MOSCOW. Aug 12 (Interfax) - Russia's foreign trade surplus fell 18.4% year-on-year to $63.9 billion in the first half of 2025, compared to $78.3 billion a year previously, it follows from data ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed his hope that his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska this Friday will be constructive. "I think we'll have constructive conversations," ...

Gorshkov was VTB's deputy CEO in charge of retail banking from 2023 to 2025. He served on the management board of the state bank's retail subsidiary VTB24 from 2007 to 2012. He then became first ...

"We hope that the upcoming meeting at the top level will give impetus to the normalization of bilateral relations, allowing us to move forward with these issues as well [restoration of direct flights] ...

MOSCOW. Aug 11 (Interfax) - Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan briefed his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov over the phone on Monday on Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's contacts with ...

MOSCOW. Aug 11 (Interfax) - Moscow's Tagansky District Court has found the Telegram messenger guilty of failing to take down content banned in Russia, the court's press service said in a statement.

"The appellate criminal court of Armenia has found the arrest of Samvel Karapetyan to be illegal. The court confirmed that the arrest of Karapetyan on June 18, 2025 was illegal, resulting in his ...

Russia led the way with 166,600 tourists visiting Uzbekistan in the first half of 2025, according to the statistics. Turkmenistan was in second place sending 123,000 travelers to Uzbekistan in the ...

YEREVAN/BAKU. Aug 11 (Interfax) - Armenia's Foreign Ministry on Monday published the text of the Agreement on Establishment of Peace and Inter-State Relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which was ...

Russia's exports fell 0.9% from $33.1 billion in May to $32.8 billion in June and decreased 8% from $35.7 billion in June 2024. They also decreased 5.9% year-on-year to $196.1 billion in January-June ...

BRUSSELS. Aug 11 (Interfax) - The third tranche in an amount of 1.6 billion euros coming from frozen Russian Central Bank assets has been provided for support to Ukraine, the European Commission said ...

Cash euro sales also increased but not so significantly, reaching the equivalent of $327.3 million in July versus $295 million in May. Therefore, net euro purchases in July reached the equivalent of ...