After years of lobbying for the introduction of a partial open-skies regime, the operator of St Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport, Northern Capital Gateway (NCG), has finally gained government approval for the move, Kommersant reports.
NCG sees the open-skies regime, which in general is the liberalization and ease of access and rules...
In an effort to expand Philippine exports, the country’s Export Marketing Bureau is organizing food companies to participate in an outbound business matching mission to Moscow, Balikbayan Magazine reports.
This mission is in collaboration with the Philippine Trade and Investment Center (PTIC) Moscow and the Department of Agriculture (DA). The...
Russia’s biggest oil producer, Rosneft, will help India with its energy security efforts against the backdrop of the drone attacks on Saudi Aramco, the oil giant’s CEO Igor Sechin said at a meeting this week with India’s oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Economic Times reports.
The attacks last weekend caused the...
Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor has provided mobile operators with special equipment to enforce the authorities’ ban on messaging app Telegram, East-West Digital News reports.
The new equipment is being tested in real conditions in the Siberian region of Tyumen, the website reported citing sources in the telecom industry.
Relying on a...
The number of industrial robot units in Russia increased by 42% to 1,007 units in 2018, Vedomosti reported on Thursday citing data by the International Federation of Robotechnics (IFR).
However, the market remains negligible with five robots per 10,000 employees versus a global average of 99. In terms of sales...
The total value of Russia's oil reserves is estimated at 74.5 trillion rubles ($1.2 trillion), almost double the valuation compared to a year ago, the country’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has said, according to RBC.
The total value of hydrocarbons, gold, diamonds, copper, and iron ore is...
The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia said on Thursday it had fined U.S. tech giant Google 100,000 rubles (US$1,560) for publishing an ad for financial services by Ali Trade, a company that did not have the required license for such activity, 360tv.ru reports.
Google was fined in Russia...
The mechanism for the operation of the unified information system for verifying data of SIM card owners, proposed by the Russian government, carries a number of risks, including personal data leaks, the country’s biggest mobile operators say, according to Izvestia.
According to the newspaper, MTS, Megafon, and Beeline this week...
Russian state investigators miscalculated the value of the shares at the root of the fraud charges against U.S. businessman Michael Calvey, a financial expert analysis submitted in the Baring Vostok case reveals, sources told TASS news agency.
Calvey and several other Baring Vostok executives were detained in February on embezzlement...
Bulgaria has begun construction of Balkan Stream, an arm of Gazprom’s TurkStream gas pipeline through the country to Serbia, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov announced at a briefing following talks with Russia’s Minister of Industry and Trade, Denis Manturov.
The construction will be completed by early 2020, Manturov told reporters...
