Russian gold and foreign currency holdings have shed almost $30 billion or more than five percent in one week in the biggest drop since the global financial crisis amid the coronavirus pandemic and crashing oil prices. According to the latest data released by the country’s central bank, the reserves stood at $551.2 billion as of March 20, down from $581 billion a week earlier. The regulator […]
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Into an already toxic brew of political discord and hyperventilating social media, a pathogen of foreign origin arrives. To fight it, the country must unite. At the same time, the coronavirus makes us more vulnerable to manipulation, especially if people are scared and nobody seems to have good answers. Some of that manipulation is from Russia, and some from China, and while the two countries are […]
The global economic downturn due to coronavirus and the breakup of OPEC+ has sent the ruble tumbling, which could give Russia an unexpected advantage in the oil price war. While the ruble is now at its lowest level against the dollar in four years, the cheaper ruble has a silver lining for Russia’s oil producers in the oil price war for market share with Saudi Arabia. The […]
25 Mar, 2020 04:32 Residents of Severo-Kuril’sk, a small town with a population of just over 2,500 on the northern end of the Kuril Islands, are being evacuated to safety after a strong quake prompted fears of a tsunami. Source
HomeRussia News 25 Mar, 2020 03:17 Get short URL A powerful 7.5 magnitude tremor has slammed Russia’s Far East region, striking off the Kuril Islands, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Trends:Russia news Source
Russia’s top diplomat in the US has demanded the Human Rights Watch chief stops spreading misinformation about Russia’s readiness to fight Covid-19, after he touted an article claiming it’s letting the wealthy buy up ventilators. Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s envoy in Washington, has penned a scathing rebuke to the group’s executive director, Kenneth Roth, who tweeted that the Kremlin was “doing nothing to stop wealthy Russians from […]
The global market meltdown has indirectly benefited Russia’s bitcoin miners, even as the cryptocurrency’s price tumbled along with other assets. That’s because the Russian national currency has rapidly lost value, dropping from 60 rubles to the dollar to 80 in two weeks. In addition to the coronavirus pandemic weighing on all markets, the ruble has also taken a hit from the price war started by Saudi […]
Russia 20:40 GMT 21.03.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107866/14/1078661490_0:0:3160:1778_1200x675_80_0_0_80bb302fb90cdfaf577ef86bc15543af.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/russia/202003211078660997-russias-aeroflot-carrier-resumes-flights-to-dubai-starting-from-23-march/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia’s flagship carrier Aeroflot said on Saturday that it would resume flights to Dubai starting from March 23 in connection with the revocation of the decision to suspend flights on this route by the Russian authorities. “Due to the withdrawal of the Russian authorities’ decision to suspend flights on the […]
The coronavirus pandemic has popped a quadrillion-dollar financial bubble and we can expect a very deep and prolonged period of adjustment, RT’s veteran business commentator Max Keiser believes. The financial crisis, which many believe we have just entered, stems from the times of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, with the establishment of ‘neoliberal’ policies “that enriched bankers and destroyed workers by giving bankers free reign to […]
Pentagon’s No.1 weapons supplier Lockheed Martin Corp released a video dedicated to “Skunk Works”, the secret Research and development team at the company. It is responsible for a number of aircraft designs, including the U-2, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, and the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, which are used in the air forces of several countries. The short […]
Federal prosecutors are dropping charges against the parent company of Russia’s infamous troll farm, saying that pursuing the case isn’t worth the risk of disclosing classified secrets to the Russian intelligence-linked firm. In a motion filed late Monday, prosecutors argued that the government should drop conspiracy charges against Concord Management because the “balance of equities has shifted” in seeking justice against the company. Concord Management, owned […]
Some 14 new coronavirus patients were identified in Russia on Saturday with the total number of infected reaching 59. Moscow leads with the number of new cases, with 9 infected with Covid-19 detected in the capital. So far, the coronavirus has not claimed any lives in Russia. Over 145,000 coronavirus patients have been registered worldwide, and more than 5,400 of them died. While the majority of […]
