Climate change could have dramatic consequences for Russia’s energy-rich Yamal peninsula, the region’s Minister of Natural Resources, Aleksandr Kalinin has said, according to The Barents Observer.
The Yamalo-Nenets region in the Arctic has become Russia’s number one petroleum region in recent years. The country’s leading oil and gas companies are...
Travel retailers and industry associations operating in Russia are welcoming a new law allowing the opening of arrivals duty free stores across all international airports, seaports and river crossings in the country, TR Business reported.
The long-awaited EAEU Customs Code was passed by the Russian government on 12 January 2019....
The Russian government will start building new airport terminals in 27 of the country’s regions in 2019, First Deputy Prime Minister Anton Siluanov said during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with the government, RNS reports.
“New terminals and runways at the airports of Novosibirsk, Perm, Chelyabinsk, Khabarovsk, Blagoveshchensk, and...
Russia’s largest LNG (liquefied natural gas) producer Novatek is looking to boost supply to the fast-growing Asian markets by upgrading its facilities in the Far East, ProFinance.ru reports.
The company has one producing plant, Yamal LNG, and aims to reach a final investment decision (FID) on another one, Arctic...
The Russian ruble slightly weakened against the dollar on Thursday, following the downward movement of emerging market currencies after having reached a four-week high over high domestic demand on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
The currency was slightly weaker against the dollar at 66.49 and remained unchanged at 75.55 versus the...
Kazakhstan imposed this week a temporary ban on the imports of animals, meat, milk, and raw materials obtained from the slaughter of animals, due to foot-and-mouth disease, AKI Press reports citing the press service of the Kazakh Ministry of Agriculture.
"In accordance with the official notification from the World Organisation...
London Heathrow Airport held onto its status as Europe’s busiest hub last year with a pack of four challengers almost neck-and-neck in the competition for second place, Bloomberg reported.
Moscow’s Sheremetyevo joined the regional top 10 at the expense of Rome’s Fiumicino terminal, spurred by a surge in soccer fans...
Serbia’s railway infrastructure company and Russia’s RZD International will sign a contract worth €230 million ($262 million) for three railway upgrade projects, Serbian news outlet B92 reported.
The deal will be signed during the visit of President Vladimir Putin to Belgrade, the Serbian government said in a statement on...
U.S.-sanctioned Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska will participate in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as the chairman of the Volnoye Delo foundation, the forum’s official program published on Tuesday reveals, according to Regnum.ru.
However, Deripaska’s participation in panel discussions and sessions has not yet been announced, the news outlet...
The sales of new cars and light commercial vehicles in Russia in 2018 grew 12.8% year-on-year amounting to 1.8 million units, according to data from the Association of European Businesses (AEB).
In December, the sales of new cars and light commercial vehicles increased by 5.6% month-on-month and amounted to...
