Friday, April 19, 2024
The Central Bank of Russia is dubious of the notion of purchasing cryptocurrencies as an investment, according to Sergey Shvetsov, the regulator's first deputy chairman. He went on to say that the Central Bank would not help increase the availability of bitcoin for untrained investors, Kommersant writes. According to Mr....
The extension of the OPEC+ transaction is logical since the balance of supply and demand in the oil market has not yet been reached, said the head of Gazprom Neft Alexander Dyukov in an interview with Rossiya-24 TV Channel on Monday, as reported by TASS. "The balance of supply and...
The record streak of the "Avangard" striker Kirill Semyonov at KHL was interrupted at 291 matches, as informed by Bookmaker Ratings. Semyonov was not included in the teams' application form for the fourth match of the Gagarin Cup final series against CSKA. The player was injured in the previous...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed the head of the country’s tax office Mikhail Mishustin as Prime Minister to replace the outgoing Dmitry Medvedev late on Wednesday, state-run news agency TASS reported. It was the last major political move in a dramatic news day for Russia, after Putin announced a major...
Authorities reported Monday that at least six people were killed and others were wounded when a student opened fire on a Russian university campus, Moscow Times writes. Students at Perm State University in Perm, some 1,300 kilometers east of Moscow, are seen leaping out of second-floor windows to escape the...
Five deputy chief editors resigned from Vedomosti on Monday, after the newspaper’s parent company made Andrey Shmarov’s appointment as editor-in-chief permanent, Meduza reports. Dmitry Simakov, Boris Safronov, Filipp Strekin, Kirill Kharatyan, and Alexander Gubsky all stepped down in protest. Gubsky had worked at Vedomosti since it was founded in 1999....
The "Search for Lost and Found Animals" service on the official portal of the Moscow Mayor and Moscow Government (mos.ru) is the first city centralized service in Russia for finding lost animals. Those who have lost a pet can post an ad and inform about the missing animal via...
A Russian artist unveiled four giant paintings of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in central Istanbul on Saturday, saying he wanted to show the good ties between Ankara and Moscow despite differences over Syria and other issues, Reuters reported. However shortly after Alexander Donskoy unveiled his “Putin is Russia?” project in...
Sheremetyevo International Airport has summed up the results of production activities for August and eight months of 2021, the press service of the airport said. The number of passengers served since the beginning of the year amounted to 19 million 15 thousand people, which is 41.4% higher than the same...
U.S. warplanes intercepted four Russian reconnaissance aircraft near Alaska on Saturday, U.S. commanders said, as cited by The Moscow Times. The Russian Tu-142's came within 65 nautical miles south of Alaska's Aleutian island chain and "loitered" in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) for eight hours. But they stayed in...