Belarusian oil refinery Naftan has started charging penalties from Russian suppliers due to the short supply of marketable oil in April, Sergei Altukhov, deputy CEO of the Belarusian refinery, told reporters on Tuesday, according to BelTA news agency reports.
"The company’s legal department began work on charging penalties in respect...
Sheremetyevo ranks as the sixth best airport in the world for 2019, passenger rights company AirHelp announced last week. The top three spots for this year are claimed by Doha’s Hamad International Airport, Tokyo Haneda International Airport, and Athens International Airport.
The AirHelp rating is determined by calculating on-time performance,...
Two U.S. Senators, Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, have announced plans to introduce a bipartisan bill to sanction companies associated with Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Reuters reported citing unnamed sources.
The controversial gas pipeline project would deliver gas from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea, bypassing...
U.S. President Donald Trump has said that he shares Vladimir Putin’s desire to improve trade ties between Russia and the U.S., after a lengthy phone conversation with his Russian counterpart earlier this month, Reuters reports.
“We intend to do a lot of trade with Russia,” Trump told reporters at the...
The Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) and the Russian Union of Travel Industry (RATA) have signed an agreement on cooperation in Tokyo on Tuesday, BigAsia.ru reported.
The two sides agreed to organize joint events for developing tourism and increasing tourism flows between the two countries.
"Thanks to this agreement we will...
For the first time since the beginning of the year, Russia has fully met its obligations under the OPEC+ deal to cut oil output, Kommersant reports. This was facilitated by a sharp decline in production of Surgutneftegaz in early May, which is associated with a recent polluted oil scandal,...
Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court on Monday fined Russian celebrity and prominent hairstylist Sergey Zverev 15,000 rubles ($230) for an illegal protest against the construction of a drink water bottling plant at Lake Baikal in the Irkutsk Region, Novaya Gazeta reports.
In early March, Zverev stood by the Kremlin twice to...
Russian cyber security provider Kaspersky Lab has announced the acquisition of a 29.5% stake in New Cloud Technologies (NCT), Finansovaya Gazeta reported.
Launched in 2013 — now with offices in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Innopolis (Tatarstan) — NCT develops complex cloud solutions for online mass storage and document processing. Its...
Sheremetyevo Airport has been ranked among the top 10 best airports in the world for 2019, according to passenger rights company AirHelp, Bloomberg reports.
The airports are rated based on three factors: on-time performance, service quality, and food and shopping options. The first accounts for 60 percent of the score...
The deteriorating investment climate which followed Russia’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea is causing losses of at least $30 billion every year, economist Sergei Guriev said in an interview with journalist Elizaveta Osetinskaya published Monday.
Russia’s 2014 annexation of the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine has weakened Russia’s relations with...
