Nearly three decades after the collapse of communism, most Russians dream of working in a giant state-run company like Gazprom, Bloomberg writes citing a survey by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM).
40% of citizens surveyed identified the government-controlled natural gas export monopoly as their preferred employer in a...
Ukrainian state energy company Naftogaz is suing Russia at the Hague Tribunal with a request to oblige the Russian Federation to pay $5.2 billion in compensation for losses inflicted following the seizure of the company’s assets in Crimea, RFE/RL reported.
“At the end of June, NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine and...
Russia will suspend supplies of pome and stone fruits from China starting August 10 due to cases of contaminated products' deliveries, RBC reports.
A representative of the country’s veterinary and phytosanitary watchdog (Rosselkhodnadzor) told reporters on Wednesday the ban will be extended on plums, nectarines, apricots, peaches, cherry plums, cherries,...
Chinese video game publisher iDreamSky Technology Holdings, backed by investment holding Tencent, has partnered with Mail.ru Group in a move that will help the Russian tech firm expand its gaming footprint in China, Reuters reported citing sources.
As part of the alliance, the two companies will collaborate to publish games...
Legislation to impose sanctions on the construction of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline was approved by the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday, Bloomberg reports.
The bill, “Protecting Europe’s Energy Security Act,” which passed by a 20-2 vote, reflects some lawmakers’ concerns over Russia’s energy grip on Europe...
Gianluca Savoini, a closely placed aide of Italy’s nationalist deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, two Italians and three Russians discussed the terms of a deal to secretly funnel around $65 million of Russian oil money to Salvini’s Lega party and its European election campaign.
The meeting was held in the...
The gross international reserves (GIR) of Russia reached over $530 billion as of June 29, the Bank of Russia has reported, according to bne Intellinews.
The figure is now well beyond the $500 billion informal target that the central bank had set itself as a comfortable reserve level. Reserves have...
Three companies have expressed interest in buying the shares of Prominvestbank (PIB), a Ukrainian subsidiary of Russia’s VEB.RF bank, Finclub reports citing a disclosure published on the National Security and Stock Market Commission’s website.
"The companies that are interested in buying Prominvestbank are the Investitsionnoye Credit Institution controlled by Kyiv...
The captain of the Roxen, a Finnish fishing boat with an Estonian crew detained in the Baltic Sea in May by the Border Service of Russia for illegal fishing, has been released, his attorney Igor Voskoboinik told Interfax on Tuesday.
"Investigative authorities lifted the preventive measure for non-departure from the...
A 10 billion ruble ($157.26 million) bond issue was placed by Belarus on the Russian market on Tuesday with demand exceeding 45 billion roubles, according to the vice president of Russia’s Gazprombank, one of the placement’s organizers.
The country placed two issues of non-convertible interest-bearing series 3 and 4 bonds...
