Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Spain has reopened a criminal case against Kremlin-linked billionaire Mikhail Fridman over his alleged role in the deliberate bankruptcy of a Spanish tech firm, Deutsche Welle reported Wednesday. Spain’s National Court first opened a case against the tycoon in 2019, with prosecutors accusing Fridman of market manipulation, fraudulent insolvency, business...
The price of futures contracts of Brent crude oil for April 2021 on London’s ICE went up by 1.2%, reaching $65.12 per barrel, according to the trading data as of 04:01 Moscow time. This is the first time the price of Brent has surpassed $65 per barrel since January 2020,...
Russia’s Yandex, which on Tuesday reported a 2% rise in 2020 net profit, plans to spend $400 million-$500 million on an e-commerce push this year to help annual revenue reach 305-320 billion rubles ($4.1-4.3 billion), its finance chief said, Reuters reported. Yandex’s core advertising business took a hit during the...
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, India and Russia have sustained the momentum of the Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership between the two countries, Sputnik. The two countries lined up a series of high level visits including those of an armed forces chief to finalise the agenda of the bilateral annual...
Russian retail investment into stocks and bonds has finally taken off after decades of effort by the financial authorities. In 2020 retail investors put 638bn rubles ($8.6bn) into foreign stocks and bonds, according to the Central Bank of Russia, bne IntelliNews reports. Russians have been moving money out of their...
Two large amphibious assault ships of the improved Project 11711 currently under construction at the Yantar Shipyard on the Baltic coast will displace 40% more tonnes compared to standard warships of this class, Shipyard CEO Ilya Samarin told TASS on Wednesday. "Standard ships displace about 6,000 tonnes whereas upgraded...
Moscow said on Wednesday it had denied a visa for a candidate to head the mission of U.S. space agency NASA in Russia, in what it described as retaliation for the U.S. denial of a visa to an undisclosed Russian official, Reuters reported. Russia did not identify the U.S. official...
Less than a month after a senior politician in Paris asked Germany to put a stop to the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline, energy giant Gazprom has revealed that France has bought 43 percent more Russian gas so far this year, RT reported. The latest financial report from the country’s...
An AI-based system for analyzing endoscopic tests started to be tested in Moscow at the premises of the S. P. Botkin Moscow City Clinical Hospital, ICT Moscow reported. Computer vision system studies the image obtained with the help of an endoscope and highlights the pathology in real time, focusing the...
The RA3 certificate (Regulated Agent Third Country) confirms that the terminal of Moscow Cargo LLC fully complies with all aviation security requirements established by the European Union for cargo and mail destined for or traveling through the EU countries from the territory of non-EU countries (Implementing Regulation (EU )...