Estonia has asked the European Union to exclude the Solikamsk Magnesium Plant, and an individual connected with it – the company’s chief executive Ruslan Dimukhamedov – from the 22nd package of sanctions against Russia. The reason was the Estonian company…
After Ukrainian strikes on three Yandex data centres, the company has still not restored them to full operation. Users felt the disruption to taxis, delivery services and cloud services not only in Russia, but also in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Belarus.…
The administration of US President Donald Trump supports a proposal to buy the foreign assets of the Russian oil company Lukoil, valued at roughly $20 billion. The New York Post reported this on 9 October, citing a source in the…
The Russian government has submitted to the State Duma its draft federal budget for 2027 and the planning period 2028–2029. The document is currently being examined by the relevant committee, and the first reading in the State Duma is scheduled…
The new State Duma convened for its first session in record time – just ten days after the elections. And that is not the only record of this convocation: United Russia won the largest number of seats in its history…
The European Union has agreed to remove the Russian billionaires Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman from the personal sanctions list they had been on since 2022. France and Slovakia pushed for the restrictions on Usmanov to be lifted and Luxembourg…
The party of power is again taking a constitutional majority in the State Duma and may form the largest faction in its history. According to preliminary Central Election Commission data, United Russia is taking around 58% of the vote, and…
For the first time Russia is electing State Duma deputies from the occupied territories of Ukraine. The vote is being held under martial law and amid continuing fighting, so a large share of voters cast their ballots early. Ukraine and…
Voting in the State Duma elections begins in Russia on 18 September. The organisers had planned to run this parliamentary campaign as calmly and predictably as possible, but in the end they created a problem for themselves: first they registered…
Forbes Russia published its list of the country’s richest women. Wildberries CEO Tatiana Kim topped the ranking for the fifth time. Over the past year, her fortune fell by more than $2 billion, but Kim retained first place by a…
