Russian car manufacturer AvtoVAZ, known for its Lada brand, plans to attract up to $4.5 billion of investment to update its product range under an agreement signed between the company and a Russian bank, the company`s press service said Friday.
Russian Ministry of Economic Development has raised the forecast for price of oil for 2006 from $51 per barrel of oil brand Urals to $54.
Superior Court of the Russian Federation has recognized the decision of government about construction of oil pipeline "East Siberia - Pacific Ocean" to be legal.
The military departments of the Ukraine and Russia can solve the problem of the inventory of the objects of the Russian Black Sea fleet in the Crimea getting in no conflicts. This opinion was expressed by the Ukrainian Minister of Defense Anatoliy Gritzenko on Thursday.
IPG (International Procurement Group Inc.) company (according to others data - IPD Capital), which has redeemed a part of the Russian debt before the Swiss company Noga, has made it with the Russian government`s consent.
Failure to provide the inflation planned figures for a year will be considered as unsuitability for a profession and discrepancy of the members of Government to the taken position, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fradkov declared.
The owner of a Swiss trading firm at the center of a debt dispute with the Russian government moved Tuesday to clarify the name of a businessman who bought a part of the debt worth tens of millions of dollars.
U.S. President George W. Bush has taken under his personal control the completion of Russia-U.S. talks on the former`s accession to the WTO, the Russian foreign minister said Tuesday.
The gold and foreign currency reserves held by Russia`s Central Bank totaled $195.9 billion on March 1, up 3.97% month-on-month, and 7.5% from the beginning of the year, the CBR said Tuesday.
Russia and Sweden signed the plan of actions on the development of commercial and economic collaboration during the years of 2006-2007, which was aimed at mutrual turnover increase up to $10 billion, reported the press-service of Russian Economic Development and Trade Ministry.
Aviation giant Boeing said Friday that it hoped to win a $3 billion contract to deliver 22 new long-haul planes to flag carrier Aeroflot, even if its rival Airbus has offered a discount.
Russia`s huge current account surplus could disappear by 2009, potentially threatening a liquidity crunch in the banking system if oil prices slump, the Economic Development and Trade Ministry`s chief forecaster said on Friday.
Inflation in Russia in February 2006 has constituted 1,7% as against 1,2% in February, 2005, informed the Federal service of State statistics.
The damage, caused by bird flu virus to Southern Federal District, is rather serious, the Russian chief sanitary inspector Genady Onischenko has told to the journalists on Monday.
Muscovites have started eating less sausage, but more convenience foods, less bread, but more meat. Prices of chicken meet are going down critically, as for price of salt, it has stopped growing. The head of the department of foods resources of Moscow Alexander Baburin told about the situation at the food market of the city.
By estimates of experts of Italian energy concern ENI, the volumes of Russian natural gas supplies came to 70 million cubic meters at the set norm of 74 million cubic meters/day.
By tentative data, the area of frozen winter crops comes to 3.5 million hectares or 30% of sown area. This was announced by Russian vice-minister of agriculture Sergey Mitin.
Russian president Vladimir Putin signed the federal law "About introduction of amendments to article 54 of Federal law "About communication", which cancels payments for incoming calls on mobile phones. This was informed by press-service of government head.
Transit of natural gas through Ukraine reduced, on operative data, for 2,8 % or 630 million cubic meters, comparing to the similar period of 2005. Totally, 21 billion 870 million cubic meters of gas have been transported to Europe.
In the middle of July, when the summit G8 will be held in St. Petersburg, the city airport "Pulkovo" will be closed. On July 15,16 and 17 it will exclusively serve special flights of G8 countries official delegations.
Changes in lifestyle and consumers standards of Samara citizens reflect such trends, as continuous active growth of consuming services of public catering (for 20 %), physical training and sports (for 60%), repair and dwelling housing construction (for 30 %), purchasing consumer durables, growth of number of cars, decreasing the share of purchases made on grocery and clothes markets.
A Japanese diplomat said Thursday his country planned to sign a framework agreement with Russia on the construction of a pipeline to the Pacific coast by the end of 2006.
Leading Russian truck maker KAMAZ reported $1.98 million in net profits for the first nine months of 2005 against a loss of $706,638 during the same period in 2004, the company said in a report Thursday.
Russia`s inflation rate hit 4% in January-February, an increase of 0.1% on last year`s figures, the country`s economics minister said Thursday.
Ukraine will pay $720 for storage of 1 kg of nuclear wastes on Russian territory from 2006. This was announced by Ukrainian president Victor Yushenko this Thursday.