MOSCOW. July 2 (Interfax) - Russia's Finance Ministry is looking into the possibility of providing tax incentives to companies implementing new projects for the extraction of rare earth metals (REM), ...

The number of payments using QR codes and biometrics increased to 800 million transactions in the first quarter of 2025, double the same period last year. The amount of purchases paid for using these ...

MOSCOW. July 4 (Interfax) - Russia and Ukraine accomplished another prisoner swap on Friday in furtherance of the agreements reached in Istanbul, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

MOSCOW. July 4 (Interfax) - Yandex Travel, part of Yandex , has agreed to acquire the business of Academ-Online, a service that facilitates booking hotels online for business trips, the company said.

VOLGOGRAD. July 4 (Interfax) - Russia's Agriculture Ministry has retained the previously announced forecast for the harvest of at least 135 million tonnes of grain in 2025, including 90 million tonnes ...

BAKU. July 4 (Interfax) - The next, 18th summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization will take place in Iran in 2027. The decision was made at the end of the organization's summit in Khankendi, ...

"The BRICS summit will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 6 and 7, and the president will attend the main plenary session of the summit by video link on Sunday," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry ...

The press service of the SPB Exchange told Interfax that UGC shares remain available for trading.

MINSK. July 2 (Interfax) - Belarusian gold and foreign-exchange reserves hit a record high of $11.537 billion as of July 1, 2025, compared to $8.923 billion at the beginning of the year, the National ...

MINSK. July 4 (Interfax) - The European Union has allocated a grant of 76 million euros to Ukraine to construct a European-gauge railway line between Lvov and the border with Poland, Polish media ...

CHISINAU. July 4 (Interfax) - Two-thirds of Moldovan citizens are opposed to their country's accession to NATO, the findings of the Social and Political Barometer-June 2025 poll, conducted by the IMAS ...

The airline can perform four flights per week, from August 1 to the end of the current spring-summer navigation (October 25), using Airbus A320/330 aircraft. According to public information, there are ...