The Russian Parliament has discussed a new mechanism to bail out insurance companies, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
“A draft law improving supervision on insurance companies, including a mechanism of their bailout, is being prepared by the State Duma,” Siluanov told a meeting with Prime...
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Tuesday the United States and its allies should condemn Russia for its election meddling and cyber attacks, Radio Prague reported.
Speaking in the Czech Republic, Ryan commended unity shown over a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in Britain. The Czech...
An eccentric Russian mathematician who founded the notorious MMM pyramid scheme in the early 1990s that swindled millions out of their savings has died, his assistant said Monday.
Sergey Mavrodi, whose bespectacled face once featured on vouchers issued by the grandiose scheme, died at age 62, his assistant Alexander Vlasov...
A top Russian diplomat says Moscow is preparing a "tough response" to Monday's announcement by the United States that it is expelling 60 Russian diplomats.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the RIA Novosti news agency on Tuesday that Russia was disappointed by the U.S. announcement that it would expel...
This week, Financier Bill Browder, who wrote the bestselling book Red Notice about his experiences with the Russian authorities, called on Jersey to introduce an act similar to the U.S. ‘Magnitsky Act’ and impose assets freezes and travel bans on a number of Russian nationals, The Jersey Evening Post...
Russia’s Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said it is impossible to raise taxes on non-oil and gas sectors and spend additional revenues from the oil price surge on infrastructure and social expenditure.
"We still consider extra spending of revenues from the current economic situation and tax burden rise for non-oil and...
The Trump administration’s decision to close the Russian consulate in Seattle will cause a lot of frustration and uncertainty for thousands of Russian immigrants in the United States, The Seattle Times reports.
Even before the news of the consulate shutdown, getting a passport renewed was an ordeal that took months. Now,...
Russia’s antitrust watchdog, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), will make its final decision on the merger of Germany’s chemical concern Bayer and Monsanto Company in April, the head of FAS, Igor Artemyev, told reporters.
"Some progress has been made recently - China and the European Commission approved the deal, now...
Major Russian companies listed on the United States and European Union sanctions lists following Russia’s assault on Ukraine in 2014 have connections with Ireland due to the country’s role in the global funds' industry, The Irish Times reports.
The fund operations remain legal despite EU and U.S. sanctions, although their ability to...
More than 20 nations on three continents said they were expelling Russian diplomats in response to the poisoning of a former Russian spy in England, just as the United States announced it was responding by expelling 60 Russian intelligence officers, The Guardian reported.
The United Kingdom earlier this month sent home...
