- 20:44 08/08/2014
Hollywood star Mickey Rourke may take part in a presentation of a clothing brand famous for selling T-Shirts with prints of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on August 11.
- 16:45 08/08/2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin will announce the start of exploration drilling on West Alpha platform, operating on the most remote oil well, Universitetskaya-1, in the Kara Sea, on August 9, the president’s press service reported Friday.
- 05:19 08/08/2014
Russia’s ban on imports of Western products will not include foreign pharmaceuticals, an aid to Russia’s Prime Minister Gennady Onishchenko said.
- 18:37 07/08/2014
The world's third-largest consumer goods company Unilever told RIA Novosti Thursday it was not concerned about the effect of Russia’s foods import embargo on its revenues.
- 16:42 07/08/2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev the coordination of trade and economy after Russia imposed food import embargo against a number of Western countries, the Kremlin’s press center said on Thursday.
- 16:05 07/08/2014
Russia’s so-called advanced development zones in the Far East will start functioning in 2015, Russia’s Far East Development Minister told President Vladimir Putin on Thursday.
- 14:29 07/08/2014
Moscow and Minsk will discuss plans to boost Belarusian food imports to Russia next week in the wake of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s food ban, Belarusian Agriculture Minister Leonid Zayats said Thursday.
- 14:29 07/08/2014
Moscow hopes that economic pragmatism will guide political decisions taken by the West, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday after announcing a sweeping ban on food imports from countries that sanctioned Russia.
- 11:54 07/08/2014
Russia’s economic cooperation with the Asia-Pacific Region has gained in importance following its split with the West, Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Nebenzya told RIA Novosti Thursday.
- 09:08 07/08/2014
Brazil’s meat and poultry industry could compensate for US chicken deliveries to Russia after Moscow banned all agricultural products from the United States in response to stiffer economic penalties, according to Francisco Turra, president of the Brazilian Poultry Association.
- 06:29 07/08/2014
Russia’s boycott on the imports of agricultural and food products from the countries that imposed sanctions against Moscow can have negative consequences not only for the production distribution, but on the prices on the European market.
- 04:10 07/08/2014
Argentinian meat producers are interested in increasing their exports to Russia, but diplomatic work is needed to lift export restrictions in the country, the head of Argentina’s chamber of meats industry and trade (CICCRA) Miguel Schiariti said.
- 02:32 07/08/2014
President Putin signed a decree Wednesday, banning for a year imports of agricultural and food products from countries that imposed sanctions on Russia. The government is expected to announce the complete “black lists” of imports on Thursday.
- 02:15 07/08/2014
The government of Ukraine will consider the draft proposals imposing sanctions against Russia this Friday, August 8, Ukraine’s Minister of Justice Pavlo Petrenko said.
- 00:10 07/08/2014
In a phone conversation, Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have positively assessed the resumption of the work by the Contact Group on Ukraine, and the work of the OSCE observers who are currently at checkpoints on Russia’s border with Ukraine, the Kremlin press service said Wednesday in a statement.
- 22:06 06/08/2014
Japan has imposed more sanctions against Russia, though they are a lot milder than the ones introduced by the US. The new sanctions adopted by the cabinet of Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will freeze the assets of certain groups and individuals and restrict imports of products made in Crimea.
- 21:23 06/08/2014
Russian food retailers will substitute foreign suppliers with domestic producers in light of temporary restrictions on food imports to Russia, an industry official said Wednesday.
- 21:06 06/08/2014
European airlines’ shares fell by 3 percent amid reports on possible Russia’s response to Western sanctions after Dobrolet airline was included on the EU sanctions blacklist, according to the data from European stock exchanges.
- 20:44 06/08/2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Wednesday banning imports of agricultural products from countries that imposed sanctions on Russia for one year, the Kremlin press service said.
