Sunday, August 9, 2026
Tatneft is interested in a project for oil field development in Uzbekistan, with exploration work starting this summer, a company exec has said, according to Gazeta.uz. Speaking at the international exhibition Oil & Gas Uzbekistan - 2019, Rustam Sharapov, head of the contract maintenance department at the Russian oil and...
Rising taxes and the continuing decline in real incomes have led Russia’s consumer confidence index to a historic low of 62 points in the first quarter, RBC reports citing research by The Conference Board and Nielsen. Only 25% of consumers expect their financial situation to improve in the future, while...
Hungary will continue to import gas from Russia if U.S. energy giant Exxon doesn’t fulfil its promises of investment in a Black Sea project in Romania, Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said, according to Emerging Europe. Exxon and Austrian energy group OMV's Romanian subsidiary, OMV Petrom SA, have put...
Russian gas major Gazprom has retained its place as the top Russian company in this year’s Forbes Global 2000, an annual rating of the biggest companies of the world, TASS news agency reported. This year 22 Russian companies found themselves in the list against 25 in the previous year’s...
Sheremetyevo International Airport (SVO) is ranked 6th as one of the best airports in 2019 in an article published by Bloomberg. According to author Claire Ballantine “The flight industry is experiencing a rapid increase in global tourism. The Worldwide Tourism Organization estimates that worldwide international tourist arrivals increased 6%, to...
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Vladimir Groisman said at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday that the country has imposed new economic sanctions against Russia banning supplies of certain groups of goods and introducing special duties, Unian reports. "Those are tit-for-tat measures - embargo and special duties on Russian goods," he said, adding...
The Tourism and Exhibition Authority of Bahrain (BTEA) says the country attracted more than 10,000 Russian tourists through a charter program operated by tour operator Coral Travel, Zawya reports. This was part of the BTEA’s efforts to attract tourists from new markets to the Kingdom of Bahrain, as the first...
Japanese companies are setting politics aside to enter or expand in Russia, a country that is becoming a key European market, the Nikkei Asian Review writes. For decades, Russia was perceived in Japan as a tough market, with talk about doing business here tending to run along political lines: joint...
Possible U.S. sanctions against Switzerland’s Allseas and Italy’s Saipem - the companies constructing Russian offshore gas pipelines - will not affect Russia’s Nord Stream 2 project, analysts speaking to daily newspaper Izvestia say. On Tuesday, U.S. senators have come up with a bill imposing restrictions on individuals and companies involved...
Russia’s federal air transport agency (Rosaviatsiya) said in a preliminary report for April that the number of passengers carried by Russian airlines was up 12.1% year-on-year and stood at 8.97 million, Rosaviainsider.com reports. Russia’s top five airlines experienced good growth in the month, according to the agency’s data. Flag...