Strong forecasts for the European harvest as well as a weak ruble pressured Russian wheat export prices last week, as competition from other exporters increased, Reuters reported citing analysts.
Russian agricultural consultancy SovEcon said that Black Sea prices for wheat with 12.5% protein content fell $2 to $195 per ton...
Тhe International Monetary Fund (IMF) says in its latest report on Russia that low oil prices have had a more serious impact on the country’s economy than sanctions, Gazeta.ru reports.
Western sanctions imposed on Russia slowed the growth of the Russian economy by an average of 0.2 percentage points per...
The operator of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 project, Nord Stream 2 AG, said on Monday that the process of laying pipelines in Swedish waters is almost finished and will be completed in October, Oil Capital reported.
"Pipelay in the 510-kilometre long Swedish section of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is almost...
Around 200 Russian holidaymakers were stranded at airports in Bulgaria’s summer resorts of Varna and Burgas over the weekend due to problems with airline Bulgaria Air, Dnevnik.bg reported citing Russia’s Honorary Consul in Burgas Tonko Fotev.
"Due to problems with planes, the Bulgaria Air carrier altered the schedule of flights...
A prominent Moldovan businessman and ex-leader of Moldova’s ruling-turned-opposition Democratic Party, Vladimir Plahotniuc, has been charged in absentia of setting up and participating in a criminal group, Interfax reports.
Judge Anatoly Belyakov of the Tverskoy court in Russia’s capital on Monday ruled to "satisfy the investigator’s motion and place Plahotniuc...
The ruble proved resilient to other emerging-market assets collapsing on Monday, after the latest round of U.S. sanctions proved less severe than investors feared, Bloomberg reports.
While developing-nation assets tumbled on Monday as the U.S.-China trade war escalated, the ruble climbed for the first time in seven sessions and bonds...
Sheremetyevo International Airport in the Moscow Region is recognized as the best global air harbor in the rating prepared by the UK-based Stasher, the luggage service provider, TASS reports.
Sheremetyevo ranks first in the airport rating with 6.50 points earned across eight individual indicators. The Moscow airport turned out to...
Hundreds of wildfires are torching huge swaths of Siberia after an unusually hot and dry summer left forests primed to burn, Vox reported.
The blazes, likely ignited by lightning and strengthened by strong winds, have already burned more than 15,000 square miles, an area larger than the state of Maryland....
The United States formally withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia Friday, as the U.S. military prepares to test a new non-nuclear mobile-launched cruise missile developed specifically to challenge Moscow in Europe, according to a senior defense official, CNN reported.
Washington’s withdrawal puts an end to a landmark...
The Finish Embassy and consulates in Russia will no longer provide Russian citizens with facilities when applying for a short-term visa to the Schengen Area, the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, according to Vedomosti.
“As of 1 September 2019, the Embassy of Finland in Moscow, Finland’s Consulate General in...
