Friday, August 14, 2026
After a month-long disruption due to the yearly quota limit, Turkish tomato exports to Russia have resumed on March 7, Hurriyet reported. Moscow recently decided to lift the yearly quote for Turkish tomato imports from 150,000 tons to 200,000 tons after some containers carrying Turkish tomatoes were returned last month, saying that...
The fall in the value of ruble is sure to bring higher prices of consumer goods, leaving Russians to prepare for higher inflation, the Moscow Times reports. The Bank of Russia was forced to halt planned interest rate cuts, as a period of muted price rises comes to an end. The...
Sheremetyevo was the best large airport in Europe in 2019, according to a survey by the Airport Council International's (ACI) Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Programme. This is the second consecutive year that Sheremetyevo has led the survey in the category of airports serving more than 40 million passengers per...
Russian nickel and palladium giant Nornickel has signed a partnership deal with Finland’s Fortum and Germany’s BASF to plan an electric car battery recycling cluster in Harjavalta, Finland, AMM.com reported. The idea is to develop a successful “closed loop” cycle to re-use the critical metals (like cobalt and nickel) present in used lithium-ion...
A 19.5% increase in smartphone sales in Russia was registered in January 2020 compared to the same month last year, Vedomosti reports citing data provided by a partner company of several electronics manufacturers. According to the data, more than 3 million smartphones were sold in Russia in January this year. The sales...
Steep slides on the market mean that the Bank of Russia is set to receive much less from the sale of its stake in Sberbank than expected, and it even may force the regulator to push the deal to next year if oil prices fall too far, senior Russian officials said...
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unexpectedly visited the State Duma (lower house of parliament) on Tuesday during the second reading of the presidential amendments to the Constitution, Vedomosti reported. Addressing lawmakers, Putin said there would be no snap parliamentary elections and that "resetting" the number of presidential terms to zero was feasible,...
Having both felt the lash of U.S. sanctions, Chinese tech giant Huawei and the Russian government are teaming up in a partnership to play up their resistance to such threats, The Nikkei Asian Review writes. The Kremlin has been trying to insulate the country from having to rely on Western technological infrastructure, but...
An ex-policeman on trial for wrongfully detaining an investigative journalist said this week that Russian tech giant Yandex’s taxi service shares passengers’ ride history with law enforcement authorities, Coda Story reports. Igor Lyakhovets was among the several police officers who had arrested journalist Ivan Golunov on drug charges in June...
Russia’s biggest oil company, state-run Rosneft, plans to up oil production as soon as the current OPEC+ deal ends, a person close to the company told Bloomberg. The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Rosneft had prepared for any scenario and would be able to withstand the...