Israel lodged an official protest with Russia yesterday after Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, hosted a delegation from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement in Moscow. The Israeli TV Channel 13 quoted a high-ranking official in the Israeli foreign ministry as saying that the Israeli interim Ambassador to Russia, Eli Belotserkovsky, has visited the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov and registered Tel Aviv’s protest over the […]
Disco vibes, flare pants, a chorus in Spanish and serious faces, while performing the freakiest of dance moves — Russia’s rave-pop-punk hooligans Little Big have impressed the Eurovision crowd with a clip for its contest song. Little Big, often described as “a Russian mental patient’s answer to Die Antwoord,” sure know how to make a hit. Two years ago their song, called ‘Skibidi,’ became a viral […]
Russian MPs have voted in favor of a bill to amend the country’s Constitution. This would include broadening the powers of parliament as well as limiting the number of presidential terms. The bill was supported by 382 deputies during the second and main reading on Tuesday. Some 44 abstained, with no one voting the amendments down. Russians will head to the polls to vote on the […]
Business 08:15 GMT 09.03.2020Get short URL MOSCOW (Sputnik) – At 04:41 GMT, the price of May futures for the Brent Crude oil dropped by 28.69 percent — to $32.28 per barrel. The value of April futures for WTI crude oil decreased by 31.35 percent to $28.33 per barrel. The fall in oil prices to almost $30 per barrel in the wake of OPEC oil producers’ failure […]
Chinese technology giant Huawei announced this week a strategic partnership with Russia’s Sberbank to provide cloud services for Russian businesses. The clients of SberCloud.Advanced are projected to range from large businesses to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups. They will have access to 37 new cloud services, which will be fully integrated into one system. Also on rt.com Chinese tech titan Huawei buys Russian facial […]
Annual inflation in Russia has eased to 2.2 percent in February, according to the median estimate of 20 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. Statistics show that price growth briefly fell to that level in 2018. The Central Bank of Russia has cut its key rate in February by 25 basis points, from 6.25 percent to six percent. It left inflation outlook for 2020 unchanged, at 3.5-4 percent. […]
They say there are two Russias, the one in many Western minds – think “a gas station masquerading as a country” – and the real deal, where 146 million people live, which is often at the cutting edge of technology. When it comes to nuclear power, Russia is undoubtedly one of the world’s leaders and, according to President Vladimir Putin, such investment is paying off. Speaking […]
Russia’s ‘foreign agents’ law – subjected to constant bashing in Western media – is much milder than its US counterpart, as it only applies to those meddling in local politics while on outside pay, Vladimir Putin explained. “What’s wrong with the foreign agent status? We’re not the ones who came up with it,” the Russian leader pointed out during the latest episode of the TASS news […]
The lead designer of Russia’s Su-34 modern fighter-bomber jet, Rollan Martirosov, has died aged 84. He is set to live on through the state-of-the-art aircraft and many other projects to which he contributed. Martirosov had worked with the Sukhoi construction bureau since 1959, and was involved in the creation of the majority of jet aircraft produced by the renowned plane maker. His work began with the […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met Fatah Central Committee member Hussain Sheikh on Thursday in Moscow where he urged Palestinians to reconcile to strengthen its position in talks with Israel, Anadolu Agency reports. Lavrov confirmed Russia’s adherence to the two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “The Russian side reaffirmed its commitment to the two-state principle of resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on a […]
The post-Soviet fallout left many Russian public services in a mess, as the state itself teetered on the brink of collapse and a new capitalist ideology led to sudden shifts in priorities. The area of healthcare suffered badly. Doctors were poorly paid if they were paid at all and infrastructure investment disappeared. However, in the past two decades, as the country stabilized, things have improved dramatically. […]
A new solar power plant (SES) with a capacity of 10MW has been commissioned in the Burzyansky district of Russia’s southern Ural region of Bashkortostan. According to Russian nanotechnology company Rusnano, it is the country’s largest SES with an energy storage facility. Rusnano’s portfolio company Liotech has supplied energy storage units with a total capacity of 8MW. The automated control system selects the optimal mode of […]