Tuesday, May 21, 2024
The Russian pavilion at the 37th Havana International Fair, FIHAV 2019, is hosted by 12 companies from the country that are already working in Cuba or planning to expand into the island country, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. Russian Ambassador to Cuba Andrei Guskov and Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign...
By John Sweeney President Lincoln knew the value of engagement. He once remarked, when considering a man causing him problems, “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” Despite the strained relationship between the United States and Russia, I choose Lincoln’s approach: “I don’t like that man....
Vitaly Yusufov, the son of former Russian Energy Minister Igor Yusufov, recently bought a $72-million mansion in California making a transaction through Deutsche Bank, The Wall Street Journal reported. The property is located in Menlo Park, where Facebook is headquartered. The mansion was acquired by Vitaly Yusufov's Willow Project LLC....
The inaugural meeting of the Russia-Iceland Chamber of Commerce was held last week at the Russian Embassy in Reykjavik, local news outlet Visir reported. The Chamber’s founding members include more than 40 companies in seafood and seafood technology, food production, innovation, and tourism. Iceland remains participatory in the European Union’s...
Hundreds of millions of dollars have been shipped from Russia to Venezuela since last year, as the Latin American country attempts to sidestep U.S. sanctions, Bloomberg reported citing data from ImportGenius. According to the import-export data provider, $315 million worth of cash in the form of U.S. dollars and euros were...
A former deputy director of a Russian military contractor was charged by a federal grand jury in Utah with bribing FedEx Corp employees to boost business for his U.S. transportation company, local media reported. Millionaire Leonid Teyf, who once served as second in charge at Russia’s Voentorg, and five others...
The head of the provincial council of the Norwegian administrative-territorial unit Finnmark Ragnhild Wasswick spoke about the need to lift anti-Russian sanctions in an article published in the iFinnmark newspaper. During the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of East Finnmark, a two-day conference with Russia was held...
Today in Tashkent, the heads of government of the countries participating in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) discussed the prospects for economic cooperation within the framework of the association - trade turnover grew in 2018 by 21% in annual terms. The participants plan to consolidate this trend by updating the...
The most favorable conditions for buying real estate via mortgage were in the Urals Federal District due to the ratio of the average salary and monthly payments, with an average of 42% of the salary, TASS reports citing a study by Raiffeisen Bank. The three leading regions also included Central...
Russia’s embargo on the import of food products from the European Union (EU) is costing Russian consumers 445 billion rubles ($7 billion) a year, or about $50 a year per capita, according to a study by economists at RANEPA and CEFIR, Kommersant reported on October 29. And the cost is...