The Russian Science Foundation plans to provide grants of up to 22 billion rubles ($392.4 million) in 2018, said the head of one of the largest organizations for basic research support in Russia, Alexander Khlunov.
In an interview with Izvestiya, Khlunov said the programs financed by the foundation brought changes...
As Beijing released more crude import quotas to independent refiners, Russia remained the top crude oil supplier to China in January, Chinese official data shows
The data reveal a strong beginning of 2018, after the start-up of an expanded trans-Siberia pipeline, Reuters reports. Angola and Iraq took the second and third...
The United States called on Turkey to reconsider its decision to purchase Russian S-400 defense system saying that the country might face sanctions. The call comes amid a recent agreement between Ankara and Washington to enhance dialogue and mend diplomatic fences. However, Turkish officials ruled out the possibility of direct...
The case of a Russian hacker arrested in the Czech Republic and wanted both by the U.S. and his motherland is threatening to rile internal Czech politics, Reuters reports.
On Friday, President Milos Zeman urged Justice Minister Robert Pelikan to extradite the computer hacker to Russia rather than the United...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Washington will impose new sanctions on Russia within weeks, Reuters reported.
Speaking at a White House briefing Friday, Mnuchin said that the Treasury Department may choose some sanctions targets based on information developed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian meddling in the...
Moscow didn’t make a great first impression on experienced Chinese tourist Maggie Xu and the two friends she was traveling with. But once they had settled in, the trio found themselves charmed by the sparkling lights lining the pavements of Tverskaya Street – Moscow’s Champs-Elysees.
“On that cold winter night,...
U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller filed additional criminal charges Thursday against President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman and his business associate, escalating the pressure and stakes in the investigation over Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections, CNN reports.
The filing adds allegations of tax evasion and bank fraud and...
The economic ministers of Russia and Japan agreed Thursday to cooperate more in increasing productivity using information technology, ahead of a summit expected in May, Kyodo News reported.
The economic cooperation package proposed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2016 was an "important cornerstone of Japan-Russian ties," said Japan's Economy,...
Commodity trader Glencore plans to seal a deal to sell a 14% stake in Russia’s Rosneft oil company to the China Energy Company Limited (CEFC) by the end of the first half of 2018, RBC reports.
The Switzerland-based company owns 19.5% of Rosneft, along with the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA)...
Russia has overtaken China and is now the fifth-biggest sovereign holder of gold in the world, Bloomberg reports.
In January, the country’s central bank increased its stockpile by almost 20 metric tons to 1,857 tons, topping the People’s Bank of China’s reported 1,843 tons. While Russia has increased its holdings...
