MOSCOW. Aug 17 (Interfax) - BTS-Most Holding has offered to buy minority shareholders out of gold miner Uzhuralzoloto Group of Companies (UGC) for 74.25 kopecks per share, the company said in a ...

The slight decline in Russia's annual inflation from 6.02% in June to 5.98% in July is due to the postponement of the indexation of utilities tariffs, the Central Bank of Russia said. "The ...

Russia's National Mercantile Exchange (NAMEX) is optimizing its wheat spot market logistics. The exchange said the NOVO basis for rail delivery without acceptance on the wheat spot market has now been ...

The country's GDP grew 2.4% in 2025 after growing 0.1% in 2024 and 1.2% in 2023 and declining 5.9% in 2022. Moldova's GDP grew 0.4% in Q1 2026.

MOSCOW. Aug 17 (Interfax) - Russian presidential aide and Maritime Board Chairman Nikolai Patrushev has visited the Kompozit enterprise in the Moscow region to discuss its cooperation with shipyards, ...

ASTANA. Aug 17 (Interfax) - Capital investment in Kazakhstan rose 7.7% year-on-year to 11.46 trillion tenge in January-July 2026, the National Statistics Bureau said.

MOSCOW. Aug 17 (Interfax) - The Express-AMU51 and Express-AMU52 communication satellites are expected to be launched to a geostationary orbit before 2030, Alexei Volin, general director of the Russian ...

South Korea imported 10.6 tonnes of ice cream from Russia for $72,000 in July 2026, according to South Korean customs data. This was the highest figure of this year so far. The second largest was 10.1 ...

There was a federal budget deficit of 5.865 trillion rubles in H1 and 5.927 trillion rubles in 5M 2025, so there was a surplus of 61.5 billion rubles in June. Revenue was 18.525 trillion rubles and ...

Rosagroleasing has remained primarily focused on developing the agricultural sector, and the company is expanding services to the industry, Vladimir Balter, Rosagroleasing's new CEO as of August 13, ...

Tajikistan and Iran have agreed on the framework for a long-term cooperation agreement in the oil sector, envisaging increased supplies of Iranian petroleum products and crude oil to Tajikistan, ...

BAKU. Aug 17 (Interfax) - Serbia expects to soon complete the preliminary feasibility study for the project to build a gas-turbine power plant (GTPP) with a capacity of 500 MW near the city of Nis, ...