Russia plans to create a special stock exchange where companies targeted by Western sanctions will have an opportunity to list their bonds, Krasnaya Vesna news agency reported.
Russia's Deputy Finance Minister Alexey Moiseev said the launch was initially scheduled for December but was then postponed to January as the ministry...
The leaders of Russia and Belarus, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko discussed the topic of oil and gas supplies to Belarus in a telephone conversation on Tuesday, BelTA news agency reports, citing the press service of the Belarusian president.
"Further to and in development of yesterday’s conversation, heads of state...
The Kremlin’s main accomplishment of 2019 is reversing the negative trend of Russians’ falling living standards, presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, according to Kommersant.
"For objective reasons, Russians’ living standards were either stagnating or falling. This negative trend was observed over the past three or four years," he...
The vice president of the European Commission Maros Sefcovic has welcomed the conclusion of Ukraine-Russia contract for the transit of Russian gas to the European market through the territory of Ukraine, the Kyiv Post reports.
“My strong appreciation for all the hard work and effort! Building on last week's political...
In a landmark ruling this week, the Supreme Court of Russia has acknowledged that cryptocurrencies could be used to bribe authorities in the country, recognizing coins as assets, Bitcoin News reported.
The Supreme Court of Russia said that in cases where the subject, if the bribe is property rights, an...
Exports of the wholly Russian-made MC-21 jetliner to Malaysia, which has signed a “soft” agreement to buy the airplane, may start in 2023, Industry and Trade minister Denis Manturov said on Monday in an interview for TV channel Rossiya-24.
"Commercial deliveries will start in 2021. We will start deliveries to...
Weeks after leaving Russia’s Nord Stream 2 project in fear of facing possible U.S. sanctions, Swiss-Dutch maritime construction firm Allseas has said it has no plans to resume work on the gas pipeline, Reuters reported on Monday.
The company suspended work on the underwater pipeline on December 21, shortly after U.S. President Donald...
The Russian Federal Anti-monopoly Service (FAS) has launched a probe into U.S.-based hotel reservation website Booking.com, the watchdog said on Monday, according to Engadget.
The FAS had discovered that Booking.com had made requests to hotels and hostels in the Russian Federation to offer identical prices on rival reservation sites like the...
Russian and Ukrainian companies on Monday signed the final version of a five-year agreement on the transit of Russian gas through the neighboring country, AP reports.
The deal comes after months of difficult talks and just ahead of a looming New Year deadline, which could have caused gas shortages in Europe.
The...
