Wednesday, April 24, 2024
About 3,000 new Maltese citizenships were granted by the country in 2018, in a continuation of a controversial policy of issuing passports in exchange for investment, The Malta Independent reports. A passport from Malta, which is part of the European Union, gives its holder the right to visa-free travel to...
Savings made through bank deposits, bonds, investments, endowment life insurance (NSH), or renting out real estate may assist maintain a decent living after retirement, according to Pavel Guzhikov, the founder and CEO of the fintech business Money Forward. A bank deposit, according to the expert, is one of the most...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin will hold a classified briefing for House lawmakers on Thursday about the decision to ease sanctions on companies tied to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, Politico reports. Earlier this month, Treasury said it is lifting sanctions on three companies linked to blacklisted Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska. The...
The size of maternity capital in 2022 will be revised taking into account actual inflation, head of the Ministry of Labor of Russia Anton Kotyakov told reporters on the sidelines of the Eurasian Women's Forum. Starting from 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested switching to indexation of mother capital not...
The net profit of Russian banks rose to 1.9 trillion rubles, which is 65% more compared to the same period last year, the Bank of Russia said. This is more than last year and the pre-crisis 2019, Russian media informed. The forecast is much better than that of the Central...
Humanitarian aid has been sent to the most vulnerable members of the Zelenodolsk settlement in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast by DTEK Energy and the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation, a press release writes. A total of 1,914 food packages will be given to persons who have lost their jobs due to the war,...
A 71% increase in the price of shares in Rusal, the world’s second-largest aluminum producer, since the beginning of the year is not the end of the upward trend for the company, analysts told the South China Morning Post. The Rusal share began climbing after the United States signaled its...
Iran exported $533 million worth of commodities to Russia in 2018, up from $392 million in 2017, an Iranian envoy in Russia has said, according to the Financial Tribune. The figure registered a growth of 36 percent in Iran's exports to the country’s northern neighbor compared with the preceding year,...
One of Russia’s few independent service providers in the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) industry, Vostok Technical Services (VTS), has reported a major increase in the number of maintenance checks it performed last year, Russian Aviation Insider reports. The company shared its 2018 results and described its plans for the...
Former investor and founder of Hermitage Capital, Bill Browder, has warned foreign investors still active in Russia that they are risking their own lives as well as their clients’ money. In an interview with one IntelliNews, Browder, who has turned to writing and human rights activism after once running...