From Tuesday, October 1, 53 nationalities can apply for a free e-visa to visit the Russian city of St Petersburg and the neighbouring Leningrad region, Travel Daily Media reports.
According to officials, the e-visa is issued within “four calendar days, including week-ends and bank holidays.” A tourist only has to...
The Moscow Exchange will convene the annual Moscow Exchange Forum: New York Session at the Roosevelt Hotel on Thursday, the exchange said in a statement.
The day will kick off with a panel discussion titled “When America sneezes, the whole world catches a cold. Is Russia immune?” Panelists will...
A spokeswoman for the finance ministry said on Tuesday that Venezuela has made its latest scheduled debt repayment to Russia, Reuters reports. She did not specify the amount paid by the Latin American country.
Venezuela’s close ally Moscow has acted as a lender of last resort for Caracas, with the...
Sanctions imposed last week by Washington against the world’s largest Chinese shipping company Cosco have dealt a heavy blow to Novatek’s Yamal LNG project, which will not be able to use more than a third of its fleet, Kommersant reported.
Yamal LNG is a joint venture based around a...
Fresh fruit and vegetable exporters from Turkey are aiming at the spot of Russia’s top supplier once again as relations between the two countries normalize, Time Turk reports.
Representatives of the country’s fresh fruit and vegetable sector attended the WorldFood Moscow 2019 fair organized last week.
A total of 33 Turkish...
The world's wheat fields are at risk of enduring "severe, prolonged, and near-simultaneous droughts" by the end of the century — raising serious concerns about future food insecurity and political instability, says a new study published in the journal Science Advances.
This means the proportion of global wheat production areas...
Serial production of humanoid robots that are able to integrate into business processes were launched by Russian company Promobot, the firm’s co-founder Oleg Kivokurtsev told Vedomosti on Monday.
Swiss company Advanced Robotics will purchase about a 1,000 Russian service robots produced by the Perm-based company and will receive exclusive rights...
Despite a drop in output in September, the Russian oil stood at 11.24 million bpd, still above the quotas set by the global OPEC+ output deal, two sources familiar with the data told Reuters on Monday.
Under the deal agreed between OPEC member states and other oil producers, Russia has...
Yandex said on Friday it is launching a user-driven video service it hopes will rival YouTube in Russia, Reuters reported.
The platform comes through its Yandex Zen recommendation service, with an approach similar to ByteDance's Toutiao, where bloggers upload content and an algorithm recommends it to users.
“For many Russian bloggers,...
Russian coal companies will have to learn to work in a new environment since the decline of coal in western markets is an inevitable trend, experts told Vedomosti.
As European consumers choose cleaner gas, coal stockpiles European ports are growing in large ports across the continent, the business newspaper writes....
