The Russian parliament will soon pass an amendment introducing criminal responsibility for executing sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States, a high-ranking member of the parliamentary majority has said.
According to the first deputy head of the faction of Putin’s "United Russia" in Parliament, Andrei Isaev, the Duma could...
Many of the world's largest financial institutions are being pressed by U.S. senators to disclose any ties between their companies and wealthy Russians linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin, a letter released on Tuesday shows.
Hoping to increase pressure not just on individuals on the U.S. Treasury's so-called "oligarchs list,"...
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, said Tuesday that Washington’s statements about potential sanctions relief for Russia’s aluminum giant, Rusal, are “speculative”, adding that he finds it difficult to assess the consistency of the U.S. position on the issue.
"Here I would like to be reserved as those statements are hypothetical....
The world’s leading industrialized countries have decided to create a working group to address what British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called Russia's "malign behavior."
G7 foreign ministers made the agreement, which has come amid heightened tensions with Russia over Syria and Ukraine, during a two-day meeting in Canada ahead of a...
An interim agreement with a term of 4 years that provides for the establishment of a free trade area on a limited range of goods between the Eurasian Economic Union and Iran was signed by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, TASS agency reported.
"The agreement provides for the formation of...
Russia’s national currency, which took a heavy blow after the latest wave of U.S. sanctions, will take two to three months to recover to the level of early April, ex-Finance Minister and chief of the Center for Strategic Research (CSR), Alexei Kudrin has said.
"Western funds overestimated political risks regarding...
Prices of aluminum sank in global markets on Monday after the U.S. Treasury sent out a notice on Rusal, saying that the Russian aluminum giant can continue to export metals if owner Oleg Deripaska gives up control of the company.
According to Bloomberg, the Treasury also extended a previously imposed...
Moscow will not make any unilateral statements regarding cybersecurity, but it will also not agree to take the blame for allegations that are being pinned on Russia, Putin’s special representative for international cooperation in the field of information security Andrei Krutskikh said in an interview with Kommersant daily.
"We are ready...
Nine out of 10 managers from large Russian companies highlighted the mounting government involvement in the economy as a negative trend, a poll conducted by global consultancy The Adizes Institute has shown.
According to the survey conducted on request of media outlet RBC, the bulk of respondents consider the state’s...
European states are working together in an attempt to persuade the U.S. administration to ease sanctions targeting Russia, due to concerns that the restrictions will impact manufacturing activity across the continent, The Financial Times reported.
The initiative, led by Paris, outlines increasing concern over consequences that the U.S. sanctions on...
