A local energy company in the Russian city of Samara said Tuesday it briefly cut power supply to the city’s stadium, built for this year's football World Cup over unpaid bills, Reuters reported.
The news comes despite President Vladimir Putin saying he did not want infrastructure built for the World Cup to...
Ukrainian authorities filed an appeal against the decision taken by the World Trade Organization (WTO) in a dispute with Russia concerning railway equipment, said a press release posted on the organization’s website on Monday, according to Izvestya.
"Ukraine filed an appeal on 27 August concerning the WTO panel report in...
The global diamonds market has returned to strong growth, and Alrosa, one of the world’s largest diamond producers, wants to catch up with its rival De Beers by expanding to China and India, Russian news outlet Prime reports.
Alrosa is the world’s largest producer of rough diamonds in carat...
Russia’s remaining sources of foreign assistance and arms sales were targeted by the latest set of U.S. sanctions against the country, authorities in Washington revealed, according to RFE/RL. The measures also include denial of any U.S. credit to Russia, including through the Export-Import Bank.
The sanctions, imposed over the March...
Andrei Belousov, the aide to President Vladimir Putin who proposed a windfall tax for Russian mining and chemical companies, has apparently backed down from the contested initiative, Reuters reports. Belousov said on Friday he would like major Russian firms to invest in social projects rather than pay higher taxes.
This...
A free trade zone between Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) will be established by early 2022, the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade told Izvestya.
The report noted that the interim free trade zone agreement signed in May 2018, which precedes the transition to a full-fledged agreement, covers around...
Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs is considering building up criminal risk for unregistered crypto tasks, the Izvestya reports.
As indicated by records procured by the newspaper, the ministry is building up an alteration of enactment that worries legitimizing just enrolled tasks with open source cryptocurrencies, for example, Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum...
The United States is imposing more sanctions against Russia, with the latest measures, going into effect on Monday likely to bring more economic headaches for the Kremlin. However, the sanctions will also affect U.S. and European companies, including technology exports, The Washington Post reports.
After an initial ban on some...
Turkey and Russia seek to enhance cooperation in various technology fields, including space tech and strengthening the ties between the two countries’ space agencies, Trend news agency reports.
Turkish Technology and Industry Minister Mustafa Varank met Russian Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media Konstantin Noskov on Friday, at...
New U.S. sanctions against Russia for last spring’s nerve agent attack in Britain will go into effect Monday, but their impact will be limited among a raft of other punitive measures already in place, CNBC reports.
But while the measures themselves — largely prohibiting U.S. technological exports and government financing...
