MOSCOW. Aug 5 (Interfax) - The first flight of a fully Russian-made MC-21 passenger aircraft should be carried out in August, Rostec CEO Sergei Chemezov said at a meeting with Russian Prime Minister ...

YEREVAN. Aug 5 (Interfax) - The Central Bank of Armenia has decided to leave the refinancing rate, or discount rate, at 6.75% per annum, the regulator said. The rate has been 6.75% since February 4, ...

MOSCOW. Aug 5 (Interfax) - The Romanian Energy Ministry has declared a crisis-level state of emergency to allow OMV Petrom (controlled by Austrian oil company OMV) to access emergency oil reserves ...

Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov previously said that payments to oil companies under the damper in 2025 are expected to be around 1.4 trillion rubles below plan - at around 2.6 trillion rubles ...

MOSCOW. Aug 5 (Interfax) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Kiev in the near future, Ukrainian media reported with reference to the Turkish publication Turkiye. The visit will be of ...

Taking into account the announced volumes of Finance Ministry operations, from August 7 to September 4, 2025, the CBR will thus sell foreign currency amounting to 9.24 billion rubles per day. From ...

The country's gold and foreign exchange reserves thus increased by $3.02 billion or 33.8% in January-July. In July, they grew 3.5% (by $401 million) after a 3.4% increase of $379.3 million in June and ...

MOSCOW. Aug 5 (Interfax) - The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) worsened its current account deficit forecast for 2025 from $17.3 billion to $34.6 billion in the Inflation Report, updated in July, ...

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has tasked Rostec CEO Sergei Chemezov with submitting proposals for a financial model of aircraft deliveries to airlines, including consideration of fuel subsidies.

ASTANA. Aug 5 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan plans to create an agromarketplace that will help authorities regulate pricing for socially significant food products (SSFPs).

The supervisory board of Rosatom Group has given the greenlight to raise foreign financing, and work is underway on preparing the issue of bonds in Chinese yuan and Islamic bonds, or sukuk, by ...

YEREVAN. Aug 4 (Interfax) - The Armenian government has refrained to comment on reports alleging that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is planning to travel to the United States later this week for a ...