The U.S. is set to create a new $1 billion fund for energy projects in Europe and Eurasia to free countries like Ukraine from Russian energy dependence, ABC News reports.
American lawmakers say Moscow uses its dominant position in energy to exert a malignant influence across the region.
The plan authorizes...
Sheremetyevo International Airport carried out a highly successful exercise in managing emergency relief operations on December 11 as part of the All-Russian Command and Staff Exercises on emergency operations. The exercises were held simultaneously at transportation facilities in several regions of the Russian Federation in accordance with the Executive...
Russia's Far East has enormous potential - tourism experts, investors, and representatives of the authorities all agreed at the recently held Eastern Russia Tourism Week in Sakhalin, according to East Russia.
The region shows big promise and tour agents are eager to offer new itineraries, the news outlet writes.
Russia's Sakhalin...
Hungary has estimated losses from the five years of EU sanctions on Russia at $8.5 billion, the country’s minister of foreign affairs Peter Szijjarto told a local TV station on Wednesday, according to TASS.
"Since imposed sanctions, a total of $8.5 billion were lost," Szijjarto said. "Russia was our...
One of the world’s biggest diamond producers, Russia's Alrosa, has announced the launch of a blockchain program on one of China's largest social platforms, WeChat, to help Chinese retailers track the origin of diamonds, ComNews.ru reported.
The Russian company said the e-commerce solution will be developed together with tech company...
The Syrian parliament has approved contracts for oil exploration with two Russian companies, explained by the authorities as a drive to boost output, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
The contracts, voted by parliament on Monday, were signed earlier this year with two Russian firms it identified as Mercury LLC and Velada...
Companies registered in offshore tax havens account for over half of foreign direct investment in Russia, the highest proportion of all major economies, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a report, according to The Moscow Times.
The paper, exploring investment trends in the world’s top 20 economies, estimates around...
Russian internet holding Rambler Group said on Monday it will ask law enforcement to close a criminal case against American-owned web server Nginx, which has rocked the country’s IT industry, ZDNet reports.
Rambler claims ownership of Nginx's intellectual property rights and may pursue the case in civil court, the company...
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved legislation to slap sanctions on companies building the massive Nord Stream 2 pipeline to bring Russian natural gas to Germany, but it was uncertain whether the measures would slow completion of the project, AFP reports.
The Senate easily passed the U.S. defense policy bill...
Sheremetyevo International Airport served 46.38 million passengers in the first 11 months of 2019, an increase of 10.1 percent over the same period in 2018.
According to FlightStats, which tracks and rates real-time flight status, departures and arrivals, airport delays, and airport information worldwide, Sheremetyevo also had the best record...
