Sunday, August 16, 2026
Russian hotels and restaurants do not have the right to refuse service to Chinese customers, or they can risk facing penalties, the Consumers Union of Russia has said, according to Izvestia.  The organization noted that the services of restaurants and hotels are public, which means that they are obliged to...
Russia’s biggest oil company Rosneft and the state-run Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) have agreed on deliveries of 40,000 barrels of crude per day to India via the port of Novorossiysk by the end of this year, ET Energy World reports. The deal was signed during Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin’s visit...
The risk that Russia will face a shortage of surgical masks amid the ongoing coronavirus epidemic is raising alarm bells with officials, and in order to prevent this, the Ministry of Industry and Trade is considering the possibility of curbing the export of face masks, Kommersant reports citing sources...
Russian company Medplant, a resident of the Moscow Special Economic Zone, has come up with a unique portable device that monitors the condition on artificial ventilation, TASS reports. The device can be used both in medical facilities and in the field, according to the Moscow Department of Investment and Industrial...
Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports through the port of Klaipeda pose a risk to the country's energy independence, Lithuanian intelligence warned on Tuesday, according to the Baltic Times. Despite being privately-owned, gas producer Novatek, which supplies LNG via the Klaipeda LNG terminal, is closely linked to the Kremlin and...
Russian state statistics data released on Monday shows that the pace of growth in the country’s economy slowed by almost half last year, RBC reported. State statistics agency Rosstat said Russia’s GDP grew by 1.3% in 2019. That compares with an official expansion rate of 2.5% recorded in 2018 and...
Already massive plans by the Russian government to invest in a major project to make the domestic feed industry more effective and efficient are likely to cost even more, All About Feed reports. In early November, the Russian Agricultural Ministry presented a new feed and feed additives development program, in...
State-run operator Russian Railways has suspended passenger traffic between Russia and North Korea because of the coronavirus outbreak, TASS reported.   In accordance with a message from the North Korean Ministry of Railways dated February 1, 2020 passenger railway traffic between Russia and North Korea through the Khasan-Tumangang checkpoint has been...
On January 31, 2020, as a part of the implementation of measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus, Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO) transferred all flights by Aeroflot, China Southern Airlines and Hainan Airlines, operated from 5 pm Moscow time on January 31, to destinations in China, from Terminals D and...
A Russian cruise line has will offer trips along the Northern Sea Route, a vast strip of the ocean in the Arctic Circle which has become navigable in recent years due to global warming, Port News reported last week. The company, Vodohod, has announced the cruises will be available from 2021. “We...