A legal framework for Russia’s cryptocurrency and blockchain technology industry will be in place before the year’s end, insists the man in charge of putting together the relevant legislation.
Speaking in detail about Russia’s forthcoming crypto legislation in an interview with media outlet Finversia, Anatoly Aksakov, the head of the...
Three Russian online delivery startup businesses have closed in the past few weeks, as top tech firms vie to dominate a rapidly developing market, The Moscow Times reports.
The new players — Golama, Foodza, and Superbro — failed to turn a profit or demonstrate viable business models, despite receiving multi-million-dollar...
Nearly three quarters (72%) of Russians are ready for a career change, a new poll conducted by job finding service SuperJob has shown, according to Izvestia.
Another 14% are willing to undergo refresher training without changing their jobs. Only four percent consider themselves qualified enough, and three percent either don’t...
Russian business ombudsman Boris Titov said on Monday that business owners have lodged 24% more official complaints about criminal proceedings against entrepreneurs with the government’s in 2019 than the previous year, The Moscow Times reports.
Ombudsman Boris Titov said he was particularly concerned by the sharp increase in the number...
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a decree on including the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV in the list of diseases posing a threat to citizens, TASS reported.
Until recently, the list, compiled in 2004, included 15 diseases such as HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, Siberian plague, cholera and plague.
The number of people...
Russia is stepping up plans to set up a military base in the Somaliland Port of Berbera reports from the United States Defense Department officials have said, according to Russian news outlet Telegraf.
This comes amid reports that Russia has also held talks with Eritrea with an interest to build...
A framework of EU restrictions against countries from Venezuela to Russia, designed to support goals such as defending human rights and fighting terrorism, is initially set to be largely mimicked by the UK following the end of the Brexit transition period, The Financial Times reports.
But UK foreign secretary Dominic...
The Russian ruble slightly weakened against the dollar and the euro on Friday after reports about the first two people infected with coronavirus in Russia, The Moscow Times reported.
At 15:32 Moscow time, the dollar was at 63.5 rubles, and the euro was trading for 70.14 rubles. Then the dollar...
A day after an Israeli-American woman jailed in Russia on drug charges was released from prison during a visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ten citizens of the Middle Eastern state were denied entry to Russia, The Times of Israel reports.
The ten Israelis, who were traveling on an Aeroflot...
The Russian Investigative Committee has asked Moscow’s Basmanny Court to arrest well-known businessman Boris Mints in absentia after he was accused of embezzlement, the court’s spokeswoman Irina Morozova told Vedomosti.
She added that the businessman had been put on the international wanted list.
Mints and his three sons left Russia for...
