Russian internet giant Yandex has launched a free coronavirus testing service for the Moscow Region, heavily affected by the outbreak, Reuters reported.
Russia already boasts of one of the world's highest testing rates.The case numbers have spiked sharply in recent weeks, quadrupling over the past 10 days to propel Russia...
Russia’s leading business newspaper Vedomosti is at the center of another censorship-related controversy, with the new chief editor now banning employees from criticizing President Vladimir Putin’s proposed constitutional changes, The Moscow Times reports.
Andrei Shmarov, who was named acting editor-in-chief by Vedomosti’s new owners in March, made news earlier this...
Russia’s deepening economic crisis, caused by the coronavirus pandemic and a shap drop in oil prices, could spill into some of the most remittance-dependent economies in the world, Bloomberg wrote last week.
Migrant workers from the former-Soviet Union send $13 billion home each year from Russia, where they are allowed...
Falling demand amid the COVID-19 crisis has taken a hit on car sales in Russia, which may drop up to 50% due to the pandemic, and the risks of massive layoffs at assembly and auxiliary enterprises is growing, Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes.
According to data provided by Boston Consulting Group, the...
The Russian Far East Kamchatka Peninsula prepares new tourist programs and routes to attract visitors not only during the summer season but also in autumn, the region’s head of the tourism agency Elena Tratonova told TASS.
In 2019, Kamchatka welcomed more than 240,000 tourists (a growth by 26,000 year-on-year). The...
A majority of Russians in a recent poll have said they want to change their current jobs, some plan to find a more promising vacancy, while others fear the difficulties that their employer is experiencing during the quarantine, employment service Rabota.ru said on Tuesday, according to New Retail.
The website...
Finnish industrial machinery company Metso has won a contract for the supply of SAG and ball mill linings for the upcoming facilities of Russian Copper Company’s (RCC) Tominsky Processing Plant, IM-Mining reports.
The deal complements two earlier mill lining contracts for RCC’s Mikheevsky Processing Plant, signed in December 2019.
With a...
Russian small and medium-sized businesses have borrowed a total of around $4 billion rubles ($51.6 million) from banks in interest-free loans intended to support employment amid the coronavirus crisis, the Ministry of Economic Development said Wednesday, according to Kommersant.
"According to monitoring data for 15 banks that have signed an...
The head of Sberbank, Herman Gref, said in an interview on Tuesday that he doesn’t expect Russian banks to be seriously affected by the coronavirus lockdowns.
The CEO of the country’s biggest lender added, however, that Russia’s economy is expected to contract progressively, with stress tests by Sberbank showing GDP...
