Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Russia does not engage in "international shopping" and does not want to meddle in U.S.-Danish relations, the Kremlin said on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump flaunted an idea to purchase Greenland from Denmark, the New York Times reports.  “We don’t engage in international shopping of that kind,” Kremlin spokesman...
Russian energy giant Gazprom will be allowed to sell up to 25 billion cubic meters of gas per year at unregulated prices, after the Russian government approved a 40% increase in the company’s quota for natural gas sales through exchange trading, Vedomosti reports.  The government decree also canceled the parity...
A recent deadly explosion at a military testing site in northwestern Russia hasn’t posed any radiation threat, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday, without specifying the circumstances of the mysterious incident, the Associated Press reports.  Putin emphasized that neighboring nations haven’t recorded any spike in radioactivity. “These are the objective...
One of Russia’s biggest internet companies, Mail.ru Group, has acquired a controlling stake in car sharing operator YouDrive jointly with investment company Proxima Capital, Mail.ru said in a statement on Thursday, according to Reuters.  Mail.ru did not disclose the size of the stake or the cost of its investment, but...
The federal prosecutor of Germany has charged a Russian citizen for allegedly exported technology and chemicals to Russia that fall under an embargo, local newspaper Wochenblatt reported.  Vladimir D., whose full name and age were not given, exported goods worth 1.832 million euros ($2.03 million) to Russia between 2014 and...
The construction of Terminal G at the Moscow based Sheremetyevo Airport may start in 2024, Sergey Papkov, Deputy General Director of the airport for construction, told reporters, TASS informed. "I think so," he said responding to the question of whether the construction of the terminal will begin in 2024-2025, adding...
Oil and petroleum sales by Russia to the United States in the first five months of this year reached six-year highs, RBC reported citing data by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). According to the data analyzed by the Russian news outlet, the U.S. imported 61.75 million barrels of crude...
Chinese tech giant Huawei is planning to open three new research centers in Russia by the end of this year and triple its research and development staff in the country in the next six years, Gizmodo reports.  The Shenzhen-based telecom company will open its new centers in Russia in addition...
German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions is supplying a new coal handling system to the State Transport Leasing Company (STLC) in Russia, Mining Magazine reports.  The system will be the centerpiece of a new terminal for coal exports in the Port of Lavna near Murmansk, on the western shore of Kola...
Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has proposed the privatization of budget airline Pobeda, part of the country’s national air carrier Aeroflot Group, RBC reported last week. In a letter sent by the head of FAS Igor Artemyev to the Transportation Ministry in July, he argues that Pobeda is cutting...