Eastern Europe

MOSCOW. March 23 (Interfax) - Russia has managed to redirect oil and petroleum products exports and is having no problems selling them, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told reporters.He also said the country's refineries were working steadily. &...

MOSCOW. March 23 (Interfax) - The Russian Economic Development Ministry will revise the current forecast for the average ruble exchange rate for 2023 down, taking current exchange rates and new expectations for oil prices into account, Economic Developmen...

YEREVAN. March 23 (Interfax) - The Armenian government decided on Thursday to extend the timeframe for utilizing the Armenian (Metsamor) nuclear power plant until 2036.The country's Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure was instruc...

MOSCOW. March 23 (Interfax) - The global oil market is currently prone to volatility, and Russia and other OPEC + countries continue to monitor the situation, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said in an interview with Rossiya-24 TV channel.&#...

MOSCOW. March 23 (Interfax) - The World Bank estimates that Ukraine will need at least $411 billion to rebuild, which is 2.6 times the country's 2022 GDP, based on a country needs assessment as of February 24, 2023.The assessment was carried out joint...

MOSCOW. March 23 (Interfax) - Sovcomflot has increased its offering of three-year bonds series 001P-01 denominated in Chinese yuan from at least CNY 2 billion to CNY 2.6 billion, a financial market source told Interfax.Final yield guidance for the first c...

ST. PETERSBURG. March 23 (Interfax) - Ivan Mironov has been appointed general director of the former Nissan plant in St. Petersburg, Nissan Manufacturing Rus LLC, the press service of the plant's new owner Avtovaz said.Mironov worked in the Russian Tr...

MOSCOW. March 23 (Interfax) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal and World Bank Vice President Anna Bjerde have discussed the implementation of joint projects providing support for Ukraine."In particular, we outlined prospects for extending the Pe...

MOSCOW. March 23 (Interfax) - Despite the Ukrainian authorities' demand for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) to leave the Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra by March 29, the monks living there will not be able to do so, the monastery's abbot Metropolitan ...

MOSCOW. March 23 (Interfax) - A subdivision for the certification of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or drones, has been formed in Russia's Aviation Registration Office, which is subordinate to the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya), the agen...

MOSCOW. March 23 (Interfax) - The incorporation of Ukrainian railways into the European TEN-T railway network ensures access to EU assistance instruments, and the integration procedures should involve railway network development projects in Ukraine worth ...

MOSCOW. March 23 (Interfax) - The Russian government will soon endorse the Russian-Chinese Plan 2030 as a follow-up to the joint statement adopted by the presidents of the two countries on Tuesday, dealing with the mid-term development of the two states&#...

KAZAN. March 20 (Interfax) - The project for the construction of the Deng Xiaoping logistics complex which is focused on trade with China, is expected to attract investments worth 30 billion rubles, the press service of the Alabuga Special Economic Zone t...

MOSCOW. March 20 (Interfax) - Chinese President Xi Jinping has said that he has chosen Russia for the first visit after his reelection, just as he did ten years ago, because Russia and China are good neighbors.Exactly ten years ago, when Xi first took off...

ASTANA. March 20 (Interfax) - According to the preliminary results of the March 19 early elections to the Majilis in Kazakhstan, six parties passed the 5% electoral threshold required for making it to the parliament, Kazakh Central Elections Commission Ch...

MOSCOW. March 20 (Interfax) - China has in the past decade of Xi Jinping's leadership made a colossal leap forward and Russia is even slightly envious of it, Russian President Vladimir Putin said."Over the past years, China made a colossal leap fo...

MOSCOW. March 20 (Interfax) - Polyus is in talks with several alternative exchanges in order to organize trading in depositary receipts, Russia's largest gold producer said in a statement.The miner confirms its intention to ensure the admission of dep...

MOSCOW. March 20 (Interfax) - Ukraine will ship 30,000 tonnes of wheat to Yemen and Ethiopia each under the Grain from Ukraine and the United Nations World Food Program (UN WFP) programs, respectively, the Ukrainian ministry of restoration said on Monday....

SAINT PETERSBURG. March 20 (Interfax) - The First Container Terminal company, or FCT, located in the Great Port of St. Petersburg, and part of the Global Ports group, has started servicing a new regular container service of direct deliveries from China, t...

MOSCOW. March 20 (Interfax) - Energoatom, the operator of Ukrainian nuclear power plants, and Canada's Cameco have concluded agreements on the use of Ukrainian uranium in the production of nuclear fuel for all nuclear power plants in Ukraine."In a...

MOSCOW. March 20 (Interfax) - Evraz will not be able partially or fully to repay the issue of dollar-denominated Eurobonds on time despite the group having sufficient liquidity, the company said in a statement.The Eurobonds mature on March 20, 2023, the i...

MOSCOW. March 20 (Interfax) - Russia will be ready to supply grain free of charge to African countries in need in the amount equal to previous grain exports to these states under the Black Sea Grain Initiative if Moscow decides not to prolong this deal af...

MOSCOW. March 20 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian government has begun evaluating national legislation for compliance with the European Union's laws and plans to present the results of this assessment before the end of May, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minist...

ASTANA. March 20 (Interfax) - Voting in the Kazakh early elections to the Majilis and maslikhats has been smooth, but gross procedural irregularities have been observed in the vote count and tabulation of results, Eoghan Murphy, head of the Organization f...

MOSCOW. March 20 (Interfax) - Power generation in Ukraine is sufficient to fully cover demand for electricity nationwide, and the completion of some planned repairs at thermal power plants has increased available capacity reserves, Ukrainian Energy Minist...

