Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov paid an official visit to Caracas last Friday to express his support for the President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro, New Europe reported.
Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump met with Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaidó at the White House. After disputing president Nicolas Maduro‘s 2018 controversial re-election, Guaidó...
Moscow is counting on signing major new contracts between Russia and African partners, said Oleg Ozerov, deputy director of the African Department at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at a press conference organized by the Russia Today MIA.
He recalled that very large contracts were signed at the Russia-Africa...
Russia’s flag carrier Aeroflot has started paying extra money to its crews flying to China, the Sheremetyevo Air Traffic Trade Union said on its site on Saturday, according to Yakutia 24.
The service crews at those flights will receive an extra 8,300 rubles (about $130) per flight, the union said.
"The...
About half of the landowners in Rublyovka, a luxury suburb in Moscow, are linked to Russia’s ruling elite, news website Proekt has revealed in a massive investigation published last week.
800 Kremlin functionaries, governors and mayors own an estimated 1.3 trillion rubles ($20.75 billion) in properties dotting the Rublyovo-Uspenskoye Highway in western...
The Bitcoin exchange rate on Sunday for the first time since October last year crossed the psychological threshold of $10,000, TASS reported citing Coindesk.
As of 15:42 Moscow time, the Bitcoin exchange rate was $ 10.145 (an increase of 3.27%).
Bitcoin reached its maximum value of $20,000 in December 2017.
Bitcoin is...
The key interest rate has been reduced to 6% per annum, already the Bank of Russia, as confirmed by Bank's Chairman Elvira Nabiullina, may move to a soft monetary policy, Kommersant reported.
The combination of circumstances that the Bank of Russia faced in February 2020 apparently did not leave room...
The question of relations between Moscow and Minsk is "really very emotional," said Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Russian president, RIA Novosti reported.
The Kremlin representative commented on the remarks of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, who, on the eve of the meeting with Vladimir Putin, said that "a certain moment...
Russia’s new prime minister Mikhail Mishustin earned more than $35 million from his two-year spell at Russian investment group UFG, his former colleagues have told RBC, addressing questions which have been raised over how he and his family came to obtain millions of dollars worth of assets.
Mishustin worked at...
The Moscow Exchange has revised the index free float (number of ordinary shares allowed in free float) of Russian energy giant Gazprom to 50%, it said on Thursday, according to Interfax.
“The updated free float factor will apply in index calculation from March 20, 2020, the date of the regular index...
A top Kremlin adviser has urged Russia’s business giants to start adapting now if they want to continue selling their wares in the European market after the EU outlined a plan to deploy a carbon border tax, Euraktiv reports.
At a press conference on Thursday (February 6), Vladimir Putin’s climate...
