Denmark has given the final approval to the construction of the Baltic Pipeline set to bring Norwegian natural gas to Poland via Danish waters, Gazeta.ru reports.
The move comes as Copenhagen continues to delay the approval of the Russia-EU Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
A statement on the project website hails the...
Mail.Ru and Yandex, Russia’s two largest tech companies, both reported strong third-quarter results this week, with higher earnings and revenues figures, The Moscow Times reports.
The results come amid ongoing concerns over government proposals to limit foreign ownership in Russia’s largest technology companies.
Shares at Mail.Ru rose 9% on the back...
The Bank of Russia has announced the biggest reduction in its key interest rate since 2017, by 50 basis points to 6.5%, The Financial Times reported.
The move did not affect the USD-RUB rate, which largely unchanged and continued to trade at around 64, the report said.
The central bank said...
Russia’s biggest restaurant group is counting on the country’s meat-loving population to embrace Meatless Mondays, a global health initiative encouraging people around the world to go meatless one day a week, The Moscow Times reports.
Rosinter launched their Meatless Mondays initiative in restaurants in six major cities mid-October. It encourages...
From 2020, Cyprus and Israel will promote joint travel packages for tourists in Russia, the U.S., and Germany, focusing on golf, gastronomy and wellness holidays, Cypriot news outlet Ant1 reported.
A statement from Cypriot Tourism Minister Savvas Perdios and Israel’s Tourism Ministry Director-General Amir Halevi said the two countries “reached...
The head of Russia’s biggest oil company Rosneft, Igor Sechin, told a conference in Italy on Thursday that Saudi Arabia’s status as a reliable global oil supplier has taken a hit from drone attacks on its facilities last month.
According to RBC, Sechin said the attacks, which temporarily shut down...
Russia on Thursday dismissed media reports that Russian hackers hijacked an Iranian cyber-espionage operation and used it to attack government and industry organizations in more than 20 countries, Reuters reports.
A spokesman for the Russian embassy in the U.K. said the media writings were an "unsavory" interpretation of a security...
Sheremetyevo International Airport in cooperation with Sheremetyevo Customs conducted a media tour ahead of Russian Customs Day. The airport authorities presented the performance record for the first nine months of 2019 and the prospects for cooperation between Moscow Cargo LLC and Sheremetyevo Customs, the airport’s press service said.
The purpose...
The recently appointed head of Russia’s Federal Agency for Tourism (Rosturizm), Zarina Doguzova, says in an interview for Travel Trends Today that Russia wants to position India as a top-priority tourist market.
Doguzova, who was instrumental in organizing the Sochi Winter Olympics and last year’s FIFA World Cup in Russia,...
Russian independent gas producer Novatek said on Tuesday that the U.S. Treasury has lifted restrictions on Chinese companies operating tanker lines to transport liquefied natural gas (LNG) for Russia’s Yamal LNG project, Vedomosti reported.
“The joint venture that owns a number of specialized Arc7 icebreaker vessels serving the Novatek-operated Yamal...
