Trade ministers from Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, among others will participate in the informal gathering of World Trade Organization (WTO) here next week.
According to the Economic Times, India is hosting the mini ministerial meeting on March 19-20 in the aftermath of talks collapsing at...
British police have launched a murder investigation after the death of Russian businessman Nikolai Glushkov in London last week, The Guardian reported.
Glushkov, the former deputy director of Russian state airline Aeroflot, was found dead at his home on March 12. A post-mortem examination revealed that the businessman, who was...
Russia and China have cut their holdings in U.S. Treasury securities, with Russia selling $5.3 billion in January. The country has fallen into 16th place on the list of largest holders of American debt, which is the lowest level since February last year.
“We absolutely do not hold American securities...
Russian President Vladimir Putin prepares for Sunday’s election while there is little agreement among his top policymakers on an economic strategy for his next term, officials and analysts told Reuters.
Under 18 years of Putin, many Russians have prospered, with high oil prices contributing to bumper growth rates before the...
Russia will expand its own “blacklist” of Americans in response to new U.S. sanctions announced by the Trump administration, a senior Russian diplomat has said.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Friday that Russia is preparing sanctions against "a new group of American actors" and possible "additional" measures.
Russia will...
The leaders of five Central Asian countries met in Kazakhstan on March 15 after a 10-year hiatus to discuss ways of stepping up cooperation, RBC reports.
All the five nations - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan - are members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a Russia-led loose...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to impose heavy tariffs on China will have a “devastating impact” on the American economy, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has warned.
The comments by the world’s largest business federation on Friday came in the wake of the White House’s threat to impose tariffs of...
U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed documents at the Trump Organization, President Donald Trump’s global business empire, widening his investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
The subpoena, delivered in recent weeks, ordered the New York-based Trump Organization to turn over all documents related to the...
United States authorities announced new financial sanctions against Russia's top intelligence agencies and more than a dozen Russian citizens, in the latest U.S. push to punish Moscow for interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Announcing the decision on Thursday, the White House and the Treasury Department said the measures were...
