Sunday, August 16, 2026
The question of relations between Moscow and Minsk is "really very emotional," said Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Russian president, RIA Novosti reported. The Kremlin representative commented on the remarks of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, who, on the eve of the meeting with Vladimir Putin, said that "a certain moment...
Fresh out of the final decision to leave the European Union, the British government is looking to lift anti-dumping measures on Russian goods, imposed by the EU back in 2015, RIA Novosti reported. The UK Department for International Trade said in a statement published Thursday that it is going to...
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data published this week reveals that Russia is now the second-biggest oil exporter to the United States, with Russian supplies reaching an eight-year high in October, RBC reports.  Russia exported 20.9 million barrels of crude oil and petroleum products to the U.S. in October 2019,...
Russia’s largest retailers such as X5 Group and Magnit are looking for alternatives to Chinese food imports, The Bell reported. Russia this week suspended visa-free travel for Chinese tourists and imposed a case-by-case regime of granting working visas to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The Far East regions bordering China...
Russian concern Avtomatika (part of state-run tech conglomerate Rostec) has supplied the first batch of mobile systems providing protection from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Russian oil and gas companies, CNews.ru reports. "Some systems of identification of and resistance to drones have been provided for the fuel and energy complex....
After officially opening its brand new Terminal C1 last month, Sheremetyevo Airport’s next terminal will be built no earlier than 2026. The airport plans to increase the capacity up to 100 million passengers with its long-term development strategy, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC SIA, Alexander Ponomarenko,...
A little-known Russian aircraft parts company, Aviazapchast, is suing the political party led by French far-right politician Marine Le Pen to recover $10.8 million that was lent in 2014 to help fund election campaigns in France, Russian investigative website Open Media reported this week. The first hearing in the case is...
The head of Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) Alexander Neradko said in a statement on Wednesday that charter flights between Russia and China will be suspended on February 14, RIA Novosti reports. Since February 1, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency has curbed charter flights to China amid an outbreak...
Austria’s OMV, one of Gazprom’s five European partners in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, invested $124 million in the project in 2019, the company said in a report, according to TASS. "Cash flow from investing activities in 2019 included a cash outflow of $124 million related to the financing...
The first meeting of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia in 2020 will be held on Friday, converging with several atypical events in politics and economics at once, Vedomosti writes.  The onset of the coronavirus epidemic, the change of the Russian government and more spending on social...