Vladimir Putin is considering running for a new term as Russia’s president if voters approve constitutional changes that would enable him to do so, Russian news agencies quoted him as saying in an interview on Sunday, Reuters reported.
Russia will hold a nationwide vote from June 25 to July 1...
Online retailers can help Russian companies to expand their presence in one of the biggest consumer markets in the world, China, according to Russia’s trade representative in the country, Russia Today writes.
“Russia’s small- and mid-sized businesses should not fight their way to the Chinese market separately,” Sergey Iniushin told...
Russia and Belarus negotiate patiently their economic disagreements, which will have no effect on their alliance, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a televised interview on Russia’s Channel One on Saturday, TASS writes.
"It is a country with which, of course, we have some problems on a number of parameters,...
On Friday, the Foreign Ministers of Russia and Belarus, Sergey Lavrov and Vladimir Makei, signed an intergovernmental agreement on mutual recognition of visas. The ceremony was part of Lavrov’s planned visit to Minsk. The new rules apply from July 1.
“The basis of the document is the full mutual recognition...
The course of the implementation of the Minsk agreements on settling the conflict in Ukraine makes it impossible to lift the European Union’s anti-Russian sanctions, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday after a videoconference meeting of the EU heads of state and government, TASS reports.
"Progress is not...
European Union leaders agreed on Friday to extend until the end of January next year their economic sanctions against Russia over its 2014 annexation of Crimea and the turmoil in eastern Ukraine, Reuters reported.
The EU hit Russia’s energy, financial and arms sectors over Moscow’s role in the conflict in...
Fitch Solutions has projected that Russia will grow its gold output and reserves in light of expanding US sanctions, which in turn would lead to Russian gold production growth overtaking that of China by 2029, Russia Today reported.
“The rising risk of Russian state banks being frozen out of dealing...
India’s air forces are planning to order 21 Mig-29 supersonic fighter jets from Russia, the Economic Times newspaper reported Friday, citing military sources.
"The IAF is seeking to urgently procure 21 additional MiG 29 fighter jets from Russia to add to its three squadrons of the type already in service....
No final decisions have yet been made to change the personal income tax rate, its increase for wealthy Russians is one of the topics under discussion, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday, according to TASS.
"Due to the difficult situation, there is a constant exchange of at...
Russia has drafted a support plan for Aeroflot where the government and state bank VTB would buy into a new share issue by the country’s biggest airline, which has been hit by the coronavirus crisis, two sources with direct knowledge of the plan told Reuters.
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF)...
