The number of officially registered unemployed in the Russian Federation since April 1 has increased by 3.5 times, but there is no need to talk about the explosive increase in unemployment, said Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Interfax reports.
"Our first priority is the fight against unemployment," he said at...
Russia has not been informed of any emergency situation in regard to the nuclear particles detected over the Baltic Sea, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, Reuters reports.
“We have an absolutely advanced radiation levels safety monitoring system and there are no emergency alarms,” Peskov told reporters. “We...
A Russian mining giant behind an enormous Arctic fuel spill last month said Sunday it had suspended workers at a metals plant who were responsible for pumping wastewater into nearby tundra, The Moscow Times reported.
Norilsk Nickel cited a "flagrant violation of operating rules" in a statement announcing it had...
A new program of flights to popular seasonal resorts has begun at Sheremetyevo International Airport. Flights will be operated by Rossiya Airlines in partnership with the travel operator Biblio-Globus as part of an updated flight program.
The opening of the new flight program was made possible by the lifting of...
Russia will hike taxes for the country’s top earners from next year, President Vladimir Putin announced in a speech to the nation Tuesday afternoon, The Moscow Times reported.
In a lengthy address in which Putin discussed Russia’s fight with the coronavirus and hailed the success of the country’s health system...
Global retail giant Amazon and Japanese SoftBank have made approaches to Russian conglomerate Sistema about a possible acquisition of its online retailer Ozon, Sistema’s majority owner Vladimir Evtushenkov said on Saturday, Reuters reported.
It’s not immediately clear if talks are still underway or have ended. Sistema has said it was looking...
The shareholders of PJSC AFK Sistema at the annual meeting approved the corporation’s board of directors in an updated composition, expanding it from 11 to 12 people, said Andrei Dubovskov, deputy chairman of the corporation’s board of directors, Interfax reported.
The board of directors of Sistema includes Vladimir Chirakhov, the...
Russia on Saturday reported 6,852 new coronavirus cases, a figure that keeps the daily rise below 7,000 for the second day in a row for the first time since late April. The new cases take the cumulative nationwide tally to 627,646.
The country’s coronavirus response center said 188 people had...
Toxic fuel from a massive leak in Siberia may have already reached the Arctic Ocean despite officials' claims of successful cleanup efforts, a Russian environmental activist said as he called on the international community to declare the accident a global disaster, The Moscow Times reported.
More than 21,000 metric tons of diesel...
Russian experts have conducted over 18.1 mln COVID-19 tests already, the press service of the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor) reported on Thursday, TASS reported.
"As of June 24, 2020, 18,115,830 laboratory tests were carried out for the novel coronavirus on material taken...
