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Russia's trade surplus falls 18.3% to $42.4 bln in Jan-April - FCS
According to foreign trade data published on Tuesday by the Federal Customs Service (FCS), exports of goods from Russia decreased 5.9% YoY in January-April 2025 to $128.2 billion, while imports rose 1 ...
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Aeroflot raises 2030 passenger traffic target from 65 mln to 80 mln people
MOSCOW. June 10 (Interfax) - Aeroflot Group plans to reach 80 million passengers by 2030 under its updated development strategy, CEO Sergei Alexandrovsky said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 ...
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Germany's SEFE signs 10-year contract with SOCAR for gas supplies starting 2025, scaling up to 1.5 bcm per year
MOSCOW. June 10 (Interfax) - Germany's SEFE (Securing Energy for Europe, formerly Gazprom Marketing & Trading before being seized from Gazprom ) has signed a 10-year gas purchase contract with the ...
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Russia's biggest exporters cut forex sales to two-year low of $7.3 bln in May - CBR
MOSCOW. June 10 (Interfax) - Russia's largest exporters reduced forex sales by 27% to $7.3 billion in May from $10 billion in April amid the continued decline of world oil prices and fewer working ...
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Gazprom Neft Director of Regional Sales Dmitry Shepelsky: Our network of filling stations to grow in line with Russian fuel market
Gazprom Neft leads the retail market with average daily fuel sales of 19.3 tonnes per station. We intend to maintain this ...
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Uzbekistan and BRICS New Development Bank agree on joint projects totaling $5 bln
The New Development Bank was established based on an intergovernmental agreement signed during the sixth BRICS summit in Brazil in 2014 between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Several ...
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Kazakhstan yet to decide whether to apply tit-for-tat measures in response to new Russian entry rules - Foreign Ministry
ASTANA. June 9 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan is studying Russia's requirements for collecting biometric data from foreigners crossing the Russian border, while possible tit-for-tat measures are still under ...
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Kyrgyzstan switching to majoritarian representation system in parliamentary elections - law
A group of Kyrgyz parliamentarians led by Speaker Nurlanbek Turgunbek Uulu earlier proposed changing the parliamentary electoral system, under which all lawmakers would be elected based on the ...
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Multimodal terminal for Trans-Caspian International Transport Route opens at Poti seaport
ASTANA. June 9 (Interfax) - The official opening of a multimodal terminal built by Kazakhstan, Georgia and Azerbaijan took place at the Poti seaport in Georgia on Monday, JSC Poti TransTerminal said ...
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Russia setting up Artificial Intelligence Development Center - dep PM
The Russian government has decided to create an Artificial Intelligence Development Center to select and replicate standard AI solutions, coordinate government agencies, regions and businesses, ...
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Russia introduces 5% duty on exports of purebred sheep, lambs for next 3 years - decree
According to a government decree signed on June 5, 2025, and published on the official portal of legal information, the list of duty rates has been expanded to include items under HS codes of the ...
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Russia determined to comprehensively develop interaction with African countries, including on security - Kremlin
MOSCOW. June 9 (Interfax) - Russia will continue interaction with African countries on defense and security matters, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.