U.S. tech giant Google has started censoring certain entries from its search results in Russia Wednesday in compliance with long-standing demands from authorities, business newspaper Vedomosti reports.
Roskomnadzor, Russia’s media and telecommunications watchdog, recently fined Google $7,500 for failing to take down certain search results. New regulations that went into...
Easing visa restrictions may increase Russia’s budget revenue from the tourism industry by 20-30%, the country’s Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin told state-run news agency TASS.
"According to our estimates, easing visa restrictions and making other major changes may help immediately increase Russia’s revenue from the tourism industry, which currently...
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Wednesday with the winners of the first "Considerable Business" award, some of the country’s brightest entrepreneurs, whose projects have been selected as best from tens of thousands of applicants, Bankir.ru reports.
The best ones were chosen in six nominations: "Early success", "Fast growth", "Innovative...
Russia’s biggest bank, Sberbank, has selected thirty start-ups that completed the acceleration at the joint Russian-American accelerator held in cooperation with U.S.-based early-stage venture fund and seed accelerator 500 Startups, Global Finance reports.
The Russian bank said it will invest up to 120 million rubles ($1.8 million) in the...
The Russian wheat market continued experiencing an upturn in prices last week, UkrAgroConsult reports.
Export prices for Russian milling wheat closed the week up another $2-3/MT FOB in the deep-water ports and on average up $10/MT FOB in smaller ports. That substantial price rise in smaller ports results from still...
Russia and Iran have given up the U.S. dollar in settlement payments and plan to shift completely to national currencies, with the euro to be used in situations in which there are no other options, Russia’s Ambassador to Iran Levan Dzhagaryan said, according to RIA news agency.
"It is crucial...
Russia expects to establish free trade zones agreements with Israel, Singapore, India, Egypt and Iran in the near future, the country’s First Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Sergey Tsyb said on Wednesday, according to Gazeta.ru.
World Trade Organization (WTO) member-states currently use in total over 7,500 non-tariff measures (quotas,...
Russian arms exports have resolutely stood at $15 billion over the past three years, Dmitry Shugayev, Director of Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, told Kommersant.
"The primary goal, which we are trying to achieve despite everything, is promoting our products in foreign markets regardless of any external circumstances. I...
Rosneft, Russia’s biggest oil producer, said Tuesday it more than doubled its net income last year, taking advantage of the climbing price of crude despite instability in the markets, AFP reported.
The state-run oil giant reported a net income of 549 billion rubles ($8.4 billion) in 2018, up from...
Airports across Russia could introduce automated passport control systems, which will allow passengers to automatically pass through passport control using biometric data and foreign passports, RT reported.
Border and customs officers have already conducted testing of the systems at Sheremetyevo and Domodedovo airports, and based on its results, a decision...
