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Economy

Kremlin 'considering stimulus plan for Russian economy'

The Kremlin is reportedly considering a stimulus plan to revive Russia's battered economy that would support - among others - the car industry, railways, construction and agriculture.

10/02/2016

Russia

Moscow demolishes illegal metro kiosks in night of long shovels

Moscow has begun the large-scale demolition of kiosks and small shopping centres. Sergei Shogurov, head of the capital’s real estate inspectorate

09/02/2016

Economy

To Russia with cash: Chinese tourists offset fall in Western visitors

Russia is enjoying a tourism boom of Chinese visitors who have become the largest group of foreign visitors with numbers more than doubling last year compared with 2014.

09/02/2016

Cuba

East meets West: Patriarch Kirill and Pope Francis to talk in Cuba

East is to join West in a historic meeting between the heads of the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches in Cuba.

05/02/2016

Culture news

Russia's Pussy Riot mocks prosecutor general Yury Chaika in new video

Russian ‘punk’ band Pussy Riot has released a video for a new rap-like protest song. In ‘Chaika’, the all-girl collective takes on the Kremlin and

05/02/2016

Syria

Civilians flee Aleppo as Syrian army and Russian air power lay siege

Ancient armies fought here, but now modern weapons are beginning to encircle Aleppo, and the city is being hit remorselessly from the air by the

05/02/2016

Ukraine

Life on the frontline in Ukraine a year on from Minsk peace deal

The scars of conflict run deep in eastern Ukraine and not just through the ruined homes. Zolotoe 3 is a village in the Luhansk region just two

03/02/2016

Economy

Russian recession set to deepen says central bank

Russia's economy is set to dip deeper into recession according to the latest central bank forecasts as the Kremlin looks at selling stakes in state owned companies.

03/02/2016

Business Series

Oil price slump hits BP and Exxon

The bad news keeps pouring out of the oil industry. BP suffered its biggest loss in 20 years and Exxon Mobil has reported its smallest quarterly profit in more than a decade.

02/02/2016

United Arab Emirates

Peace talks do not legitimise Syrian rebel groups, says Russia

Moscow has agreed that two Syrian rebel groups taking part in peace talks are doing so on an individual basis. Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign

02/02/2016

Russia

Moscow's homeless living in sewers to escape the cold

Homelessness is on the rise in the capital as the Russian economy suffers from the falling price of oil, its main export.

31/01/2016

Russia

12 dead in suspected arson attack in Moscow

A criminal investigation is underway after fire crews found 12 bodies in the wreckage of a burning building in Moscow. Arson is suspected after the

31/01/2016

Turkey

Turkey's Erdogan threatens 'consequences' for Moscow, saying Russian jet violated its airspace

The Turkish government said on Saturday that a Russian fighter jet had violated its airspace on Friday. Moscow denied the accusation. Turkey’s

31/01/2016

Turkey

Turkey says Russia violated its airspace, Erdogan calls for meeting with Putin

The Turkish government has announced that a Russian Sukhoi 34 fighter jet violated Turkish airspace on Friday despite several radar warnings. “We are

30/01/2016

Economy

Russia to talk to OPEC about pumping less oil to boost prices

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak has confirmed that Saudi Arabia had proposed oil producing countries cut production by up to 5 percent each in order to support weak oil prices.

28/01/2016

Germany

Germany warns Russia against using teen rape case as propaganda

Berlin has warned Moscow not to make political capital of a case involving the alleged abduction and rape by migrants of a 13-year-old girl from a

27/01/2016

Business Line

Oil prices to stay low, Russia suffers

The World Bank has slashed its forecast for oil prices, saying the cost of a barrel of crude will stay near the current lows for the rest of 2016

27/01/2016

World News

World still three minutes from 'apocalypse' according Doomsday Clock

The “Doomsday Clock” which measures the likelihood of a global catastrophe is remaining at three minutes-to midnight – with midnight symbolising

27/01/2016

Norway

Refugees in legal limbo as Norway and Russia argue over their fate

Norway’s “attempts to deport hundreds of asylum seekers to Russia“http://www.euronews.com/2016/01/20/norway-sends-syrian-refugees-back-to-russia/

27/01/2016

Economy

Hopes of a supply cut deal push up oil prices

Crude prices rose on Tuesday on hopes that OPEC and non-OPEC producers may be edging closer to a deal to pump less oil and address a supply glut.

26/01/2016