Moscow on Thursday said it would reopen schools and universities next week, in the latest lifting of coronavirus restrictions as the number of new daily infections in the Russian capital fell to 56, Reuters reported.
Moscow, which has overall recorded more than 227,000 cases of the virus, last month lifted...
Investors and analysts are trying to assess the prospects of the oil market, which was hit hard this year due to the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, as a result of which the price of WTI crude oil fell to negative values in April, Interfax reported.
Some experts believe...
Russian-flagged pipelayer Fortuna has departed from the German port of Mukran and entered Danish waters, shortly after Copenhagen expanded the list of ships allowed to participate in construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, Russia Today reported.
Data from vessel tracking websites showed that Fortuna was sailing in Danish...
Russia has approved a new antiviral drug, Coronavir, to treat COVID-19 patients, its developer R-Pharm said on Wednesday, as Russia’s tally of infections hit 700,000, Reuters reported.
It said a clinical trial involving mild or medium-level cases had shown the drug to be highly effective in inhibiting replication of the...
Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) is disputing more than $2 billion in damages after a fuel spill which Russia’s environmental watchdog has said threatens unprecedented damage to the Arctic, Reuters reports.
Watchdog Rosprirodnadzor sent a request for “voluntary compensation” of almost 148 billion roubles ($2.1 billion) to Nornickel power...
Sheremetyevo International Airport's international terminal—Terminal D—will resume full operations at 00:00 Moscow time on July 27, 2020.
The trains of the inter-terminal crossing (ITC) of Sheremetyevo Airport will resume operations on July 15 to shuttle passengers, employees and visitors throughout the airport complex.
Sheremetyevo Airport is resuming international air travel with...
The growth in non-performing loans and loans restructuring in the Russian banking sector is expected to fall in June, Elizaveta Danilova, head of the Central Bank’s financial stability department said on Wednesday, Reuters reports.
Danilova said that banks’ capital provisions for unsecured consumer loans, valued at 584 billion roubles ($8.2...
The Russian military will get the new-generation S-500 air defense systems in coming years, the commander of Missile Defense Troops of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Maj. Gen. Sergei Babakov, said in an interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper on Wednesday, TASS reported.
"The Missile Defense Troops started receiving prospective S-350...
Wild boars have been spotted in some Moscow parks, the official website of the capital’s mayor reported Sunday, as cited by The Moscow Times.
While the advisory note said the beasts would not attack a person for no reason they warned that the animals are dangerous and capable of causing...
According to Fedresurs estimates, for the first half of 2020, the number of bankruptcies of companies decreased by 26% and amounted to 4,500 legal entities against 6,100 in the same period in 2019. The opposite trend is observed in cases of bankruptcy of citizens. For six months of 2020,...
