Ukraine on Tuesday said Russia should immediately release four nationals detained last week for allegedly fishing illegally in the Sea of Azov, TASS reported.
Ukraine “continues to insist” that these are all “illegal actions of the Russian Federation,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Kateryna Zelenko told AFP.
The fishermen and their boat were detained on...
The unpredicted impact of the coronavirus outbreak on airfreight has forced some dramatic operational changes at Russia’s AirBridgeCargo (part of Volga-Dnepr Group), resulting in a switch from scheduled to charter operations, Air Cargo News reports.
With a reduced schedule, some of AirBridgeCargo’s operational teams have been transferred to shift working patterns,...
The life expectancy of Russian citizens has improved thanks to reducing alcohol consumption, a World Health Organization (WHO) report has indicated, according to China Daily.
The amount of alcohol consumed per person in the country fell by 43 percent from 2003 to 2016, the report says.
Russia has long been considered...
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus is already hurting trade with China, as supplies from the country have shown the first decline, the First Deputy Head of Russia’s Federal Customs Service Ruslan Davydov told a press conference on Monday, according to TASS.
"There has been a certain decline (of imports)...
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday that his government will help Italian companies operating in the country to deal with losses resulting from sanctions imposed on Moscow, RIA Novosti reports.
Russia’s top diplomat said in an interview with the Italian daily La Stampa that the West’s punitive measures targeting Russia...
Share prices in Russia’s utilities sector have surged by 16% last year, with the power sector currently being the only sector performing well in the stock market and is expected to lead it for the rest of the year, bne Intellinews writes.
“The world is slowly but persistently moving toward...
A pair of Russian comedians claim they have successfully pranked Sen. Bernie Sanders into believing he was speaking to climate activist Greta Thunberg and her father in an 11-minute phone call, the New York Post reported.
Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov, who have a history of targeting politicians and high-profile leaders,...
The leading trade partners of Ukraine last year were China, Russia, Germany and Poland, amid an increase in both export and import numbers for trade in goods in 2019 compared to 2018, Epravda reported citing official data.
Ukraine’s trade deficit increased as well, according to the country’s State Statistics Service. In...
Talks between Japan and Russia are making a transition to another phase, when parties discuss key issues in a more positive way, Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said after talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, TASS reported.
"As far...
The largest Russian truck maker KamAZ and one of major cars and light commercial vehicles (LCV) producers Sollers are negotiating an alliance, a spokesperson of Sollers told TASS.
"Yes, we confirm," the source said. "We are indeed discussing the issue of establishing an alliance and specific areas of cooperation," he...
