Saturday, June 6, 2026
According to Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Alexei Zabotkin, addressing at the Renaissance Capital conference, a new crisis is likely, but the Bank of Russia has the necessary instruments to assist the economy and the population in this scenario. According to Zabotkin, present anti-crisis measures are necessary, but after...
According to Zbigniew Rau, Polish Foreign Minister the fourth package of the measures EU adopted against Belarus is aimed at 78 individuals and 8 organizations, TASS informed. The minister emphasized that among the people covered with this package are those who violated human rights in Belarus, presidential administration members, staff...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday met with the head of Norilsk Nickel, the owner of Interros, Vladimir Potanin, as announced by presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. "Vladimir Putin, along with other meetings scheduled for today, had a work-related conversation with the head of Norilsk Nickel, Vladimir Potanin. Potanin informed...
Inflation in Russia may rise somewhat higher in the next months, according to the Chief of the Russian Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, who also predicted a reduction in growth rates in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda magazine. The Central Bank chief says that the effect of the rate hike...
After oil futures and global stock markets, Russian stocks finished the trading week in the negative on Friday, TASS reports. The MOEX Russia Index down 0.42 percent to 3,802.95 points, while the RTS index, which is based in dollars, fell $1.06 percent to 1,646.72 points. The dollar gained 0.57 percent...
Russian President Vladimir Putin promised on Saturday to invest heavily in education, infrastructure, and health care in order to give his ruling party a pre-election boost, according to Reuters. Putin, 68, also declared that two of his closest friends, the military and foreign ministries, would head the campaign for the...
During the period of January-May, the maximum number of mortgage transactions was registered in Moscow for the entire period of statistics, and there weren't enough "symbolic 660 contracts to overcome the next threshold of 50 thousand transactions," Rosreestr reports. The indicator increased by 38.5% by 2019, including in May -...
The Ministry of Labor will simplify the procedure for assigning and paying pensions; for this purpose, the Ministry has developed draft orders, Russian media reported. The first draft of the order provides for the automatic assignment of pensions. This means that a citizen will be able, through the portal of...
It is necessary to carefully study the plans of the West to introduce a minimum corporate tax, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with graduates of the Graduate School of Public Administration talent pool program, Russian media reported. During his June European tour, US President Joe Biden discussed...
The European Commission (EC) has proposed that the European Union (EU) strengthen its interaction with Russia on complex economic issues, the EC report on relations between Russia and the EU said. The EC has prepared a report at the request of the heads of EU countries. The document will be...