Aeroflot on Tuesday reported its first-quarter net loss widened to 22.48 billion roubles ($326.2 million) after traffic tumbled because of travel curbs imposed in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters writes.
In March alone, the carrier’s passenger traffic slumped more than a third from a year ago and was down...
Russians will vote on a package of amendments to the constitution on July 1, President Vladimir Putin has announced. If passed, the new constitution would allow Putin to potentially stay in power until 2036, Russia Today informs.
On Monday, Putin agreed that the proposed date looks "quite suitable for holding...
Moscow agrees with Donald Trump’s criticism of G7 as a “very outdated” institution that does not represent “what’s going on in the world,” but cannot see how it can be improved without China’s participation, Russia Today reports.
The US president lashed out at the group of seven major industrialized nations...
Violent clashes have erupted in major U.S. cities and outside the White House between law enforcement and protesters taking to the streets against police brutality, The Moscow Times reported.
The nationwide wave of outrage was triggered following the death last Monday of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, after being...
The IHS Markit Russia Services Purchasing Index (PMI) was up slightly month-on-month to 36.2 in May from 31.3 in April, but still well below the 50 no-change mark, as the services sector has been crushed by the coronacrisis, bne IntelliNews reports.
The latest headline figure signaled the second-sharpest deterioration in...
Russian authorities have confiscated 70 tonnes of fine European cheeses smuggled into the country in a container and mislabelled as industrial rubber for use in the construction industry, bne IntelliNews reports.
Cheese produced in the EU is one of the items banned by the Kremlin’s tit-for-tat sanctions imposed after the...
The government support measures fail to cover almost 48% of small and medium enterprises, according to a survey conducted jointly by the All-Russian Popular Front and the Opora Rossii organization, TASS reports.
Opora Rossii is an organization bringing together Russian small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
"48% of respondents conduct activities in...
Moldova has asked Russia to discuss again the agreement on a 200 mln euro loan that was earlier blocked by the republic’s Constitutional Court, President Igor Dodon said when answering citizens’ questions on social networks on Friday, TASS reported.
"We have submitted a request to the Russian side to resume...
A Moscow court on Thursday jailed a prominent anti-Kremlin journalist for a one-person protest during the city’s coronavirus lockdown, sentencing him to 15 days in prison, Reuters reports.
Ilya Azar, a journalist at the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, which is critical of the Kremlin, was detained by police on Tuesday as...
Russia and Poland must work to improve their bilateral relations because current tensions and animosity must not be considered normal, says Maciej Gdula, a Polish Sejm lawmaker of The Left party and a member of the parliamentary commission on international relations, TASS reported.
"In my opinion, of course, we should...
