Media: OPEC and non-OPEC countries to meet in Moscow on Dec. 10
Moscow will see the meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC countries to discuss the oil production cut on Dec. 10, Reuters reported on Dec. 2 citing OPEC sources. Bloomberg also said earlier today the OPEC and...
View ArticleRussian court freezes $140 million of IKEA funds
The Krasninsky District Court in the Smolensk Region has ordered 9.3 billion rubles ($140 million) of IKEA Mos assets to be frozen, RIA Novosti news agency reports. The court satisfied the request of...
View ArticlePhoto of the day: 19th-century portrait of Nicholas II discovered
A full-size portrait of Russia's last tsar Nicholas II was put on display on Dec. 1 at the Museum of Applied Arts of the Stieglitz Art and Industry Academy. The painting (1896) by Ilya Galkin was...
View ArticleInstaweek: 10th most instagrammed location worldwide is in Russia
Фото опубликовано ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Elena Pestrova (@pestrova) Авг 12 2016 в 9:25 PDT In the list of the world's most geotagged cities of 2016 Russia is mentioned twice: Moscow is in the third place right...
View ArticleFormer Reagan assistant 'requests' Russian citizenship
American economist and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for economic policy under Ronald Reagan (1981-1982) has facetiously requested a Russian passport. Paul Craig Roberts...
View ArticleMaking sense of Noah’s Ark: Life in a Moscow university dormitory
A young man coming of age in the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, I was about to start studying Russian, without any signs of Russophilia, or any Russian ancestry, or any particular love for...
View ArticleMaloyaroslavets: Where Napoleon's fate was sealed
Photographs by William Brumfield Few historical events are more widely known than the catastrophic retreat of Napoleon’s Grand Armee from Moscow in October 1812. Less known is the role in this...
View ArticleHow a Russian spy outfoxed the British in 19th century Afghanistan
In the first few decades of the 19th century, the Russian and British Empires were increasingly on a collision course. While the former was expanding southwards into Central Asia, the latter already...
View ArticleLavrov and Kerry discuss settlement in Syria at conference in Rome
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry have discussed settlement in Syria on the sidelines of the international conference on Mediterranean problems held in Rome,...
View Article15 ‘Made in Russia’ holiday gifts that are not khokhloma
1. A piece of imperial porcelain Products of the Imperial Porcelain Factory. / Source: Valeriy Melnikov/RIA Novosti Looking for something beautiful, fragile and tasteful with a lot of history? Try a...
View ArticleRussia’s losses from African swine fever exceeding $ 635 mln over 8 years
African Swine Fever (ASF) has inflicted a loss of over 40 billion rubles, or $ 634 million on the Russian hog raising industry over a period of eight years, the Director General of the National Union...
View ArticleJapan and Russia agree to increase fishing quotas for 2017
Japan and Russia have agreed to increase fishing quotas in exclusive economic zones of the two countries for 2017, Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said on Dec. 3. The ministry...
View ArticlePart of Progress cargo spacecraft found in southern Siberia
A part of the Progress MS-04 spacecraft has been found in Tuva’s Ulu-Khemsky district in Russia’s southern Siberia, a spokesman for the Emergencies Ministry’s local department told TASS on Dec. 3. "We...
View ArticleLukoil interested in participating in oil projects in Iran
Lukoil is interested in participating in the projects in Iran if it gets the right to manage a part of oil, but would not agree to exclusively service, Lukoil’s Vice President Leonid Fedun said in an...
View ArticleLavrov: Joint projects with Japan to bring relations to new level
Russia and Japan continue the work on the priority projects, implementation of which will bring the relations to a new level, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at the beginning of a meeting...
View ArticleFirst Russian sappers arrive in Syria to demine Aleppo
The first group of the Russian sappers has arrived in Syria's Hmeymim base and soon will begin demining the liberated districts of eastern Aleppo, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Dec. 3....
View ArticleErdogan to Putin: Russia and Turkey should trade in national currencies
Turkey has suggested to Russia that bilateral trade should be in the ruble and lira, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said unveiling a new shopping mall in Istanbul on Dec. 3. "I told (Russian President...
View ArticleYuri Bashmet and orchestra perform in Moscow metro
Russian conductor and violinist Yuri Bashmet and his Moscow Soloists chamber orchestra performing at the Moscow Metro station Park Kultury on Dec. 3 night.
View ArticleBoxer Gassiev beats Lebedev to become IBF cruiserweight world champion
Russian boxer Murat Gassiev beat his fellow countryman, unified cruiserweight champion Denis Lebedev, winning the title of IBF cruiserweight champion, in Moscow on Dec. 3. Gassiev overpowered Lebedev,...
View ArticleEurovision 2017 may take place in Moscow - Bild newspaper
Organizers of the Eurovision song contest consider Moscow as a possible host city for the competition due in 2017 because the Ukrainian authorities are facing problems with organization of the event,...
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