures to prop up its assets to the Russian government, Kommersant reports.
The move comes after the U.S. Treasury included Renova and its owner on the latest sanctions list, and the Kremlin offered...
Russia is gearing up for the 2018 soccer World Cup, having prepared special tourist routes, entertainment programs and taste tours for fans and guests of the event, Oleg Safonov, Head of the Russian Federal Agency for Tourism told Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
He stressed that preventing unjustified price gouging in hotels is of...
France has dropped its bid to host the 2025 World Expo in Paris, authorities said on Sunday, confirming a report in French weekly Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD).
The move leaves three cities in contention for hosting the 2025 event: Russia’s Ekaterinburg, Japan’s Osaka, and Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan....
In a bid to boost the ruble’s global role and help offset the impact of Western sanctions, Russia is looking to establish an offshore ruble market, deputy finance minister Alexei Moiseev told Reuters last week.
The process, which Moiseev said was supported by the central bank, includes plans by the...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has extended a ban on Western food imports for another 18 months after the European Union's decision to prolong its broader, punitive sanctions over Russia's actions in Ukraine.
Putin's Thursday decree keeps the food ban in place until Dec. 31, 2019. It follows the EU's move...
The latest sanctions imposed by the United States on Russia had the effect the Trump administration wanted, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said, according to Bloomberg.
The sanctions on Russian oligarchs sent the ruble tumbling and roiled metals markets since their announcement on April 6. Mnuchin said that the sanctions against...
A Russian presidential adviser has proposed to adopt a digital currency in Crimea to attract investors and avoid Western sanctions in the Russia-annexed part of Ukraine’s Crimea, Eurasia Daily reports.
Sergey Glazyev, advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin on regional economic integration, urged the government to adopt “digital money technologies”...
