The largest cryptocurrency, bitcoin, surged to a record high of over $44,000 on Monday following the news that Tesla has invested $1.5 billion in the digital asset and expects to start accepting it as payment, RT informed.
Bitcoin soared fifteen percent to trade at $44,141, closing in on an all-time...
As China gets ready to celebrate one of its biggest holidays, the Lunar New Year, authorities in Beijing and Suzhou are handing out 40 million yuan ($6.2 million) in another public lottery as part of digital currency tests, RT reported.
The two cities are reportedly planning to distribute 200,000 red...
Moscow’s budget revenues amounted to almost 2.9 trillion rubles ($39 bln) in 2020, whereas budget expenditures exceeded 3 trillion rubles ($40.3 bln), a source in press service of the city’s finance department said on Monday, adding that budget deficit totaled over 137 bln rubles ($1.8 bln) and was covered...
Austria is ready to produce Russian and Chinese COVID-19 vaccines if they are registered by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said in an interview with the Welt am Sonntag newspaper published on Sunday, as reported by TASS.
According to him, if Russia’s Sputnik V or the...
International agency Fitch Ratings said in a statement it had affirmed Russia's long-term foreign-currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at 'BBB' with a stable outlook, TASS reports.
"Russia's 'BBB' IDRs reflect its credible and consistent policy framework, a strong external balance sheet (with a net external creditor position of 46% of...
Russian companies that invest in Crimea could be granted anonymity under new government proposals designed to protect investors from falling under Western sanctions and stimulate corporate activity on the peninsula, The Moscow Times reports.
Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, triggering strict rounds of sanctions from the U.S. and EU which effectively bans firms from...
A tax-advantaged account that helps you to prepare for retirement is a self-directed IRA, also known as SDIRA for short. Your IRA investment options are widened and more versatile with this type of accounts since they can include certain alternative assets. Besides empowering you to handle them yourself, SDIRA...
Russia finished 2020 with a milder than expected 3.1% contraction, according to preliminary data from the Economics Ministry released on February 1, bne Intellinews reports.
Russia suffered a smaller contraction than most major economies in 2020 after the government opted not to re-impose a lockdown in the second half of...
A coronavirus vaccination campaign will kick off in Kazakhstan on Monday. At first, the country will use the Sputnik V vaccine made in Russia and will shift to the domestically produced Sputnik V vaccine in mid-February, TASS reports.
The production of the Sputnik V vaccine began in the Kazakh city...
Integration within the framework of the Union State is mutually beneficial, though it is necessary to normalize the situation inside Belarus first, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev told Russian mass media in an interview, TASS reports.
"As far as integration processes are concerned, I still assume that...
