Eastern Europe

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky met with Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in Kiev."I held a meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Prince Faisal bin Far...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Apple Corp. has paid a 906 million ruble fine for restricting competition on the computer app market in its AppStore, which was levied in 2019 by the Federal Antimonopoly Service in response to a complaint from Kaspersky Lab, a...

MINSK. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The Belarusian Finance Ministry said on Friday that the Belarus-2026 and Belarus-2031 Eurobonds obligations had been fulfilled in Belarusian rubles."On February 24, 2023, the interest yield on the Belarus-2026 Eurobonds in t...

BAKU. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Marcel Ciolacu, president of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies, has said he discussed three major energy projects, including natural gas supplies to Moldova, at a meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Baku on Monday.&...

MOSCOW. Feb 22 (Interfax) - Clarity concerning the amount of the contribution to be paid by large companies to the budget from profits received due to price trends in 2021-2022 could appear only a month from now, state secretary and Deputy Finance Ministe...

MOSCOW. Feb 22 (Interfax) - Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has called for the involvement of Italian businesses in the Ukraine reconstruction project."I see this as an important element. This is an important message for Ukrainians who believe i...

MOSCOW. Feb 22 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has noted the growing trade between Russia and China."Russian-Chinese relations are developing as we expected in the previous years. Everything has been progressing, developing. We are achie...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Engineers have partially restored power supply to critical infrastructure in the city of Odessa and the surrounding area, Ukrainian media have reported with reference to the DTEK power company's social media post."As of...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Former Rusagro Group executive Nikolay Zhirnov has become the head of Bunge CIS, a former Russian subsidiary of the U.S. company Bunge, according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities.Zhirnov was the head of Rusagro-C...

BISHKEK. Feb 22 (Interfax) - Kyrgyzstan's government has decided to liquidate the Great Nomads Heritage holding, which had been managing the Kumtor gold mine."By order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan, the procedure for temporary external...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal believes that Kiev's intention to prepare for accession to the European Union within two years is an ambitious, but realistic goal."We did not start moving to the EU yesterday. Thi...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Ukraine needs to find about $5 billion to fully close the deficit in the state budget financing in 2023 totaling $38 billion, the government expects the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to grant them, Ukrainian media outlets s...

YEREVAN. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The United States can play an important role in implementing the International Court of Justice's ruling, which compels Azerbaijan to ensure unhampered transit through the Lachin corridor connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to Arm...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Engineers tentatively plan to complete repairs on a high-voltage power transmission line, whose shutdown cut off power supply to nearly all parts of the city of Odessa and the surrounding area on Monday morning, within 24 hours...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Russia has stopped supplying oil via pipeline to Poland, PKN Orlen Management Board President and CEO Daniel Obajtek announced on social media."We are effectively guaranteeing our crude oil supplies. Russia has stopped supp...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Ukrainian IT companies attracted about $1 billion of venture investments in 2022, Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation for IT Development Alexander Bornyakov said in an interview with Ukrainian media outlets.Thos...

ASTANA. Feb 27 (Interfax) - KazTransOil has delivered Kazakh oil to the main pipeline system of PJSC Transneft for shipment to Germany, Shyngys Ilyasov, director of KazTransOil public relations and internal communications department, told Interfax."On...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The weather in Europe this week will be colder than in the previous two weeks. The temperature for the week February 27-March 5 is forecast to be about 3 degrees cooler than the average for the previous week and to drop below z...

ALMATY. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Kazakh National Company JSC QazaqGaz and Gazprom are discussing the establishment of a transit route that will pass through the territory of East Kazakhstan, Arman Kasenov, deputy chairman of the QazaqGaz executive board for ma...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal has raised Can$52 million from 72,000 donors, the Ukrainian media reported, quoting the press service of the Canada-Ukraine Foundation (CUF).The appeal is a joint project of the CUF and the Ukrai...

