A regional court in Russia has declared the richest woman in the country, Yelena Baturina, a fugitive for failing to appear in court in a criminal libel case, RFE/RL reports.
The slander case against the billionaire widow of former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov was reportedly launched in September in the...
Cyprus-based RCB Bank said this week it has conducted the first transactions of Russian Mir cards in the European Union, TASS reported.
Mir (“World”) was launched four years ago in Russia, and since then more than 71.4 million Mir cards have been issued. It has become established as a convenient...
Russia's edition of Forbes has published a rating of the most successful Russian billionaires in 2019, with the biggest shareholder in metals giant Norilsk Nickel, Vladimir Potanin, at the top.
Potanin increased his wealth by more than a third during the year.
“Over the year, the owner of a 34% stake...
Russia’s business ombudsman Boris Titov has basked a presidential proposal to limit the application for businesspeople of a Criminal Code article defining sanctions for organizing a criminal association, the legal information portal RAPSI reported.
Titov wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday that all changes aimed to limit the application...
The Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) has given Russian information security company Angara Service a partnership opportunity to launch its business in the Saudi market, News1 reported.
After being qualified for a Saudi program to support new sellers, suppliers and foreign partners to do business in the Kingdom, the Russian...
New criteria for a maximum debt level for domestic companies are being developed by the Russian central bank is developing to prevent any possible systemic risk at an early stage, Reuters reported.
Elizaveta Danilova, head of the Bank of Russia’s financial stability department told Reuters.
The regulator is keeping a close...
A group of representatives of Vietnamese companies, including state-run energy major Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam), participated in a trade promotion event in Russia’s city of Kaluga this week, VNA news agency reports.
The event was jointly held by the Russia-Vietnam friendship association and the export promotion centre of...
Russian police on Thursday once again searched the Moscow-based anti-corruption foundation led by Alexei Navalny and detained the top opposition leader, a spokeswoman said, according to DW.
“Alexei has been forcibly detained and led away,” his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said on Twitter. “He did not put up resistance,” she said,...
An employee of Russia’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has been forcibly drafted into Russia’s military after being taken from his home by government agents, FBK’s founder Alexei Navalny has said, according to VOA News in Russian.
According to Navalny’s chief of staff Leonid Volkov, Ruslan Shaveddinov, a project manager for FBK,...
Russia-Iran economic ties have not followed the good development of political relations and have a lot of room to grow, the Islamic republic’s new ambassador to Russia, Kazem Jalali, said on Wednesday, according to RIA Novosti.
Tehran and Moscow should "make a leap" in economic relations because the two sides...
