Saturday, May 4, 2024
The largest producer of wood pulp, which is needed to make toilet paper, has warned that the demand for shipping containers could delay deliveries to producers, with the Suez Canal blockage only making things worse, RT reported. The Brazil-based company, Suzano Sa, which produces around a third of the world’s...
Russia’s first electric car, the Zetta, could go into serial production by the end of this year if the company completes certification this fall, Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov said on Friday in an interview with Auto Mail.ru. "The project of Zetta economy class four-wheel drive electric car...
Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine ensures quick recovery without severe symptoms in case of contagion, the Gamaleya Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology said on Saturday. The Sputnik V developer commented as news broke out that Argentine President Alberto Fernandez, who had been inoculated with the Russian vaccine earlier, tested...
The price of gold is set to skyrocket in the next months amid an escalating U.S.-China trade war, and Russia, which has been stockpiling the precious metal, is set to profit, RFE/RL reports. While upgrading Russia’s debt rating, credit rating agency Fitch said last week that the country “will continue...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has upgraded its forecast for economic growth in Russia for the second time this year, and now expects GDP to gain as much as 3.8% in 2021, RT informed. In its April report, the IMF raised its projections for Russia’s GDP by 0.8% compared to...
Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has proposed the privatization of budget airline Pobeda, part of the country’s national air carrier Aeroflot Group, RBC reported last week. In a letter sent by the head of FAS Igor Artemyev to the Transportation Ministry in July, he argues that Pobeda is cutting...
Russia’s MiG-31 fighter jet was scrambled to escort a U.S. RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft over the Pacific Ocean along the southeastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Friday. According to the ministry, Russian airspace control systems detected an aerial target flying over the...
Tens of thousands of dollars were stolen from some of at least 40,000 ATMs in Russia which accepted counterfeit bills, Kommersant reported. According to the business newspaper, the issue reportedly affects 40,000 ATMs made by a single manufacturer, U.S.-based NCR Corp, out of the 135,000 ATMs that accept cash in...
The Russian Charge d’Affaires Sergey Koshelev was summoned to the US Department of State on Friday where he strongly rejected groundless allegations against Russia on destabilizing actions, Russia’s embassy in the United States wrote on its Twitter page on Saturday, Tass informed. "Today, the Russian Charge d’Affaires used the meeting in...
The Russian manned spacecraft Soyuz MS-14 with no crew but an anthropomorphic robot on board landed in its designated area in the steppes of Kazakhstan on Saturday, TASS reported. "Landing done," said a spokesperson for the central research and development institute of machine building (TsNIIMash), which incorporates the Russian Mission...