World trade needs to restore trust between countries, and it is necessary to find a way out of the situation with trade wars and “fights without rules” in international affairs. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking at the summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that the supply of S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems acquired by Ankara will begin in the first half of July, TASS reported.
The Turkish leader told reporters on board the aircraft when returning from Dushanbe, where he participated in the summit of the Conference on Interaction...
A senior American diplomat has warned India that should the country opt to buy Russian S-400 defense systems, relations between Washington and New Delhi would deteriorate.
“At a certain point, a strategic choice has to be made about partnerships and a strategic choice about what weapons systems and platforms a...
The Moscow Exchange’s dollar-denominated RTS Index has surged by 26% since the beginning of this year, with stocks now trading at levels above where they were when Western sanctions were imposed on Russia following the annexation of Crimea in 2014, bne Intellinews reports.
The rise in share prices was...
The Russian central bank on Friday lowered its key interest rate by a quarter-percentage point to 7.5%, citing the recent change in course by the U.S. Federal Reserve toward looser monetary policy, RIA Novosti reported.
Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina said in a statement that a further rate...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) convened on June 14 for a summit in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek. Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov, and the leaders of other SCO member states, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India, and Pakistan, met behind closed doors, Radio Free...
“Huge inflows of criminal money” are mainly coming into Europe from Russia and China, a top European police official said on Friday, according to Reuters.
Pedro Felicio, European police agency Europol’s chief anti-money laundering agent, told the news agency that Russian money laundering is posing further risk to Europe’s Baltic...
Russia’s Accounts Chamber and Finance Ministry have prepared proposals on less severe punishments for economic crimes, including shorter jail sentences, head of Russia’s Accounts Chamber Alexei Kudrin said in an interview with TASS.
"It concerns the terms of sentence for specific economic crimes, significant reduction of possibilities for pre-trial detention...
Commercial exchange between Qatar and Russia will increase to 500 million dollars by 2020, Russian ambassador to Doha Nurmakhmad Kholov has said, according to Prime news agency.
During a reception held Monday night to mark the National Day of the Russian Federation, Kholov announced that Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim...
The depreciating ruble, the drop in oil prices and continuing anti-Russian sanctions have caused Moscow to drop out of the list of top-100 most expensive cities in the world for foreigners, says the new Cost of Living Index report by international consultancy ECA International.
According to the report, cited...
