Taxi services, supermarkets and various stores in the Russian city of Rostov on the Don River have started accepting Bitcoin Cash (BCH) with stores selling Bitcoin and different BTC teller machines installed in supermarkets, Bitcoin News reports.
This is happening in the wake of crypto-regulation efforts by the Russian government,...
Russia and Pakistan have reached an agreement to boost bilateral cooperation in various fields, including counterterrorism, economy, and trade, Menafn reported.
The agreement was made in messages exchanged between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif, the report said.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the messages have...
Russia and Pakistan have reached an agreement to boost bilateral cooperation in various fields, including counterterrorism, economy and trade, Menafn reported.
The agreement was made in messages exchanged between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif, the report said.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the messages...
A 70-year-old alliance between Japan and the United States is lately under threat as signs of neglect of Japan on Washington’s part are countered by increasing interest from Russia, says Magnus Lundstrom from the Swedish Defense University.
“While relations between Russia and Japan seem closer than they have been for...
The United Kingdom agreed on Tuesday to order its overseas territories such as the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands to try to tackle corruption and tax avoidance by making secretive company ownership information public by the end of 2020, Reuters reported.
Campaign groups have long pressured overseas territories...
The U.S. Treasury Department has extended a deadline for investors to give up their interests in three Russian companies, giving firms time to reduce links to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and ultimately avoid U.S. sanctions, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Late on Wednesday, Washington extended until June 6 a deadline for...
As a slew of Western economic sanctions hits Russia’s economy, the government was forced to decrease military spending, which fell sharply in 2017 for the first time since 1998, a closely followed review said Wednesday.
According to AFP, Russia's military expense last year came in at $66.3 billion (54.9 billion...
Washington isn't seeking to put Russian aluminum giant Rusal out of business by sanctioning the company, but majority owner Oleg Deripaska must reduce his stock holdings to less than 50 percent, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has said.
"The first aspect would be that he sells down below 50 percent,"...
Russian police have raided the Moscow offices of a joint venture including Canadian transportation giant Bombardier as part of an investigation into the Montreal-based company’s business relationships in the country, The Globe and Mail reported.
The raids were conducted as part of a criminal probe into allegations of “corruption during...
Russia’s response to U.S. sanctions should not include a ban on the import of U.S.-manufactured drugs and medicinal supplies, the Chairman of the Russian Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov has said.
According to TASS, Fedotov said he categorically objects to the ban proposed...
