Russia’s national payment system Mir has conducted its first test transactions with Mir cards in Dubai. The Network International group of companies, which provides services in the e-commerce market in the Middle East and Africa, acts as the local partner of Mir in the UAE, the press service of...
The world’s top cryptocurrency, bitcoin, continued to rally on Tuesday, pushing above $49,000 during early trading. The rally comes as the Chinese government plans to ban crypto mining in the country, RT reported.
The Chinese northern region of Inner Mongolia, the global crypto mining hotspot, is banning cryptocurrency mining. Regional...
Sheremetyevo International Airport was recognized as the best airport for service quality in 2020 among airports with 2019 passenger traffic of more than 40 million by the Airports Council International's (ACI) global program for researching the level of service at airports Airport Service Quality (ASQ).
Sheremetyevo Airport has been...
Russia’s manufacturing sector in February saw its fastest growth since April 2019. The expansion was underpinned by robust output and new order growth, according to survey data published by IHS Markit on Monday, RT writes.
The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for the sector grew to 51.5 in February against January’s...
Russia’s energy major Gazprom said on Monday that it had pumped more gas to China in February via the Power of Siberia pipeline than it had initially planned, more than tripling supplies compared to the same month last year, RT informed.
“The export of gas to China through the Power...
The IHS Markit Russia Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) - a composite single-figure snapshot of the performance of the country's manufacturing economy rose to 51.5 points in February 2021 from 50.9 points in January 2020, TASS reports citing IHS Markit analytical agency.
"Contributing to the overall expansion was a faster...
Nearly two out of three Russians believe the conspiracy theory that the coronavirus is a bioweapon created by humans, a survey by the independent Levada Center polling agency said Monday.
According to Levada’s results, 64% of Russian respondents said Covid-19 was artificially created as a new form of biological weapon....
The United States authorities are not holding consultations with Germany with the aim of reaching an informal agreement that would allow the completion of the Nord Stream 2 project, the Axios portal reported on Saturday. American diplomats made this statement during a special telephone briefing for representatives of the...
Czech Republic counts on supplies of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus in the near future. The country’s President Milos Zeman told the local CNN Prima on Saturday that he had sent a letter to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin with a request to deliver the vaccine to the...