MOSCOW. March 20 (Interfax) - Russia will suspend its participation in the Black Sea grain deal on May 18 if no progress is made toward the implementation of its Russian component, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday."A future decision on exte...

MOSCOW. March 20 (Interfax) - On Monday, the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada supported Sergei Shkarlet's resignation as education and science minister, Ukrainian media reported with reference to parliamentarian Alexei Goncharenko of the European Solidarity f...

MOSCOW. March 20 (Interfax) - In January 2023, Russia came out on top in natural gas supplies to China in terms of total exports by pipeline and in liquefied form, China's customs service said in a statement.Total supplies of Russian fuel amounted to ...

MOSCOW. March 20 (Interfax) - Moldova's Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Nicu Popescu has said that the Moldovan authorities will impose sanctions on Russian citizens involved in the adoption of the decision on the special military...

MOSCOW. March 20 (Interfax) - Polymetal sold the Tarutinskoye subsidiary, operator of the East Tarutinskoye copper-gold project Kazakhstan, for $7 million in December, the Russian gold miner said in a financial report to International Financial Reporting ...

MOSCOW. March 20 (Interfax) - The scope of activities of ROSSWIFT, the Russian National SWIFT Association, will expand to include the CBR's SPFS Financial Message Transmission System and the National Chinese Bank Transfer System known as CIPS, or the ...

MOSCOW. March 17 (Interfax) - Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said he had twice invited the Danish charge d'affaires ad interim and offered a joint investigation into the Nord Stream gas pipeline blasts but received a vague answer."Perhaps,...

MOSCOW. March 17 (Interfax) - The chief executives of major Russian energy companies have been invited to a state dinner in honor of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Moscow and will have an opportunity to talk with their Chinese counterparts on...

MINSK. March 13 (Interfax) - Direct flights between Belarus and Iran will be resumed from March 26, Belarusian Transport and Communications Minister Alexei Avramenko said."We have agreed that direct flights between Minsk and Tehran will be resumed fro...

MOSCOW. March 13 (Interfax) - Ukraine's real gross domestic product fell 31.4% year-on-year in Q4 2022, according to preliminary data, after declining by 30.8% in Q3, Ukraine media quoted the State Statistics Service as saying.GDP fell 4.7% on a seaso...

BRUSSELS. March 13 (Interfax) - The Council of the European Union on Monday extended individual anti-Russian sanctions imposed on persons and organizations "responsible for undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independ...

VILNIUS. March 13 (Interfax) - The Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania has decided to order Internet providers this week to block IP addresses to hinder access to Russian television channels targeted by European Union sanctions.According to the g...

BAKU. March 13 (Interfax) - Investments in the development of the Turkish petrochemical complex Petkim Petrokimya Holding in 2022 reached 4.108 billion Turkish lira, or $214.6 million, the holding said.SOCAR Turkey Enerji, the Turkish subsidiary of the St...

MOSCOW. March 13 (Interfax) - Key Russian banks that cooperate with the domestic agro-industry allocated 153 billion rubles to lend for seasonal fieldwork, an increase of 25.9% year-on-year, from the beginning of the agricultural season through March 7, t...

KAZAN. March 13 (Interfax) - Tatarstan's Alabuga Special Economic Zone, or SEZ, as part of the Deng Xiaoping logistics complex project geared toward trade with China, will lay 16 km of railroad tracks to connect the future complex with Russian Railway...

MOSCOW. March 13 (Interfax) - Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has thanked power engineers for conducting repairs of power supply infrastructure elements and called on the households to be more active in joining programs for replacing conventional (i...

MOSCOW. March 13 (Interfax) - Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant , which is controlled by TVEL, the Rosatom corporation's nuclear fuel division, has won a tender called Brazil's Eletronuclear to supply of more than 100 kg of lithium-7 hydroxi...

YEREVAN. March 13 (Interfax) - MTS Armenia, a Viva-MTS brand and a subsidiary of Russia's PJSC MTS , has applied to the Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) of Armenia for permission to sell shares.PSRC press secretary Liana Azizyan told Inter...

TALLINN. March 10 (Interfax) - The Supreme Court of Estonia has declined to consider the Estonian Conservative People's Party (EKRE) claim contesting the results of electronic voting in the March 5 parliamentary election."The Constitutional Review...

MINSK. March 10 (Interfax) - BelAZ, a Belarusian manufacturer of dump trucks, has increased its share in the Russian market segment for extra-heavy-duty dump trucks to over 80%, the company's press service said in a statement."Today, BelAZ's s...

YEREVAN. March 10 (Interfax) - Washington is assisting in the work of the European Union Mission in Armenia, the U.S. embassy in Yerevan said in a statement."Ambassador [Kristina] Kvien met with the head of the European Union Mission in Armenia Markus...

MOSCOW. March 10 (Interfax) - Specialists of the DTEK energy holding have fully restored power supply in the Odessa region."DTEK specialists were working all night to repair the high-voltage equipment powering up Odessa and the Odessa region. Work was...

ASTANA. March 10 (Interfax) - The Kazakh Foreign Ministry is hoping to begin visa facilitation negotiations with the European Union shortly."We are hoping for the soonest start of negotiations with the European Union on facilitation of the visa system...

MOSCOW. March 10 (Interfax) - French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Pierre Heilbronn, former vice president for policy and partnerships at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, his special envoy for Ukraine's relief and recons...

MOSCOW. March 10 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian government has approved a draft of the Ukrainian-German intergovernmental agreement extending the bilateral agreement on cooperation in nuclear safety and security.The government made the decision on Friday, the...