The first international online forum Smart Cities Moscow had 86 speakers from Russia, China, Switzerland, Canada, Spain, the United States, Sweden, and others, while more than 193,000 people participated in the panel discussions and sessions.
"Recent years have especially shown how important it is to develop the IT infrastructure of...
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Viktoria Abramchenko stated at the 9th Nevsky International Ecological Congress in St. Petersburg that the Russian government is working on modifications to laws that might restrict the manufacture of non-recyclable plastic materials in Russia, The Moscow Times reports.
According to the administration, new measures will...
The profitability of the Russian banking industry has remained stable throughout 2019, the first year of solid growth since the 2014 oil price shock, which drove the country's economy into stagnation.
According bne IntelliNews, April was also the month that the pandemic shock hit, and as the graph illustrates, banking...
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Sunday that he is going to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin to honor and recognize human rights when the two presidents meet in June, Reuters reports.
Biden who held a speech for Memorial Day, announced that he is meeting his Russian counterpart in a...
According to the anti-coronavirus crisis center, Russia has reported 8,475 additional confirmed COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours, increasing the overall number of cases to 5,071,917.
According to the crisis center, new infections are increasing at a rate of 0.17 percent every year, TASS reports.
In the last 24 hours,...
The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), which will take place from June 2 to 5, 2021, is expected to attract 2,000 foreign attendees, according to Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov, who spoke to RBC TV on Monday, as Russian agency TASS reported.
The United States, Qatar, and...
Russians began to actively use debit cards with overdraft in April: the debt on such "plastic" for the year grew 3.4 times, and the number - 2.8 times, according to RIA Novosti, citing the credit bureau Equifax.
Banks offer overdraft cards, which the customer can use as his own cash, withdrawing...
According to the most recent RosStat numbers, Russia's jobless rate decreased to 5.2 percent, its sixth straight month of decline since peaking at 6.4 percent in August last year.
At the present rate, unemployment should fall below 5% in the next two months, returning to pre-crisis levels, bne IntelliNews reports.
According...
Ahead of a summit between the nations' presidents on Friday, Russia called the United States' decision not to enter the Open Skies weapons control deal, which enables unarmed surveillance flights over member states, a "political mistake."
The original decision to leave the accord was made by President Donald Trump's administration...
Russia has recorded 404 coronavirus deaths in the previous 24 hours, up from 402 the day before. The total number of people dead has now reached 120,406.
Some 2.39 percent of coronavirus patients in Russia have died, according to TASS, citing the anti-coronavirus crisis center.
There have been 56 deaths in...
