Thursday, June 25, 2026
The Moscow Exchange has launched repurchase agreement operations with the shares of the U.S. ten most liquid securities - Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla, Google, Nike, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Twitter and McDonald's - in rubles and dollars, Reuters reported. Access to such repo operations through the Moscow Exchange’s agent is the bourse’s first...
Tmall, owned by China’s Alibaba Group, plans to become one of top online retailers in Russia by the end of this year, a representative of Tmall and AliЕxpress in Russia told Vedomosti. The famous brands seller has leased a warehouse in the South Gate Industrial Park near Domodedovo Airport, Tmall’s...
The subcontractors of Russia’s top gas producer, Gazprom, among them billionaires Arkady Rotenberg and Gennady Timchenko, are the ‘big winners’ from the gas giant’s projects, a recent report by Sberbank analysts has said. The state gas company’s projects to construct export-oriented pipelines like the Power of Siberia, Nord Stream 2...
Russia’s Justice Ministry has recognized the legal status of cryptocurrency under the category of ‘other property,’ the minister, Alexander Konovalov told reporters in Moscow. The official added that Russia doesn’t consider crypto coins as electronic money, at least not at this stage, Bitcoin News reports. When asked about the current...
The planned Nord Stream 2 pipeline is a commercial venture Russia finds profitable and Moscow will defend it despite Washington opposing the project, Russian president Vladimir Putin said after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday. “We have always treated this project as a purely commercial one, a...
Russia and Japan reached an agreement on cooperation on the so-called “Smart City” project, which includes unified management of the entire communal infrastructure, dispatching and repair services, Russia's Deputy Construction Minister Andrey Tchibis announced. According to RIA news agency, the official was speaking at the 9th meeting of the Russian-Japanese...
Russia’s Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company which operates in the Murmansk Region as part of giant Nornickel, is working on modernization of its facilities estimated at 25 billion rubles ($400 million), the press service of the Murmansk Region’s government said on Friday. The announcement comes following a visit of the...
The United States has refused to hold consultations with Russia over Washington’s introduction of import restrictions on steel and aluminum, saying the measures were not protectionist, Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development told TASS news agency on Friday. The Ministry said Russia will notify the World Trade Organization (WTO) of its...
A month after a Moscow court satisfied the claim by Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor to block access to the Telegram instant messaging service in the country, the regulator is still struggling to enforce the court decision, Kommersant reports. The company running the messenger app refused to provide keys for decrypting users’...
American private business is free to decide whether or not to participate in the forthcoming St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, a representative of the U.S. State Department told TASS news agency. "We have an open dialogue with the business community, and ultimately companies are free to make their own decisions, in...