Thursday, June 19, 2025
According to Navalny's allies, Apple and Google removed imprisoned Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny's applications from their internet stores after Russian authorities threatened their workers with jail time, Moscow Times writes. The decision comes as parliamentary elections begin, overshadowed by an unprecedented assault on the opposition. During the September 17-19 election, the...
Deputy Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Moiseev said that there are several areas in Russia where regulation is excessive, with digital currencies in the first place. The deputy head of the department noted that digital rubles are electronic cash and that they should be treated like money that is...
Russia has the world's largest gas reserves, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said at the International Business Congress. "Gas reserves in Russia, Gazprom's gas reserves are the largest in the world. And we will not experience problems with our reserves for the next hundred years," Miller said. Some of the fields that...
In July 2021, Russia held $4.006 billion in Treasury bonds of the US Treasury, including long-term government securities - $305 million, and short-term - $ 3.701 billion, according to the US Treasury. Russian investments in UST fell in April 2018 from $96.1 billion to $48.7 billion amid tough anti-Russian sanctions....
Sheremetyevo Airport took first place in the rating of the British agency OAG, the press service of the airport said, Russian media reported. The reputable British agency OAG, which specializes in organizing and analyzing flight data, has presented a rating of the best air harbors and airlines in the world...
Currently, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation is developing two versions of a stress test to assess the risks to the Russian economy due to the energy transition for the period up to 2030 and until 2050, said Ksenia Yudaeva, First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of...
The Ministry of Finance proposed to change taxation for metallurgical companies and fertilizer producers, Russian media reported. In particular, the Ministry of Finance proposes to raise the MET rate to 6%, to abandon the use of the rental coefficient, and to calculate the MET based not on the costs of...
The Russian Grain Union (RGS) has raised its forecast for grain harvest in Russia this year from 118 million to 119.5 million tons, said Elena Tyurina, head of the RZS analytical department. "The main factor for the increase is the narrowing of the gap in yields compared to last year....
President Vladimir Putin encouraged Russians on Thursday to vote in parliamentary elections later this week, in which the most outspoken Kremlin opponents are banned from participating, Moscow Times writes. "I rely on your responsible, balanced, patriotic civic stance," Putin said in a video message posted on the Kremlin website tonight. After...
"7745 Everything for Construction," a major Belarussian supplier of construction and repair products, has joined the Russian market. According to Kommersant, the first hypermarket in Moscow was established on the Simferopol highway, approximately 10 kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road, over an area of 4.2 thousand square meters. Tools, gardening...