More and more Russian food producers are catering for the domestic Muslim community, which accounts for around 15 percent of Russia's population and is set to expand, and in some cases are also setting their sights on export, AFP reports.
The manager of a sausage factory near Moscow, Arslan Gizatullin...
Great Britain’s exit from the European Union will have almost no impact on the Russian economy, the Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin said on Sunday, according to TASS.
"I don’t think this topic is worth serious discussion because it will be minimal in terms of its impacts on the...
A Russian space capsule with three astronauts aboard has docked with the International Space Station after a fast-track trip to the orbiting laboratory, AP/Washington Post informed.
The Soyuz capsule docked at 22:48 GMT Saturday, just six hours and 20 minutes after blasting off from Russia’s launch complex in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
The...
Hackers have breached SyTech, a contractor for FSB, Russia's national intelligence service, from where they stole information about internal projects the company was working on behalf of the agency, ZDNet reports.
The breach took place last weekend, on July 13, when a group of hackers going by the name of...
Russia’s leading malls recorded more foot traffic over the first half of this year, suggesting an end to a continuous contraction that has marred retail for the last five years, the latest Watcom Shopping Index reveals, according to Intellinews.
“During the first half of the year the Shopping Index in...
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with the head of Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell Ben Van Buerden this week to discuss liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects, the Kremlin's press service said, according to RIA Novosti.
Earlier this year Shell pulled out of the Baltic LNG project it operated...
A controversial new draft bill that would force all smartphone makers to pre-install Russian-made software on their devices sold in the country has been submitted to the State Duma, Reuters reported.
In a bid to support domestic software producers, Russian lawmakers from the ruling United Russia party want to make...
The global capital market provides a higher assessment of Russia's credit rating that rating agencies do, Russia’s minister of economic development Minister Maxim Oreshkin said on Saturday, according to state-run news agency TASS.
Earlier in the day, Standard & Poor's (S&P) said it upheld Russia's rating at BBB- with a...
Russian food retailer X5 Group has teamed up with Coca-Cola to test “reverse vending machines” in its Pyaterochka stores in Moscow, Cre.ru reports.
The retailer aims to use the initiative to collect and recycle used plastic bottles and aluminium beverage cans. The vending machines will dispense a 15% discount coupon,...
As demand for the ruble got a boost from month-end tax payments, the Russian currency firmed slightly on Thursday, pricing in the globally weaker dollar, Reuters reports.
The ruble was 0.2% stronger against the dollar at 62.8 and had gained 0.1% to trade at 70.6 versus the euro at 0735...
