Russia's winter grain crop is in unusually good shape with only 5.7% classed as in bad condition, Roman Nekrasov, an agriculture ministry official said Thursday, according to Interfax.
The Russian winter has been unusually warm and dry this year, with Muscovites complaining there has been no snow at all.
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The Russian Investigative Committee has asked Moscow’s Basmanny Court to arrest well-known businessman Boris Mints in absentia after he was accused of embezzlement, the court’s spokeswoman Irina Morozova told Vedomosti.
She added that the businessman had been put on the international wanted list.
Mints and his three sons left Russia for...
The spreading coronavirus in China poses a threat to Russian exporters of foodstuffs to the country, Kommersant writes.
China has stopped several batches of Russian fish products and halted talks on new contracts while falling consumer demand has cut prices on poultry 10-15%. Market participants have not yet adjusted their...
State-run operator Russian Railways has canceled its order on termination of cargo service with China from Friday, Vedomosti reported.
"In connection with the clarifications received (order by the Transport Ministry dated January 25, 2020), operational order 89 dated January 30, 2020, is canceled," according to the new order, signed by...
Russia is counting on the resolution of problems related to the quality of bananas shipped from Ecuador, Alexander Shchetinin, head of the Latin American department at Russia’s Foreign Ministry, told TASS.
He noted the relevant departments are discussing the deliveries of Ecuadorian bananas and there is not any political context...
Leading Russian fertilizer company PhosAgro was in Berlin earlier this month to attend the Green Week and promote its ecologically friendly fertilizers as Russian corporates increasingly embrace the need to build sustainable businesses, bne Intellinews writes.
“Green Week is a unique opportunity for Russian managers to show off what they have...
Swiss-based ProtonMail has been blocked by the Russian government in efforts to halt a prolonged series of anonymous bomb threats, Russia’s telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor said Wednesday, according to Silver.ru.
The FSB security service said Russia acted against Geneva-based ProtonMail after blocking another social network, Netherlands-based Smartmail, for the same reason...
Moscow has been quietly switching on a massive surveillance project this month, built on tens of thousands of cameras and a cutting-edge facial recognition system from the makers of popular app FindFace, according to Forbes.
The software is a product of NtechLab, a company that some reports claimed would bring...
Alexander Fridman, the 19-year-old son of billionaire Russian investor Mikhail Friedman, rents a $500 a month apartment on the outskirts of Moscow and uses the city's high tech subway system to get to work, Bloomberg reported.
Alexander decided to try his hand at entrepreneurship over attending college, telling the news...
Russia’s flag carrier Aeroflot has taken delivery of five more government-subsidized Superjet 100 regional jets, bringing its fleet of the type to 54 units and its combined capacity offering to 4,700 passenger seats, Rusaviainsider.com reports.
SSJ-100 is produced by Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Corporation (SCAC). All of the five new SSJ-100s were produced...
