Russia’s former Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev dubbed the government’s resignation as a routine event and called to take it calmly, Medvedev said in a televised interview on Channel One on Saturday, TASS reported.
"In general, the resignation of a government should be always taken absolutely calmly. There is nothing extraordinary...
Russia increased the volume of investments in U.S. government securities in November 2019 compared to the previous month by $794 million to $11.491 billion, the U.S. Treasury said on Friday, according to Interfax.
Long-term bonds accounted for $2.979 billion, while Russia’s holding of short-term Treasury securities stood at $8.512 billion.
The...
The Russian stock market seemed boosted on Friday by the appointment of a new prime minister, recording new highs, while the ruble held on to earlier gains, Reuters reported.
After accelerating growth on the news of the appointment of Mikhail Mishustin as Russia's new Prime Minister earlier in the week,...
Russian gold and foreign currency reserves have hit $557.5 billion in the first 10 days of the new year, according to the latest figures released by the country's central bank, Rosbalt.ru reported.
Since the end of 2019, Moscow has added $7.7 billion to its forex holdings, increasing them by 1.4...
Isabel dos Santos – the daughter of Angola’s former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos and once ranked by Forbes magazine as Africa’s richest woman – is a citizen of Russia, Radio Liberty reported last week.
The businesswoman’s ties to Russia have been the subject of journalistic investigations for nearly a decade. But according to Polygraph.info...
The inner circles of a wealthy Croatian businessman with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin received millions of dollars from Russia under the guise of fictitious real estate purchases, a new journalist investigation by the OCCRP has revealed.
According to the report, the funds were deposited in the personal bank accounts...
The world’s biggest buyer of gold, the Bank of Russia, is losing interest in the precious metal, analysts told Bloomberg.
After spending an estimated $40 billion on the precious metal in the past five years, the central bank is starting to rein in spending - it bought 149 tons of gold in...
The new Russian government will need about 450 billion rubles ($7.3 billion) in 2020 to implement the tasks set by the Russian president in his annual state of the nation address to the Federal Assembly this week, Russia’s prime minister candidate Mikhail Mishustin said on Thursday, according to TASS.
"We...
The trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Russia increased by 18.5 percent in 2019 year-on-year to reach $3.022 billion, the State Customs Committee told local media.
The country now accounts for 50 percent of Russia's trade with the South Caucasus region, the customs agency said.
According to data provided by the State Customs...
Russian entrepreneur Yury Mosha, who runs consultancy Russian America Inc. in New York for fellow countrymen wanting to emigrate to the U.S., is taking legal action against Google and Yandex, which he claims tarnish his reputation by not removing search results leading to false information related to the businessman, Search...
