The global chemical weapons watchdog agency is to hold a special session in the Netherlands to look into the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal at Russia’s request, CBS News reports.
Russia wants the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to "address the situation around allegations of...
Western countries have rejected Russia’s request to hold an open discussion on a report by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) devoted to the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria, Russia’s UN envoy Vasily Nebenzya told a press conference with journalists via a video link-up,...
The latest tightening of U.S. sanctions against Russia could cause an end to the $12 billion Russian gas pipeline, Nord Stream 2, as well as cause extensive damages to a number of European companies, Handelsblatt reported.
The long reach of Washington’s sanctions has stretched all the way to boardrooms...
Russian business ombudsman Boris Titov has received 123 requests from business persons, against whom criminal cases were opened in Russia, but who want to return home, says an attachment to his report to President Vladimir Putin, whose copy TASS has received.
Titov said he had received requests from "entrepreneurs earlier...
The overall impact of a sell-off in Russian markets triggered by the latest round of U.S. sanctions is expected to be limited for now, but the hit suffered by Russian assets may drive up inflation and cap an economic recovery this year, analysts say.
Financial services company Citi said after...
Russia has asked the United Nations to call on the United States to return Russia’s diplomatic property in New York for humanitarian reasons amid the coronavirus pandemic, Russia’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Gennady Kuzmin said on Friday, TASS reported.
"When the governor of New York State declared...
Oleg Deripaska, the owner of U.S.-blacklisted aluminum company Rusal, is the biggest loser among Russian billionaires sanctioned by Washington for links to the Russian government and its “malign activities”, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
The 50-year-old billionaire’s net worth plunged to a record low on Tuesday, almost three weeks...
Russia’s unemployment rate stood at 6.1% in May, Labour Minister Anton Kotyakov said on Wednesday, an increase from 5.8% recorded in April by the state statistics service, Reuters reported.
Speaking at a conference run by the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Kotyakov said the domestic labor market had made...
The main damage from European sanctions is the loss of confidence, which will be very difficult to restore, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Italy’s Panorama magazine.
"There are various estimates of the damage, different numbers are given. This being said, the main loss is the loss of confidence, which will...
Russia said on Thursday it has quit a voluntary United Nations arrangement that aimed to protect hospitals and humanitarian aid deliveries in Syria from being hit by the warring parties, Reuters reported.
Russia made the decision following an internal U.N. inquiry in April that found it was “highly probable” the...
