The United States, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates are possible alternative sources for oil supplies to Belarus amid a spat with Russia over supplies, President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday, according to Reuters.
Belarus and Russia failed to agree on an oil supply contract for this year, prompting...
Sheremetyevo Duty Free, the joint venture between Sheremetyevo Airport, Greenway and Gebr Heinemann, has opened a 3,000sq m walk through shop at the new Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport Terminal C. The partners have also opened a 500sq m arrivals shop in the terminal, which was inaugurated last Friday, The Moodie...
Turkey and Greece recently renewed a long-standing dispute over the balance of power in the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas despite the two countries being NATO allies, and Ankara is trying to draw Russia into the game as a possible ally, Kommersant writes.
The situation in the region is complicated by...
The 50th-anniversary edition of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos has concluded, with discussions about environmental degradation and climate change in the focus of the annual gathering of the world’s business elite, Izvestia writes.
Prior to and during the forum, held under the theme "Stakeholders for a Cohesive and...
A new high-speed railway between Moscow and Helsinki, allowing trains to travel the distance in six hours, is being considered by the Finnish government, RBC reported this week.
Ville Skinnari, Minister for Development and Foreign Trade of Finland, has recently visited Moscow and discussed the prospect of such an initiative at...
Russian energy giant Gazprom could return to the Eurobond market in February after risks related to its dispute with Ukraine are removed, Interfax news agency reported on Thursday, citing a source familiar with the matter.
Gazprom said late last year it had paid Ukraine $2.9 billion to settle a legal row, part of a...
Europe must show support for Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, since the United States would undermine Europe's transition to greener energy if its sanctions delayed the project, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund Kirill Dmitriev said on Thursday, according to TASS.
"We are not very happy with sanctions on...
The sister of newly-appointed Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Natalya Stenina, owns luxury real estate in and outside Moscow currently valued at 900 million rubles ($14.3 million), BBC Russia reported Thursday, citing a classified tax database.
Mishustin and his family were thrust into the spotlight after the former tax chief’s surprise...
Three former Russian bank owners were ordered by a London court Thursday to pay $900 million for siphoning money out and contributing to the collapse of domestic lender National Bank Trust five years ago, The Financial Times reports.
Тhe court decided that all three bankers were involved in a fraudulent scheme...
The first deputy CEO of Russia’s VTB Group told Interfax news agency on Thursday that they plan to attract one or more investors for the group’s grain business in February.
The state-controlled banking and financial services giant expanded dramatically in Russia’s grain export business last year, becoming the largest operator...
