The trade turnover between Russia and France soared by 25% in first three months of this year, Russia’s ambassador to France Aleksei Meshkov said Monday, according to TASS.
"Russia and France are at a fairly favorable stage of bilateral relations’ development today," he said and mentioned the recent visit of...
Business cooperation between Russia and Croatia has large potential, mostly in the pharmaceutical, energy, food, agricultural and tourism sectors, Russian and Croatian officials and businessmen said at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, held in Croatia’s capital over the weekend.
According to Total Croatia News, Croatian Chamber of Commerce (HGK) president...
Eager to avoid crowded Turkish beaches later in the season, a great number of Russian tourists decided to spend the days of the soccer World Cup in Turkey’s Mediterranean resorts, Daily Sabah reports.
According to the Turkish news outlet, many of the Russians coming to Turkey have rented their apartments...
Russia’s plans to lay fiber-optic cables to islands disputed by Tokyo and Moscow, deplorable" and "without legal basis," Japanese officials said Monday, Pravda reported.
The four islands have been a reason for strained ties between Japan and Russia for decades. The tiny archipelago, which the Russians call the Southern Kuril...
Russia has not asked to rejoin the group of the world's leading economies and is perfectly happy working with the larger G20, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump called for Russia's return.
According to TASS, Lavrov said on national television that Russia "never...
A two-day meeting of G7 leaders in Canada was overshadowed by deepening tensions between Donald Trump and key allies of the United States as the U.S. president surprisingly called on Russia to be readmitted to the group, The BBC reported.
In incendiary comments delivered as he left Washington for Quebec,...
Cryptocurrency is not yet usable as a means of payment in Russia, states a report from the Russian Analytic Credit Rating Agency (ARCA) released Thursday.
“Cryptocurrency does not currently fully perform any of the functions of money, as the exchange rate volatility is too high -- comparable with the volatility...
The Russian rouble edged down on Friday as surging U.S. oil output a weaker demand in China drove the commodity’s price down, Reuters reported.
The rouble was 0.52 percent weaker against the dollar at 0932 GMT, at 62.74 and had lost 0.27 percent to trade at 73.84 versus the euro.
Oil prices...
Russia’s government will specify the concept of the pension reform, including the parameters of the retirement age hike, at a meeting next Thursday, RBC reported citing sources.
The reform is based on the option initiated by the Finance Ministry, which implies an increase of the retirement age by five years to 65...
Sanctioned Russian aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska was on the list of business leaders visiting China with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kremlin documents showed on Friday, according to TASS news agency.
The U.S. Treasury in April imposed sanctions against Deripaska and companies in which he is a large shareholder, including giant exporter...
