A Russian TV channel has abruptly canceled a sitcom starring Ukraine’s president after an allusion to a crude joke about Vladimir Putin was aired in Russia’s Far East, The New York Post reports.
The political satire served as a platform for Volodymyr Zelenskiy to gain popularity and eventually win the...
The leaders of the European Union decided on Thursday to prolong economic sanctions against Russia over the ongoing conflict in Ukraine by another six months, DW reports.
The decision comes days after the first face-to-face meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in Paris in which...
Five U.S. academics were ordered to be deported on Thursday after a Russian court has found they were giving a lecture at a university on a tourist visa, Meduza reports.
A government order issued this year advised state-affiliated scientists to avoid contacts with foreign colleagues. Russia’s Education Ministry later backtracked...
The governments of Russia and China are aiming to double their bilateral trade turnover to $200 billion by 2024, using projects in energy, industry, high technology, and agriculture, the South China Morning Post writes.
The current trade turnover, worth $108 billion, was reached by the two countries in 2018 thanks...
The growing number of Chinese visitors to Russia, boosted by the recent introduction of electronic visas, are creating problems for landmark museums in the country’s second-largest city St Petersburg, The Art Newspaper reports.
At the St Petersburg Cultural Forum last month, where China was the main guest, culture minister Vladimir Medinsky told newspaper...
A U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday passed legislation with bipartisan support to hit Turkey with sanctions but refrained from voting on a controversial Russian sanctions bill, Reuters reported.
The body also approved legislation to help finance energy projects in Central and Eastern Europe with the goal of reducing the region’s...
Profits at the luxury Morrison hotel in Ireland’s capital Dublin, owned by Russia’s richest woman Elena Baturina sharply increased last year, recently filed accounts reveal, according to the Irish Times.
The hotel increased its annual profits by almost 49 per cent to above $3 million, according to its operating company,...
The sanctions currently being prepared by the U.S. against Russia’s Nord Stream 2 and TurkStream pipelines will not stop those projects, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters after his working visit to the United States, according to RIA Novosti.
"As far as the U.S. military budget is concerned, it...
The head of Russia's financial monitoring service (Rosfinmonitoring) said on Wednesday the country had considerably reduced suspicious cash operations in the last nine months, preventing 886 billion rubles ($14 billion) from being taken into the shadow economy, Reuters reported.
Yuri Chikhanchin said dubious cash withdrawals have fallen 52% in the...
The business interests of mobile operators in the two countries have become an obstacle to canceling the roaming charges between Belarus and Russia, State Secretary of the Belarus-Russia Union State Grigory Rapota has said, according to BelTa.
He was speaking at the conference to mark the 20th anniversary of the...
