Monday, August 10, 2026
Global crude prices continued their slide on Monday, after Brent blend had its steepest decline last week since April. Concerns are growing that new lockdowns could hit the global demand for fuel, RT reported. Brent dropped as much as 4.6 percent, to $35.74 a barrel, hitting its lowest level since...
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin discussed the Nagorno-Karabakh military conflict in phone calls with Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Nov. 1 and with Azeri President Ilham Aliyev on Nov. 2, the Kremlin said on Monday, as reported by Reuters. “The issues of settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict have been discussed in...
Russian online retailer Ozon said on Tuesday it had filed for an initial public offering of its American Depositary Shares (ADSs) with U.S. regulators, Reuters reported. The e-commerce firm intends to list the depositary shares the on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. The proposed maximum size of the offering is...
Russia’s coronavirus cases grew by 18,648 in the past 24 hours reaching 1,673,686, the anti-coronavirus crisis center told reporters on Tuesday, TASS reported. According to the crisis center, the growth rate has stood at 1.1% for two days. The lowest growth rates were recorded in Chechnya, Tatarstan and Dagestan (0.5% each),...
A 5G Demo Center was launched in the Smart City pavilion at VDNH for testing and supporting urban services based on 5th generation communications. The priority industries for the testing of 5G-based services are transport, medicine, urban safety and education, ICT Moscow reports. MTS is the partner of the Moscow...
Last month, the Polish anti-monopoly authority UOKiK ruled that a fine of about 6.5 billion euros be imposed on Gazprom over the project, accusing Gazprom and its European partners of failing to notify Warsaw about the start of a joint venture for the pipeline's construction. The Austrian oil and gas...
U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and his wife are applying for Russian citizenship in order not to be separated from their future son in an era of pandemics and closed borders, Reuters reported. Snowden’s wife, Lindsay, is expecting a child in late December, the RIA news agency cited Anatoly Kucherena, his...
Russian drugmaker Pharmasyntez has asked the Kremlin to allow it to produce a generic version of U.S. COVID-19 drug remdesivir, used to treat U.S. President Donald Trump, despite lacking a patent to do so, the firm’s director said on Monday, as reported by Reuters. Remdesivir is not available in Russia,...
Russian carrier Rossiya has established a new flight unit which will second pilots from parent Aeroflot Group to operate Sukhoi Superjet 100s on its network, Flight Global reported. Rossiya uses a mix of Boeing 747s and 777s for its long-haul services, as well as Boeing 737s and Airbus A320-family jets...
Any activity posing a threat to the security of Russian and foreign citizens and diplomatic missions is unacceptable, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday, TASS reported. "Ensuring the security of diplomatic missions of other states, namely France in this case, is of the utmost importance to us, along...