- 19:19 21/08/2013
Changing the national accounting standards that Russia uses will mean a significant nominal increase in the value of the country's gross domestic product, the head of Russia’s State Statistics Service said in an interview published Wednesday by the RBC newspaper.
- 13:18 21/08/2013
The earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11 will have serious consequences for the global economy and nuclear energy.
- 23:16 20/08/2013
Russia’s customs authorities have notified Ukraine that extra customs procedures for Ukrainian goods had been scrapped days after being introduced, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Ministry of Revenues and Duties said Tuesday.
- 21:04 20/08/2013
Russian airline Transaero has added to its list of partners offering connecting flights in the United States by signing an interline agreement with California-based Virgin America, according to an official statement from Transaero released Tuesday.
- 16:20 20/08/2013
Akron, one of Russia's largest mineral fertilizer producers, reported an IFRS net profit of 5.236 billion rubles ($158.6 million) in January-June 2013, down 20 percent from the same period last year, the company said Tuesday.
- 14:53 20/08/2013
The Moscow police said Tuesday it had arrested fraudsters who sold fake bank guarantees worth a total 1 billion rubles ($30 million) to state contractors in Russia.
- 12:56 20/08/2013
Belarusian national air carrier Belavia will suspend flights to Egypt from September as its Russian tour agency partner is no longer selling trips to the country, the carrier said on Tuesday.
- 20:13 19/08/2013
Russia’s gross domestic product grew just 1.4 percent in the first half of the current year, compared with 4.5 percent last year, the Rosstat federal statistics service said Monday.
- 00:20 17/08/2013
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- 22:02 16/08/2013
Failure by luxury brands to provide Russian language websites “significantly handicaps” online sales in Russia, one of the world’s fastest growing luxury goods consumer markets, industry news website Luxury Daily reported Friday.
- 20:56 16/08/2013
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych on Friday discussed the “customs processing” in a telephone conversation, the Kremlin said.1
- 15:13 16/08/2013
A Chinese company has applied to register “Snowden” as a trademark for innovative electric car technology that it claims is as dramatic as US intelligence fugitive Edward Snowden's leaked secrets, the South China Morning Post reported.
- 23:08 15/08/2013
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov ordered his government on Thursday to resolve issues with Russia’s Customs Service that have led to a backup of Ukrainian goods on the border, said the Ukrainian government's envoy for cooperation with Russia.
- 22:41 15/08/2013
- 07:51 15/08/2013
Fitch Ratings has affirmed Russia’s long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) at ‘BBB’ with a stable outlook, the international ratings agency has reported.
- 17:30 14/08/2013
A Russian man who tricked a bank into signing a deal with him on his own terms has reached an out-of-court settlement with the credit institution, whose owner previously threatened to have him jailed for fraud, the bank said Wednesday.
- 16:21 14/08/2013
The ruble was trading Wednesday above 33 rubles to the dollar, its lowest level against the greenback in almost four years, after the Russian Central Bank widened the ruble’s trading corridor in the latest official move allowing the Russian currency to weaken.
- 16:15 14/08/2013
Kazakhstan’s Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC), one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of ferroalloys, iron ore, alumina and aluminum, on Wednesday reported a net profit of $148 million in the first half of 2013, down 69.4% on the same period last year.
- 00:01 14/08/2013
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