Friday, August 14, 2026
Cryptocurrency futures exchange Kraken Futures, a trading platform for derivatives on digital assets, intends to grow its Russian presence with in-person visits and Russian-language social media groups, CoinDesk reported.  The regulated futures provider, acquired by San Francisco-based Kraken last year when it was called Crypto Facilities, brought on Russian expert...
Nearly five million square meters (sqm) of housing space was completed in Moscow in 2019, which is up by 40% year-on-year and represents the best result in 55 years, the Russian capital’s deputy mayor Marat Husnullin told Vedomosti. According to analysts and official data, Moscow’s real estate sector is coming...
Russian tech giant Yandex plans to expand its car-sharing offerings into Europe as other companies in the space retreat, according to a report by the Financial Times. The company will put 1,000 electric vehicles in an unspecified city in the EU, according to Anton Ryazanov, an executive at the company. Madrid...
A total of 477 million cubic meters (cm) of Russian gas were sold by Gazprom Export's Electronic Sales Platform (ESP) on Thursday – a new daily record high, S&P Global Platts reported. According to the company, sales on the ESP have soared since the start of 2020 as the Russian...
With a new runway operational and a gleaming international terminal opening this month, Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport has set an ambitious target to double traffic to 100 million passengers a year, OZY writes. Nearly half are set to come from routes that were until only recently an afterthought: connecting flights between...
The Syrian parliament has approved contracts for oil exploration with two Russian companies in an effort to boost production hit by more than eight years of war and Western sanctions, Oil & Gas Eurasia reports. Syria’s State news agency SANA said the deals between Damascus and Moscow cover exploration and...
Russian hackers instructed by the country’s military intelligence unit have targeted and successfully hacked into subsidiaries of Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings, the New York Times reports. The son of former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's son has served on the board of the Cyprus-based company, which is owned by...
The Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) has decided to temporarily ban the import of citrus from China after intercepting harmful organisms in shipments of these fruits, Retail.ru reports.  After issuing a warning to China on December 13, 2019, the watchdog made the measure effective on January...
Depressed consumer incomes will lead the Russian car market to more contraction this year, an executive of Russia’s largest carmaker Avtovaz has said, according to Rossiyskaya Gazeta. Avtovaz’s Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing Oliver Morne said on Monday that his company estimates Russia’s total sales of passenger and...
Russian diamond miner Alrosa does not want to follow its main rival De Beers and enter the lab-grown diamonds segment, despite its growing share in the global market, Asian Age reports. Alrosa finds that lab-grown diamonds can co-exist with natural diamonds if they are properly declared, the report says. The company accepts...