Friday, June 26, 2026
Negotiation process on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project between Germany and the United States have progressed, according to German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Sputnik News reports. The minister did not say if a compromise on the issue might be expected during the talks between United States President Joe Biden...
Alexander Shokhin, head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, says that the European Commission's proposed carbon border fee plan imposes EU regulatory norms on other nations and completely contradicts fundamental objectives of the Paris Agreement, TASS reports. The European Commission's cross-border carbon tax plan essentially duplicates aspects of...
Sheremetyevo Airport's Terminal C will resume its flight operations on July 23, with Aeroflot's international flights from Terminal D transferred to Terminal C instead, the airport's press service said. In the spring of 2017, Terminal C was closed for reconstruction. Afterward, it was almost completely rebuilt and reopened in January...
Russian President Vladimir Putin reminded US climate envoy John Kerry on Wednesday that Moscow and Washington had a similar interest in combating climate change, the Kremlin claimed, in a rare area of agreement between the foes. "The climate crisis is one of the areas where Russia and the US have...
Russia must prepare itself for significant income losses as a result of a worldwide drive toward renewable energy and a corresponding drop in demand for fossil fuels, said Finance Minister Anton Siluanov in an interview with Bloomberg.  The growing proportion of renewables in the global energy market, along with carbon...
Russia reported its highest-ever daily death toll from the coronavirus since the epidemic began,  on Wednesday, according to the country's Covid-19 task group. On Wednesday, Russia reported 23,827 new coronavirus cases and 786 deaths as the country tackles the rapidly spreading Delta variety discovered in India. Tuesday's death toll was 780,...
According to a joint statement released on Tuesday, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and the Serum Institute of India (SII) will begin manufacturing of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine in September. "The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Russia's sovereign wealth fund, and Serum Institute of India (SII), the world's...
The Bank of Russia will make it easier for Russian stock issuers to enter overseas markets. The relevant draft directive was made available for public comment on the regulator's website. "The Bank of Russia eliminates stake limitations in shares of Russian issuers whose placement and public circulation are expected outside...
The technology created in Russia to combat the spread of the coronavirus illness has proven its efficiency and performance, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Tuesday. He observed that "the system itself of working on coronavirus countermeasures is organized differently in different nations." "The system we established in our...
The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project's construction work might be completed by August, according to Matthias Warnig, managing director of Nord Stream 2 AG, the project's operator, in an interview with the Handelsblatt newspaper on Sunday. "We think that construction work will be done by the end of August,"...