Sunday, June 28, 2026
Russian authorities have announced this month that domestic oil production hit 11.36 million barrels per day (bpd), on average in September, marking a new historic peak reached despite the often-cited poor shape of the Russian economy and negative impact of Western sanctions. But the news also raised eyebrows in...
Fertilizer might not seem an obvious source of geopolitical tension, but with Moscow working openly and covertly to widen its sphere of power, the prospect of a politically connected Russian firm cornering a key part of the European agricultural market has raised sharp concerns, the New York Times reports....
Information technology park Dubai Internet City (DIC) has signed an agreement with the Russian Export Centre (REC) to launch the first Russian Centre for Digital Innovations and Information and Communication Technologies outside of Russia in Dubai, Aviamost reports. The center, which will encompass of a space of over 20,000 square...
The 1,000-ton shipment of soybeans grown by China's Dongjin Group in Russia's Far Eastern region was offloaded in Fuyuan, in the Heilongjiang Province on Thursday, the Global Times reports. The Chinese project marks the first time of non-genetically modified soybeans grown by a Chinese company in Russia and shipped to...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has blasted new U.S. sanctions on Iranian businesses, saying Washington appears to be taking every opportunity to exert pressure on countries it dislikes, RIA news agency reports. The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday slapped sanctions on Bank Mellat and Mehr Eqtesad Bank and other companies...
Russia’s third-largest oil producer, Gazprom Neft, said on Tuesday at a briefing in London that the country has told its oil companies they can restore crude oil production to 2016 levels, Euronews reports. “We haven’t been restrained by the government from increasing above 2016 levels,” said deputy chief CEO Vadim...
The U.S. military has supplied hundreds of thousands of Soviet-style assault rifles and machine guns to allies and partners over the years and acquired some of its own for special operations and other training purposes, but it has had to largely source those weapons from friendly third-party countries that...
Three energy and transport companies in Ukraine and Poland have been infected by hackers with sophisticated new malware, with destructive cyberattacks possibly planned, a software security firm said on Wednesday, according to Reuters. A report by researchers at Slovakia-based firm ESET did not attribute the hacking activity, recorded between 2015...
Sheremetyevo International Airport (SVO) is the venue for the first in Russia International Congress covering "Actual Issues of Aviation Medicine." Congress will bring together the world's leading experts in the field of aerospace medicine. The initiator and organizer of the large-scale event was the Association of Aviation Medicine Doctors (ABAM)...
Shareholders of Russia's Sheremetyevo Airport have delayed the sale of 10% of the airport to 2019, according to the chairman of the board of directors and co-owner of the airport, Alexander Ponomarenko. "Now we are concluding an agreement with JPMorgan Chase bank receive the right to search for and negotiate...