Russia’s Business Ombudsman Boris Titov said during an online conference on Wednesday he expects consumer demand in Russia to decline 10-15% in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, TASS reports.
"We expect that countrywide real wages will fall. This applies primarily to the private sector, but also in the segment...
The maiden shipment of Coco Daily organic coconut milk produced by Philippine company Cenagri, has arrived in St. Petersburg to cater to mainstream Russian consumers this spring, The Manila Bulletin reported.
Russian importer PanAsiaImpex announced that the maiden shipment of Philippine brand Coco Daily organic coconut milk arrived at the...
As Russians across the country are staying home under coronavirus lockdown measures, Ural Airlines has launched a special service for those who are sick and tired of all those home-cooked meals — or just really miss traveling, The Moscow Times writes.
Residents of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Ural Airlines’ home...
A gauge of Russian manufacturing slumped to the lowest level since records began in 1997 as coronavirus lockdowns across Europe choked demand. The Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index fell to 31.3 in April, down from 47.5 in March, IHS Markit said on Thursday. The median estimate of eight economists surveyed...
Nurses have quit en masse from Russia’s top coronavirus hospital in Moscow over poor working conditions and low wages, investigative news website Open Media reported Monday.
A former nurse who said she quit the Kommunarka hospital after almost two months told the outlet that more than a dozen nursing staff had left...
Russian state bank Vnesheconombank (VEB) last week announced the acquisition of 77.63% of the shares of the professional football club CSKA Moscow. According to a VEB statement, the operation was carried out by exchanging the debt that the club had with the bank for the share package, Sports Finding...
Sheremetyevo International Airport has been named Airport of the Year in the annual Wings of Russia National Aviation Awards program for the second year in a row, Yahoo Finance reported.
The Wings of Russia National Aviation Award named after Evgeny Chibirev was established in 1997 by the Association of Air...
Russia’s flag carrier Aeroflot is planning to operate around 1,000 weekly flights (500 rotations) in May – all from Moscow – to 56 cities around Russia, the company has announced, according to Russian Aviation Insider. This is twice as many as in April although, before the Coronavirus crisis, the...
Gas workers in Russia’s Far East staged a mass rally to demand better working conditions and more transparency amid a reported coronavirus outbreak at their gas field, local media in Yakutia reported Tuesday.
Footage from the Russian energy giant’s Chayanda field, which supplies China with natural gas through the recently launched Power of...
Russian authorities reported on Wednesday 108 more coronavirus-related deaths, the highest daily figure since the beginning of the outbreak in the country, TASS reports.
The death toll stands at 972, the emergency team said in a statement, while 5,841 people tested positive for COVID-19 over the last 24 hours, taking...
