Russia’s ownership of long and short-term U.S. Treasury securities dropped in January from $13.216 billion to $13.18 billion compared to the previous month, the department’s data revealed, according to TASS.
The share of long-term bonds accounted for $6.322 billion, while short-term bonds holdings stood at $6.858 billion.
Russia began to...
Numerous details about Donald Trump’s proposed Moscow tower project have been revealed by the Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Kremlin’s role in the 2016 U.S. election, Reuters reports.
The real estate, which Trump pursued while running for president despite denying at the time any links to Russia,...
A rise in early bookings by Russian tour operators for travel packages to Greece is leading Greek authorities to expect more than one million Russian holidaymakers to visit the country this year, Gtp.gr reports.
Early bookings from Russia are up by 15 percent, the Greek Tourism Ministry said on Thursday...
The weekly shopping index was negative in Moscow and St. Petersburg though it grew in Yekaterinburg and Kazan over the most recent holiday, International Women’s Day, Kommersant writes, concluding that the holiday failed to stimulate Russians to head to local shopping malls.
Muscovites and St. Petersburg residents now tend...
Russian tech giant Yandex has fully acquired TheQuestion, a question-and-answer social network similar to Quora, founded by former Eho Moskvy journalist Tonia Samsonova.
TheQuestion started out as a project to stimulate Russia’s grassroots democracy and has turned into a multi-million-dollar Internet resource.
Yandex’s Tuesday announcement said the company will merge the website with a similar service it launched...
Russian confectioners are looking to tap the lucrative Chinese market, and have recently begun thinking about localizing their production in the country, Kommersant reports.
Russian holding company United Confectioners, which owns such legendary Soviet candy brands as Alyonka and Babaevsky, has come up with a project to create production...
German carmaker Opel will restart its local production in Russia after a four-year absence by making three models available at Russian dealerships in the fourth quarter of 2019, the company said in a statement.
Opel’s owner, French group PSA owns a plant in the western Russian city of Kaluga, where...
A 9.53% stake in Russian copper/nickel mining company Intergeo was sold on Thursday in a joint deal by Russia’s RDIF sovereign wealth fund, the Russia-China Investment fund and a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth, Interfax reported.
Intergeo, a part of Onexim Group, which manages the assets of Russian billionaire Mikhail...
The rise of the Russian ruble after long stagnation could make the emerging Baltic markets a more attractive proposition in the midst of the dollar’s downswing, investment strategist Mike Harris says, according to the Baltic Times.
Analyzing the recent Federal Reserve hiatus, Harris urged traders to capitalize on the...
A planned water bottling plant on the shores of Russia’s Lake Baikal will be audited by authorities, Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev vowed Tuesday, according to NTV.
Local residents in the Siberian village of Kultuk were angered by reports of the construction of the bottling plant, with more than...
