Washington’s anti-Russian sanctions and general political tensions between Russia and the United States are causing trade turnover between the two countries keep growing, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the national security adviser to the U.S. President John Bolton in Moscow on Tuesday.
"Despite all of our...
Russia’s former long-running Finance minister and current head of the country’s Audit Chamber Alexei Kudrin has painted a bleak picture of the Russian economy in the next years, warning that U.S. sanctions can completely halt the economy’s recovery.
In an interview with RBC, Kudrin said Russia could enter a...
The Governor of the U.S. state of Utah, Gary Herbert, has voiced his support for the concept of establishing a high-level regional business commission between Russia and the U.S., Russia’s ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov told reporters, according to RIA news agency.
"Today, we spoke about the possible creation of...
A $15 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant is planned by Russia's Rosneft and U.S. oil giant ExxonMobil as a consortium with Indian and Japanese partners, spreading the estimated cost, two sources familiar with the talks told Reuters.
Rosneft, Exxon, Japan's SODECO (owned by Japex) and India's ONGC Videsh are...
Russian businessman Boris Rotenberg, who is under U.S. sanctions over the Ukraine conflict due to his close ties with President Vladimir Putin, has filed suit against four Nordic banks, accusing them of discrimination, a court said on Monday, according to Finnish news outlet Yle.
The lawsuit presented by Boris Rotenberg...
Economic relations between Russia and states in the south of Africa are still developing, as digital technology brings more opportunities, according to the Executive Secretary of the Southern African Development Community, Stergomena Lawrence Tax. In an interview with Modern Diplomacy, she discussed various aspects of SADC-Russia’s economic cooperation.
Russia...
Russia's foreign ministry said on Saturday that the United States is fabricating a pretext to use sanctions against Russia once again, responding to Washington's charges against a Russian citizen accused of conspiring to interfere in U.S. elections, RFE/RL reports.
The U.S. government on Friday charged Russian national and St Petersburg...
The chief executive of Russia’s state-owned Sberbank – Russia’s largest lender – believes that global governments “won’t let go” of centralized models to allow decentralized cryptocurrencies to flourish within the next 10 years, Kommersant reports.
According to German Gref, governments are not yet ready to part with centralized currencies and...
The U.S. Treasury Department has extended the term for American investors to complete operations with the shares and debt instruments of Russia’s GAZ Group until December 12, Vedomosti reports citing to a statement by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
Earlier the U.S. Treasury...
Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, the RDIF (Russia Direct Investment Fund) has put together a delegation of 30 high profile executives from the country who will take part in the Future Investment Initiative business forum (FII) next week in Saudi Arabia, Reuters reported.
Western businessmen who had been due to attend...
