A Russian news outlet based in the U.S. has registered as a foreign agent with the Justice Department, becoming the fourth Russian-linked media company to do so since November under pressure from the U.S. government, Reuters reported.
RIA Global LLC, which produces content for Russian state-owned news outlet Sputnik, registered...
“Putin’s chef” charged with organizing “troll factory” to interfere in U.S. elections
A company called the Internet Research Agency (IRA) was charged by Special counsel Robert Mueller's office with violating U.S. law and interfering in the 2016 election, along with 13 Russian nationals.
As Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said while...
A federal jury in the United States has charged 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies as part of an investigation into alleged interference in the country's 2016 presidential elections, Bloomberg reported. The charges by the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller described a conspiracy to sway public opinion...
The Russian parliament has passed legislation raising the minimum wage by up to 43%, The Moscow Times reports. The move comes ahead of schedule and slightly over a month before the presidential elections.
With the vote approaching March 18, President Vladimir Putin had previously pledged to raise the minimum wage to...
The Bank of Russia said on Friday the deal between top oil-producing countries on production cuts, aimed at shoring up prices, may hit Russia’s economy in 2018, Reuters reported.
OPEC and non-OPEC countries, including Russia, recently agreed to a joint restriction on crude supply for a second year, to reduce...
Russian giant En+ has invited international banks to buy $1 billion of shares in the company that manages the aluminum and hydropower businesses of Russian businessmen Oleg Deripaska, sources told Reuters.
En+ had its Initial Public Offering (IPO) in November, but the inclusion of Deripaska on a U.S. list of...
Low inflation would support a stable ruble rate in the long term, said Alexander Morozov, head of the analytical department at the Bank of Russia. The official added the level of dollarization in the Russian economy was expected to gradually fall to 15 percent, Reuters reported.
The ruble can play a greater...
The Russian ruble was stable on Wednesday as investors awaited a U.S. inflation report that could influence global markets and heighten fears of faster rate hikes around the world.
Previous U.S. data showing wages increasing at their fastest pace since 2009 triggered the U.S. sell-off that hit Russian stocks and...
A senior Russian lawmaker said Wednesday that Parliament is working on a bill to regulate private military companies after reports that an unknown number of Russian military contractors were killed in a U.S. strike in Syria.
The head of the defense committee in the Duma, the lower house of Russia's...
Armenia should expect sanctions from the United States because of its close relations with Russia amid growing U.S.-Russia tensions, Armenian military expert Karen Vrtanesyan says.
His remark came during a discussion on the possible impact of American sanctions on the subsequent Armenia-U.S. military deals, News.am reported.
“There is a bit of...
