MOSCOW. April 21 (Interfax) - The export duty on Russian wheat will drop 17.1% to 1,832 rubles per tonne on April 23 from 2,210.1 rubles per tonne in the previous duty period, the Agriculture Ministry ...

Ukraine ended this year's heating season with underground storage facilities filled at 2.22% of their capacity, versus 11.12 TW/h (3.388 bcm) of gas, or 11.12% of the capacity in storage at the end of ...

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has welcomed his Kazakh counterpart Olzhas Bektenov to the House of Government in Moscow. Bektenov is paying an official visit to Russia. Russian-Kazakh ...

The Central Bank in March confirmed its February inflation forecast of 7.0-8.0% for 2025 and 4% for 2026. The consensus forecast of economists polled by Interfax at the start of April projects that ...

The CBR raised its GDP growth forecast for 2025 to 1.0-2.0% from 0.5-1.5%, but lowered its forecast for 2026 to 0.5-1.5% from 1.0-2.0%. Analysts polled by Interfax at the beginning of April forecast ...

Talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, Sultan of Oman, who will be paying a state visit to Russia, will be held in Moscow on April 22, the Kremlin press ...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will pay a state visit to Beijing on April 22-24, a representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday. "The visit will be paid at the invitation of ...

MOSCOW. April 21 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the government to regularly update a list of unfriendly countries, which reduced their business operations in Russia, and ...

ST. PETERSBURG. April 18 (Interfax) - The Russian government has proposed transferring shares of five federally owned companies to JSC Severnaya Verf Shipyard , which is part of United Shipbuilding ...

ARKHANGELSK. April 18 (Interfax) - To make a future Trans-Arctic shipping route one of Russia's key transport lanes, its Arctic seaports should be integrated with railway and road shipping ...

MINSK. April 18 (Interfax) - The administration of the Belarusian National Academy of Sciences has come up with an initiative to implement of a Belarusian-Russian microelectronics program, which has ...

MOSCOW. April 18 (Interfax) - Sixty-one percent of Russians identify as Orthodox Christian now, according to a poll conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM). The results of the poll were ...