The Russian ruble performed the best among the 15 emerging market currencies in 2019, appreciating on average by +11.6% against the other currencies in the basket, the latest edition of the Moodie Davitt SPEND Index has shown.
The Thai Baht was second with a +8.0% increase. Both the Russian Ruble...
Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said it was difficult to predict future fluctuations in the global oil market amid the escalation of tensions in the Middle East, RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday.
The minister, visiting Istanbul, said the OPEC+ group of oil producers always has an ability to meet, when asked...
The long-anticipated TurkStream offshore pipeline, that will deliver Russian gas to Turkey and further to southern European states, was launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a ceremony Wednesday, Izvestia reported.
Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic and Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissovalso participated in...
A senior U.S. official warned this week that the United States will “take action in response to growing Russian support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro,” S&P Global Platts reported.
“We are looking at additional sanctions, personal sanctions, economic sanctions that we think will bring more pressure,” Elliot Abrams, the State...
As governments across the world are urged to address the growing danger of global warming, the Russian leadership has come out with a "national adaptation plan" that puts a positive spin on climate change, CBS News writes.
In the document published on a government website last weekend, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev...
A new summer seasonal route between Riga and Russia’s Yekaterinburg will be launched by Latvian airline airBaltic on April 1, the company has announced, according to Travel Daily News.
According to airBaltic, the new connection will offer more convenient travel options for travelers from the Baltics and Russia to the airline’s network...
When Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Istanbul on Wednesday, he will be doing more than officially opening a new export pipeline -- he will be getting some more closure on his longstanding dream to end Moscow's dependence on Ukraine in getting natural gas to Europe, RFE/RL writes in an analysis...
Messenger service Telegram has warned its users not to be scammed by offers to buy the Gram token, a planned cryptocurrency on the high anticipated Telegram Open Network (TON) blockchain platform that the company is currently building.
The Russian-owned company raised $1.7 billion in the biggest ever ICO (Initial Coin Offering) in...
Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport has set an ambitious target to double traffic to 100 million passengers a year. The airport has a new runway operational, coupled with a gleaming new international terminal opening this month, The Financial Times reported.
Nearly half of the expected tourists are set to come from...
Russia's state-controlled Rosneft, co-owned by trader Glencore, is the only Russian supplier delivering oil to Belarus after the start of the new year, allowing the neighbor's refiners to continue processing modest volumes of crude, three industry sources told Reuters.
Deliveries of oil from Russia had been suspended since Jan. 1...
