Foreign direct investment in the Russian Far East has grown significantly since 2013, according to Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev. Special economic zoning and concessions have stoked investor interest in the region, RT reports.
“When we started working on the development of the Far East in 2013, the share of...
More than 60% of students in Russia are studying remotely, while some 40% of Russian universities have switched to remote studying, Russian Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov told reporters, TASS writes.
"We have 64% of students . Correspondingly, I think it is a little under 40% of...
Russia’s Economic Development Ministry has upgraded its 2020 GDP contraction outlook to 3.8% from 3.9% projected earlier, Minister Maksim Reshetnikov said addressing members of the Federation Council on Friday, TASS reports.
"After a decline in the second quarter, the economy is gradually recovering. Our 2020 GDP projection is minus 3.8%,...
A vodka box stuffed with more than $1 million of Iranian cash was stolen from the Russian Foreign Ministry building last year, the government confirmed Thursday following media reports.
According to a report by The Moscow Times, Russia had received the $1.5 million stashed in an Absolut vodka box and...
The growth of China’s gross domestic product (GDP) will accelerate to 7.9 percent next year from the two percent in 2020, according to a report by the World Bank published on Wednesday, RT writes.
It has projected that the country’s GDP growth will return to its pre-pandemic level by 2021...
The greenback may fall victim to Washington’s sanctions, as these policies force global players to ditch the US dollar and switch to national currencies in trade, according to the Central Bank of Russia (CBR), RT reported.
“Active use of the sanctions regime by the US administration in recent years is...
Russia’s federal anti-monopoly service (FAS) has accused hotel reservation website Booking.com of violating anti-monopoly law, the regulator said on Monday, Reuters reports.
The statement from the FAS comes nearly a year after it opened an investigation into the company’s move to ask hotels and hostels to offer the same prices...
Britain’s AstraZeneca and Russia’s Gamaleya Institute, which developed the Sputnik V vaccine, will sign a memorandum of intent on cooperation on Monday, Reuters reports citing the Kremlin.
Russia’s RDIF sovereign wealth fund said this month AstraZeneca would start clinical trials to test a combination of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine with...
At just 6 years old, Anastasia Radzinskaya has made the Forbes list of high-earning YouTubers once again, The Moscow Times reported.
Hailing from southern Russia, Radzinskaya broke the internet with her videos of unboxing toys, visiting amusement parks and having play-dates.
She ranks in 7th place on this year’s Forbes ranking...
Russia and Saudi Arabia plan to adopt a roadmap on trade and economic cooperation, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said at a briefing after holding talks with Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz Bin Salman in Riyadh on Saturday, TASS reported.
"Today we have also come to an...
