Russia's space industry corporation Roscosmos is ready to design a new super-heavy-lift rocket launcher, its director Dmitry Rogozin has announced, according to Space Watch.
Last week, Roscosmos posted photos from a meeting at the agency's leading research institute for machine-building (Tsniimash) near Moscow, where the announcement was made.
A Roscosmos spokesperson...
The Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Rumas said his country is ready to help Russia's Novosibirsk region upgrade its transport infrastructure, BelTA news agency reported.
Rumas met with the governor of Russia’s Novosibirsk Oblast Governor Andrei Travnikov last week.
“We could jointly develop and implement a project on the comprehensive...
A surge in international volumes flown by Aeroflot and AirBridgeCargo (ABC) helped Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport handle more than 300,000 tonnes of cargo in 2018, up by 5.5% over prior year, Air Cargo News reported.
A spokesperson for the Russian hub said that international cargo volumes rose by more than 7%...
Russia’s internet giant Yandex says it will IPO its ride-hailing service Yandex.Taxi sometime in the next two years, Vedomosti reports citing a statement by the company’s operating and financial director Greg Abovsky at the World Economic Forum on Friday.
“We have said in the past that Yandex.Taxi may and will...
The Russian economy expanded by 1.9 percent in December year-on-year after growing by 1.8 percent the previous month, the economy ministry said on Friday, according to Vesti Finance.
The ministry increased its estimate for gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2018 to 2 percent from 1.8 percent due to...
The CEO of Russia’s biggest independent gas producer Novatek, Leonid Mikhelson, says the U.S. is Russia's main competitor in the global market for liquefied natural gas (LNG), TASS news agency reports. Michelson was speaking at a meeting on the production of equipment for LNG plants held in the Russian...
In the same week that the United States overtook Russia as the world’s largest producer of crude oil and gas, import data from China showed Russia was the biggest crude supplier to China for the whole of 2018, Reuters reported.
The data, released Friday, shows the world’s second-largest economy...
A consortium made up of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and sovereign funds from China and the Middle East plans to submit a deal to acquire a stake in the Russian oilfield services company Eurasia Drilling Company (EDC), TASS news agency reported.
"I think we will not take...
Russia believes economic cooperation with the U.S. is important, despite ongoing political tensions between the two countries, the head of Russia’s sovereign investment fund RDIF Kirill Dmitriev said in an interview with Yahoo Finance.
“I think business cooperation between Russia and the U.S. is important. It’s non-existent right now,...
Russians topped the list of foreign tourists entering Turkey through border gates in 2018, according to a Turkish Interior Ministry statement released on Thursday, Vesti FM reported.
Officials from the ministry's Directorate General of Migration Management told Turkey’s Anadolu Agency that nearly 6 million Russians came to the country...
