The Russian government discussed a proposal to cut borrowing this year by RUB0.5-1 trillion ($6.8bn-13.5bn) due to fears of more U.S. sanctions being imposed that could target sovereign debt, Bloomberg reported on March 3, bne IntelliNews reports.
Russia hiked borrowing via the Russian Ministry of Finance ruble-denominated OFZ treasury bills...
Slovakia has found itself in a diplomatic row after its prime minister made an offhand joke about paying for Russian coronavirus vaccine shipments with Ukrainian territory, The Moscow Times reports.
Kiev demanded an apology after Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovič said in a radio interview Wednesday that he promised Russia...
The European Union’s internal processes have put progress in easing EU visa requirements for Russian youth out of reach for the time being, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an interview with the Govorit Moskva radio station on Thursday, TASS reports.
" have closed their borders, and they...
Russia’s Federal Security Service said on Thursday it had thwarted a planned “terror” attack on a power site in Kaliningrad region and that it had arrested a suspect, the Interfax news agency reported.
The report said the FSB had seized a home-made bomb and that the alleged attacker had been...
Russian energy giant Gazprom said it exported 7 million tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in 2020, and is planning to double annual sales by 2025, Pavel Sedov, the head of LNG exports at Gazprom Export, said, RT reported.
Sedov added that Gazprom is still a rather small LNG enterprise,...
Cooperation between Russia and Iraq in the oil sector is “very active” in spite of all the restrictions and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, RT reported.
Novak, who previously served as Russia’s energy minister, met on Wednesday with Iraqi Oil Minister...
Russia’s capital has ranked first in Europe in terms of hotel occupancy rate since November 2020, the country’s Vedomosti newspaper announced on Wednesday referring to the Cushman & Wakefield international consulting company’s report, TASS writes.
According to the newspaper, Moscow hotels were filled by 39% in November, while in Istanbul,...
The latest sanctions by the United States and the European Union against Russian individuals and organizations are intervention in Russia’s internal affairs, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the media on Wednesday, adding that such restrictions were unacceptable, TASS reported.
"We regard any such restrictions as absolutely unacceptable," Peskov said....
Non-renewable energy was used to move frozen wind turbines back online in Texas during last month’s deep freeze, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday, The Moscow Times reports.
An unprecedented winter storm in the southern U.S. state knocked out half of its wind power as well as natural gas and...
Moscow expects that the European Union’s plans to introduce coronavirus vaccine passports won’t discriminate against Russian nationals, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference on Tuesday, TASS reported.
"At our level, we informed our colleagues in the European Union that we expected them to make decisions that...
