Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday that London’s next steps are “rather unpredictable” and Moscow cannot guess what other anti-Russian measures the UK leadership is ready to announce. Peskov was commenting on a possible ban on Russian bonds from the London Stock Exchange.
"Speaking about the United Kingdom,...
The United States is actively trying to use its sway over the contacts of its NATO partner Turkey with Russia, Nezavisimaya Gazeta reports.
Russia and Turkey are gearing up for another meeting of the high-level Cooperation Council due to be held in Ankara in early April. The upcoming event was discussed...
China’s yuan-denominated crude oil futures launched today in Shanghai with 15.4 million barrels of crude for delivery in September changing hands over the first-day trading session, The Trumpet reported.
Glencore, Trafigura, and Freepoint Commodities were among the first to buy the new contract. Within minutes of the launch, the price...
Ukraine has introduced a set of 12 sanctions measures in relation to goods imported from Russia, the country’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv has said.
“I would like to announce that as of today, there are 12 trade safeguard measures introduced in...
Western nations have to tread a fine line between isolation and engagement with Moscow, to avoid the risk of “sleepwalking” into military conflict with Russia, Mathieu Boulegue, an expert on Russia-West relations, has said.
Boulegue, who is UK think tank RUSI’s Russia research fellow, said the mass expulsion of Western...
The British government is considering ways to clamp down on the movement of Russian money through London markets. According to The Guardian, Prime Minister Theresa May is looking into imposing a ban on the City of London from helping Russia to sell its sovereign debt, which supports the Russian...
A Russian official has refuted claims that Venezuela offered to repay its debts in its newly-launched Petro cryptocurrency, Reuters reported.
As Reuters reports, Konstantin Vyshkovsky, head of the Russian finance ministry’s state debt department, told reporters that no cryptocurrency-based debt repayments were on the horizon.
The update came a week after Venezuelan president...
Subsidiaries of Russian steelmaking giant Severstal have filed a lawsuit against the United States government, seeking a court injunction to prevent president Trump’s latest tariffs from being applied to imports of its product.
Trump imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum two weeks ago citing protections under national security laws. Days...
The Russian ruble is headed for a three-month gain, despite the political and diplomatic storm culminating with the expulsion of 130 Russian diplomats, Bloomberg reports.
The latest fallout with the West is doing little to dent investor sentiment so far, as it shows in quarterly returns on the Russian currency over...
Anders Aslund, Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, who offered the U.S. administration his criteria for new sanctions, says Russia can expect new foreign policy surprises this week.
“The US Treasury Department might once again expand anti-Russian sanctions by letting the secret piece of the "Kremlin List" come into...
