Friday, March 29, 2024
Sheremetyevo International Airport has summed up the results of production activity for July and seven months of 2021. The number of passengers served since the beginning of the year amounted to 15 million people, which is 33.6% higher than the same indicator of the previous year. Passenger traffic in July reached...
U.S.-based multinational payment system Visa, FIFA’s official partner and global sponsor of the World Cup, has released its initial data on expenditures by foreign fans visiting Russia for the tournament, RBC reported. The biggest spenders at the World Cup were visitors from the United States, China, and Mexico. Football fans in...
The ruble-to-dollar exchange rate in Russia has exceeded 66 rubles per dollar for the first time since September 2019, and stock indexes have plunged to their lowest levels in months, which is partly due to the global coronavirus outbreak, Kommersant writes. The rapid spread of the novel coronavirus outside of...
Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine will cost under $20 per person on international markets and Moscow aims to produce more than a billion doses at home and abroad next year, its financial backers and developers said on Tuesday, Reuters reported. The Sputnik vaccine, named after the Soviet-era satellite that triggered...
Russia’s Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov said during a working meeting with President Vladimir Putin on Monday that the country’s manufacturing industry grew by 2.6% in 2018, state-run news agency TASS reports. "Overall the results are positive in all sectors of industry. Manufacturing industry grew by 2.6%," he...
Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs is reportedly working toward implementing a new law that would allow law enforcement to seize Bitcoin and other digital assets, beginning in 2021, according to Russian news outlet RBC. Specifically, the new law would allow police to seize computers, hard drives or mobile devices containing...
Signals from the U.S. Federal Reserve that it was ready to cut interest rates to support the economy helped the Russian ruble hit a 10-month high on Thursday, according to Reuters. The currency opened 0.4% stronger at 63.51 to the dollar, its best performance since August 2018, and was unchanged...
Ozon's chief operating officer informed Reuters that the company aims to reach $34 billion in online transaction volumes in five years, accounting for a third of Russia's rapidly expanding e-commerce market. Ozon, one of Russia's largest e-commerce companies, reported triple-digit gross merchandise volume (GMV) growth for the sixth quarter in...
Rosneft is selling its three southern oil assets and could complete deals for all three by the end of May, sources told Reuters on Wednesday, as Russia’s top oil company shifts focus to the giant northern Vostok Oil project, Reuters reports. Vostok Oil, in which global commodities trader Trafigura has...
Russian airlines collectively served some 128.1 million passengers last year, a 10.2 per cent improvement on 2018, the preliminary operational results data by the country’s aviation authority Rosaviatsiya show, according to Izvestia. The results corresponds with the growth rate expectations of industry analysts. During the year, the industry’s RPKs increased...