Aleksei Burkov, a Russian cybercriminal once described as part of the hacking “elite” and “an asset of supreme importance” to Moscow, has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to running a site that sold stolen payment card data, Engadget reports.
He also pleaded guilty to administering a highly secretive crime...
Sheremetyevo’s new international Terminal C, with an annual of 20 million is one of the biggest international terminals in Europe. The complex comprises the main building, a control tower and a parking space for up to 2,500 vehicles, Big Time Moscow writes.
According to the Chairman of the Board of...
Russian state-run energy giant Gazprom has supplied the first billion cubic meters of natural gas over the TurkStream gas pipeline, the company said on Monday, according to Vedomosti.
"About 54% of this volume were delivered to the Turkish gas market and around 46% — to the Turkish-Bulgarian border," the company says.
Commercial deliveries...
Russian tour operators have put group tours from China on hold as the country is fighting the outbreak of the coronavirus, the Russian Union of Travel Industry said in a statement, adding that Monday, January 27, has become the last day Russia accepted Chinese tourist groups, Radio Liberty reports.
"The Chinese...
Russia's largest technology company, Yandex, is getting groceries to Moscow homes within a quarter of an hour, free of charge, with its new online service Lavka, Bloomberg reports.
The company has spread small warehouses across the capital stocked with about 2,000 items and uses bike couriers to deliver orders. Its...
Oil exports from Russia’s Pacific port of Kozmino increased by 9.2% last year to a record high of 33.2 million tons, the port’s operator, pipeline monopoly Transneft said on Monday, according to Reuters.
Kozmino is part of Russia’s plans to forge closer ties with the Asia Pacific region. The port,...
Russian payday loan business Zaim Credits Systems expects increased lending volumes and better credit scoring to materially boost its performance in the current year, the company said this month, according to Proactive Investors.
The firm, which styles itself as a micro-finance/fintech company, has 300,000 customers who borrow an average of...
Controversial Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has said his country seeks to further boost its alliances with Russia and China, particularly on trade and commerce, CNN reports.
“And the economics, I’m veering towards so many… I’d like to open new fronts with Russia (and) with China,” Duterte said in an interview with Kremlin...
Works have begun on the construction of a new highway in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan, with Turkish company Limak undertaking the $538 million project together with local construction firm Marashstroy, RBC reported.
The Ufa Eastern Output, a link between Russia’s M5 and M7 federal highways, will start the projects defined...
