Germany’s Economy Minister Peter Altmaier accused Washington of seeking to block the planned Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline between Russia and Germany to shore up its own exports, Reuters reported.
The statement comes after the U.S. warned that the project may be subject to sanctions by Washington. On Thursday, U.S. Deputy...
Russian grain exports to China have hit the million ton mark for the first time this crop year, according to the country’s veterinary and phytosanitary agency, Rosselkhoznadzor.
Official data shows that from July 1, 2017 to May 15, 2018, a total of 1.23 million tons of grain from Russia was...
Iran has signed a three-year provisional agreement with the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) to enter the bloc’s free-trade zone, TASS news agency reported. The agreement was inked on the sidelines of an economic forum in the Kazakh capital city of Astana on Thursday.
“The temporary agreement stipulates an effective dispute...
Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has officially confirmed the government’s plans to create special administrative districts with offshore features in Russia, Vedomosti reported on Wednesday.
"Very soon we are planning to create special regions with special legal status and a special tax regime in Primorsky Krai and the Kaliningrad region on...
On April 23, the U.S. Treasury eased restrictions on billionaire Oleg Deripaska’s aluminum company Rusal it imposed 17 days earlier. Instead of barring Rusal from international markets, which is what the United States originally intended to do, the Treasury suggested it might lift the sanctions altogether.
Washington’s change of course says...
The global LNG industry is going through changes that can soon see an end to long-term contracts, Russian gas major Novatek’s CFO Mark Gyetvay, said on Tuesday. Novatek was looking at a combination of different contract lengths to offer prospective buyers from its planned Arctic LNG-2 project, Gyetvay added.
According...
Russia’s biggest lender, Sberbank, and telecommunications company MTS have implemented the first Russian issue of commercial bonds via smart contracts utilizing a blockchain platform developed by the National Settlement Depository, the companies said on Tuesday.
Sberbank CIB was the organizer and main buyer of the issue of MTS bonds with a...
President Vladimir Putin drove across a new 12-mile bridge to Crimea in a large orange construction truck on Monday, inaugurating his latest megaproject and tightening Moscow’s claim to the disputed territory, The Guardian reported.
The bridge, finished six months ahead of schedule, established a land link from Russia to the Crimean...
Uranium could be on the list of materials considered for export restrictions to the U.S. in Russia’s counter-sanctions bill currently in parliamentary procedure, Streetwise Reports writes.
According to the report, if Russia does restrict uranium exports to the United States, that could be bullish for the price of uranium as...
The world’s largest diamond miner by output, Russia’s Alrosa, is targeting new opportunities in gem cutting at a time when the market is showing signs of starting to stabilize, Mining Weekly reports.
According to CEO Sergey Ivanov, the company, which typically hasn’t promoted stones outside Russia, contributed $25 million to the...
