More than 1,000 people were reportedly detained Sunday as thousands of anti-Kremlin demonstrators took to the streets in Russia to protest the government's plan to raise the retirement age in rallies coinciding with regional and local elections nationwide, The New York Times reports.
The protests triggered tense confrontations with...
One of Russia’s biggest industrial companies, steel manufacturer Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK), is keen on investing up to $185 million in setting up a unit at the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) in India, the corporation’s General Manager Gajanan Patil told PTI news agency.
Companies from Russia, China and Japan have expressed...
Global IT companies coming from the West understand Russia's strategic importance and do not want to lose the Russian market despite the fact that U.S. and EU sanctions are making business in the country difficult, Dmitry Peskov, the Russian president's special representative on digital and technological development, said on...
Denmark’s largest bank is investigating whether companies with ties to Russia used it to launder money, examining $150 billion in transactions that flowed through a tiny branch in Estonia, Market Watch reported citing people familiar with the matter.
The $150 billion figure, covering a period between 2007 and 2015, has...
Russia sees no reason to panic over possible U.S. sanctions against Russia’s public debt, although they may have a negative impact on the Russian market, according to Konstantin Vyshkovsky, head of the external debt department at the Finance Ministry.
"Obviously, it would be sly of us to say that the...
The Russian government wants to attract investment from the country’s businesses but is not trying to “trick” them out of their profits, Finance minister Anton Siluanov has said, according to Reuters.
His comments came a day after he met business representative Alexander Shokhin and other heads of companies to discuss...
A potential set of tougher sanctions against Russia could be imposed once Britain has left the EU next March, the British government has said according to The Guardian.
The statement is seen as a hint that Britain will join the United States in preventing Russian sovereign debt from being issued...
Russian economic growth could accelerate to 3 percent in 2021-2022, Economy Minister Maxim Oreshkin told an economic forum on Thursday, according to TASS.
Earlier the economy ministry slightly lowered its forecast for economic growth this year and next because of volatility in financial markets, faster capital outflow and business pessimism...
The Russian online book market’s turnover is on course to surpass $1 billion again this year, after it amounted to 75 billion rubles ($1.1 billion) in 2017, Vedomosti reported quoting Oleg Novikov, CEO and majority shareholder of publisher Eksmo-AST.
Novikov said at the 31st Moscow International Book Fair that the...
India opened the long-awaited two-plus-two meeting between Indian and U.S. top diplomats and defense chiefs on Thursday, Gulf News reports.
The meeting is seen as an opportunity for Washington to come back into Delhi’s focus regarding arms purchases amid tensions caused by India’s deal with Russia for the purchase of...
