Monday, June 22, 2026
The recovery in pork supply has driven consumer prices in China lower for the first time since 2009, according to new data from the country’s statistics agency, RT writes. The consumer price index (CPI), which measures the average change in prices over time that consumers pay for a basket of...
Strong investor interest in the market debut of one of Russia’s leading e-commerce platforms, Ozon, helped the company to raise more than $1.2 billion when it went public last month, RT reported. Ozon announced the results of its dual initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq and the Moscow Exchange...
The dollar fell by 0.68% to 73.94 rubles on the Moscow Exchange, TASS writes. The last time the dollar was below 74 rubles was on September 2, 2020. By 15:29 Moscow time, the dollar was trading at 74.015 rubles (-0.58%), and the euro - 90.03 rubles (-0.41%). The price of the February...
Kazakhstan will start producing the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against the novel coronavirus this month and begin a mass vaccination campaign next year, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s office said on Friday, Reuters reported. The Central Asian nation will begin production of the Russian vaccine on Dec. 22 and start the campaign...
Russia's communications watchdog Roskomnadzor has sent a letter to Facebook demanding that the social media platform lift the block placed on Baltnews, a Russian-language news portal that operates in the Baltic states, the watchdog's press office said on Friday, Sputnik reported. "Roskomnadzor sent a letter to Facebook Inc. demanding the...
The Netherlands' top court ruled Friday that shareholders in dismantled oil giant Yukos can continue to pursue Russia for $50 billion (41 billion euros) in compensation pending a final judgement in a long legal saga, The Moscow Times reported. Russia was ordered to make the payout in 2014 by the...
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin announced that the government will allocate 10 bln rubles ($133.2 mln) to 25 regions to ensure a balanced budget, TASS informed. "Today we will make a decision on the allocation of another tranche of assistance to ensure the balance of regional budgets, we will allocate...
The trade turnover between China and Russia has been only slightly affected by the coronavirus pandemic while global trade has been declining this year, China’s Premier Li Keqiang has said, RT writes. "Despite the fact that international trade in the world is falling significantly this year, our bilateral trade is...
Spending on Black Friday was down by almost 40% in Russia, payments data from Sberbank, the country’s largest lender, has shown, The Moscow Times reported. While e-commerce sites reported some of their best Black Fridays ever, Russian shoppers stayed away from stores and malls as the country has reported record...
Russia's Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov announced on 13 November that Hungary will receive the first samples of Russia's coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V later this month, Sputnik reported. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto announced on Friday that Hungarian experts will be allowed to visit production sites for Russia's...