The Russian Finance Ministry said on Monday it had informed Luxembourg and Malta of increasing to 15 percent the tax on dividend and interest income derived from Russia, TASS reported.
"The Russian Finance Ministry has sent letters to the finance ministries of Luxembourg and Malta on introducing changes into the...
A symbolic cargo of Russian wheat has set sail for Saudi Arabia from a Black Sea port seven months after conditions were set to allow the trade, sources told Reuters on Thursday.
Russia's agriculture safety watchdog, Rosselkhoznadzor, confirmed the 60,000-ton cargo had departed.
The world's largest wheat exporter had long sought...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked the government to consider the possibility of supporting online food delivery services, including partial subsidizing of such delivery cost during the coronavirus pandemic period, TASS reports.
The relevant point is contained in the list of assignments of the head of state posted on the...
Prices for wheat exports from Russia jumped last week due to limits on shipments imposed by Romania, Ukraine, and Moscow itself, and as the ruble strengthened against the dollar, analysts told Reuters on Monday.
Last week, Romania banned grain exports to non-European Union destinations until mid-May to cover its domestic...
Just days after he was appointed as acting editor-in-chief of Russian business newspaper Vedomosti, Andrey Shmarov has intervened to remove an op-ed by columnist Konstantin Sonin titled, “A Hard Time of Responsibility,” criticizing Rosneft CEO and Putin ally Igor Sechin, The Bell reports.
The article was initially published around 10...
The head of Russia’s Audit Chamber Alexei Kudrin said that the number of unemployed in Russia could temporarily increase from 2.5 million to 8 million people due to coronavirus outbreak, TASS reported.
"According to the forecast for this crisis, which has now started in Russia, the number of unemployed for...
Leading Russian food retailer X5 Retail Group has begun installing self-checkout (SCO) machines developed in-house at its Pyaterochka proximity stores to help with Russia’s social distancing efforts, the company said in a statement, according to bne Intellinews.
“Through the mass implementation of self-service technologies, X5 seeks to minimize contact between...
OPEC, Russia, and other oil-producing countries have finalized an agreement on the biggest oil production cut to date in the hope of bolstering global prices that have collapsed due to the coronavirus pandemic and a price war, Reuters reports.
OPEC+, a group of 23 oil-producing countries that includes Russia, said...
Chinese cities near the border with Russia said on Sunday they would tighten border controls and quarantine measures on arrivals from abroad after the number of imported coronavirus cases hit a record high, Bloomberg Quint reports.
New daily confirmed cases in mainland China reached 99 on April 11, almost doubling...
Domestic technical solutions are proving to be very efficient, Sheremetyevo Airport’s security systems showed. According to the airport’s security officials, most of the logistics were changed ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup that took place in the country, and passengers are now seeing the benefits of those efforts.
“I...
