"The Economic Development Ministry maintains its inflation forecast for 2025 at 7.6%, but this could be adjusted to below 7% if the current dynamics are maintained," the government said, reiterating ...

MOSCOW. July 18 (Interfax) - Russian Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev discussed oil and gas supplies to China with National Energy Administration (NEA) head Wang Hongzhi, as well as the development of ...

Due to its need for external financing of $40 billion, Ukraine expects the IMF to continue and increase its financial support in 2026, media outlets quoted Verkhovna Rada Budgetary Committee head ...

ALMATY. July 18 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan's national railway operator, Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), will hold an initial public offering by the end of this year, Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov said.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has appointed Rustem Umerov secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council, Ukrainian media reported on Friday. Umerov was defense minister in ...

MOSCOW. July 18 (Interfax) - Cyprus-based Ros Agro Plc, the former holding structure of the Rusagro group, announced the start of the process to delist its GDRs from the Moscow and Astana stock ...

ST. PETERSBURG. July 18 (Interfax) - Rosatom's engineering division, the AEM Spetsstal plant, has commissioned an electroslag remelting production facility, an Interfax correspondent present at the ...

MOSCOW. July 18 (Interfax) - The WhatsApp messenger is the most popular service in Russia, yet it has certain duties under Russian laws, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

MOSCOW. July 18 (Interfax) - Poland will stop the admission of all categories of Ukrainian refugees to collective accommodation centers on November 1, 2025, and only protected groups, such as ...

MOSCOW. July 18 (Interfax) - The Kremlin agrees that "some dynamism should be added" to the negotiating process on Ukraine settlement, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.

CHELYABINSK. July 18 (Interfax) - Steelmakers in Chelyabinsk Region shipped product to Iraq in the first half of 2025 for the first time in almost three years, the regional customs service told ...

MOSCOW. July 18 (Interfax) - Roustam Tariko, the founder and chairman of Roust Group, one of Russia's largest producers and distributors of alcoholic beverages, has acquired 65.08% of shares in ...