Sunday, August 16, 2026
A Russian court on Thursday fined social media companies Twitter and Facebook 4 million rubles ($62,845) each for their failure to comply with a Russian data law, TASS reported. The Tagansky District Court in Moscow fined Facebook for its refusal to put its server holding data about Russian citizens on...
Kazakhstan’s Energy Minister Nurlan Nogaev has suggested considering the opportunity of laying pipes for Gazprom’s Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline mega-project over the territory of the country with a further connection to the West-East gas pipeline system of China, TASS reports. According to Serikzhan Ermantaev, a spokesman at the...
Sheremetyevo International Airport won the Russian Air Gate 2020 National Award in the Best Airport by Journalists' Vote category. It also came out on top in the Inauguration of the Year category for commissioning the third independent runway, the airport’s press service said. The award ceremony was held as part...
The coronavirus outbreak in China may cause garlic shortages in Russia, according to experts from Rosselkhozbank’s Center for Industry Expertise, Fresh Plaza writes. The new report says that because of the epidemic, Russian retail chains are starting to replace Chinese food products. According to Vedomosti, the top 5 Russian imports from...
Russian president Vladimir Putin noted positive trends in Russia’s economic indicators and instructed the government to launch a new investment cycle, which will help the national economy grow above the global average, TASS reports. "Our common main task is to make economic growth more solid, high-quality and sustainable, taking into...
South African wine companies are interested in expanding into the Russian market and a few of them are making inroads at the Prodexpo international trade show currently underway in Russia, Devdiscourse reports. Prodexpo is the largest international show for the food and drinks sector in Russia and Eastern Europe. Wahed Khan, the...
Russia's sovereign wealth fund RDIF said on Wednesday that Russian and Saudi companies have held discussions on possible joint projects as well as potential investment worth more than $10 billion, Investing.com reported. The discussions took place in Saudi Arabia as Russia and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)...
А delegation of managers and specialists from Sheremetyevo International Airport participated in the business section of the NAIS 2020 forum. At the Effective Strategies for the Development and Management of Airports conference, Andrey Nikulin, First Deputy General Director for Production at SIA JSC, gave an extensive presentation on modern...
UAE-based hotel group TIME hotels is targeting investment opportunities in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan as part of its international expansion prospects, ETurbonews.com reports. The group’s CEO, Mohamed Awadalla, was invited by the State Committee on Tourism of the Republic of Tatarstan to discuss potential hospitality investments in Tatarstan’s capital city of...
The head of Russia’s oil giant Rosneft, Igor Sechin, said on Tuesday the company’s Vostok Oil mega-project in the Arctic will boost the nation’s oil production and accelerate the country’s GDP growth, RBC reported. Meeting with President Vladimir Putin, Rosneft chief executive Igor Sechin said that Vostok Oil, the company’s project...