Monday, June 29, 2026
Roaming charges within the Union State of Russia and Belarus are to be abolished by September 2020, Yevgeny Novikov, a spokesman for the Russian ministry of communication, told TASS on Sunday citing a final edition of the roadmap that has been signed by Russia and is to be signed...
Russia will retaliate against U.S. sanctions without hurting itself, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the Bolshaya Igra program on Russia’s television Channel One, TASS reported. "We will respond to sanctions but in a way not to hurt ourselves. But we will definitely respond. And we...
Analysts are predicting the trend of buying gold by central banks across the world to continue into 2020, Seeking Alpha writes. Taking its gold reserves to over $100 billion this year, the Bank of Russia has been one of the forerunners of the gold-buying spree. Through the end of October, net...
A court in Italy’s Naples has ruled to extradite a Russian businessman accused of corporate espionage to the United States, the man’s attorney Gian Domenico Caiazza told reporters on Friday, according to RIA Novosti. Alexander Korshunov, a business development director for the Russian United Engine Corporation (UEC), was arrested in...
A Russian investigation firm has offered a bounty in London for information about the assets of billionaire fugitive Georgy Bedzhamov, Sky News reports. Asset recovery firm A1, acting on behalf of Russian financial authorities, is offering cash rewards for information on the whereabouts and wealth of Bedzhamov, the former head of the...
A Russian banker awaiting trial on charges of organized crime has taken out a full-page newspaper ad on Wednesday to warn businesspeople that they too could face a similar fate, the Moscow Times reports. “Happy New Year, dear businessmen! The end of December: gifts, traffic jams, parties. You are getting...
The head of Russia’s Audit Chamber said on Thursday that despite implementing nearly all planned activities, the Bank of Russia has failed to substantially develop the country’s financial market, Nezavisimaya Gazeta reports. “In some respects, on the contrary, the situation has deteriorated, there are signs of reduced competition,” Kudrin said. “Despite the...
BlaBlaCar has completed a deal to acquire international bus ticketing platform Busfor, after obtaining the required antitrust permits in Ukraine, CNews.ru reports.  French carpooling giant is expanding to a new market segment with the move, first announced in September.  The deal’s terms have not been disclosed, but it might be a...
U.S.-based outdoor and winter gear apparel brand The North Face will be opening its first store in Russia early next year, the company has said, according to Sostav. The store will open at Russia's Saint Petersburg Galeria Shopping Mall in March 2020. Moscow-based company Inventive Retail Group, which is already working...
A five-year-old Russian-American girl is the world’s third-richest YouTuber, according to a new ranking by Forbes. Anastasia Radzinskaya, who was born in Russia’s Krasnodar but moved to Florida last year, earned an estimated $18 million from views on her videos between June 2018 and June 2019, the business magazine writes....