MINSK. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The National Bank of Belarus (NBB) will lower its refinancing rate for the second time since the start of the year by 0.5 percentage points to 11% as of March 1."As of March 2023, the refinancing rate is decreasing from 11.5...

Almaty. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Gas processing at Kashagan will begin in 2025, JSC QazaqGaz CEO for Marketing Arman Kasenov said."Initially, the project was carried out by a private organization. In August, it was transferred to QazaqGaz. Much work had be...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Uralsib Bank , which was hit by U.S. and UK sanctions last week, has suspended retail and corporate customers' transfers in nine currencies.Outgoing client payments in U.S. dollars, pounds sterling, Danish krone, Japanese y...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The net outflow from Ukraine last week rose to 34,000 people from 14,000 a week earlier, Ukrainian media reported, citing information from the State Border Service on social media.According to the statistical data of the servic...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Ukraine's Prime Minister Denis Shmygal and his Moldovan counterpart Dorin Recean have discussed regional security, integration with the European Union, and joint cross-border cooperation projects."The premiers' firs...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Philip Morris International (PMI), whose attempts to sell its Russian business over the events in Ukraine have been unsuccessful so far, has doubts whether this is even possible given current regulation of transactions involvin...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Weather conditions allow the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) to transship oil at the offshore terminal near Novorossiysk as scheduled, the CPC said in a statement."At present, the weather conditions in the operational are...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The Verkhovna Rada passed a bill on Ukraine's withdrawal from the agreement to create the Black Sea Naval Cooperation Task Group (BlackSeaFor), the Ukrainian media reported last Friday, citing a social media post of Rada me...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - A high-voltage power transmission line in the Odessa region has experienced an emergency shutdown, cutting off power supply to nearly all parts of the city of Odessa and the surrounding area, Ukrainian media reported on Monday ...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Russia has registered 9,580 new cases of Covid-19 and 30 related deaths over the past 24 hours, the coronavirus response headquarters said in a statement on Monday.Russia "has recorded 9,580 new cases of Covid-19 and 786 pa...

MINSK. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The Belarusian Energy Ministry has set up a radioactive waste management operator that will build a national storage facility for such waste, Energy Minister Viktor Karankevich said."An organization to manage radioactive was...

ASTANA. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The Kazakh Interdepartmental Commission on Foreign Trade has decided to impose a six-month ban on exporting coal and lignite (brown coal) from Kazakhstan by road, the government's press service said on Friday."A decisio...

WASHINGTON. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The launch of the U.S. SpaceX Crew Dragon reusable spaceship planned for Monday was cancelled two minutes before the takeoff, NASA said.The reason is a launch pad ignition system's malfunction. Fuel is being drained fro...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Latin America could hold a summit with Ukraine, the country's President Vladimir Zelensky said."Latin America is very important, I would very much like to do a conference, would like to do a meeting, a summit of Latin A...

WASHINGTON. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Canada has announced the imposition of sanctions on 129 individuals and 63 entities, says a statement published on the website of Canadian Prime Minister Justine Trudeau."The prime minister announced that Canada is impo...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Kamaz revenues from sales of vehicles in the non-core passenger car segment will reach 350 billion rubles by 2030, the Vesti Kamaz corporate newspaper said citing CEO Sergey Kogogin.According to the newspaper, Kogogin announced...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Tinkoff Investments is temporarily suspending trading in foreign securities and euros, the broker said in a statement on its Telegram channel on Sunday."We are transferring foreign securities traded on the SPB Exchange to a...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The World Bank Group has announced an additional grant for Ukraine worth $2.5 billion provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of the World Bank's Public Expenditures for Administra...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Any talks with Russia, except for discussing the exchange of prisoners of war and ensuring the grain corridor, make no sense as of now, head of the Servant of the People pro-presidential faction in the Verkhovna Rada David Arak...

LONDON. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The British Foreign Office said on Friday that the UK was broadening sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine situation."Foreign Secretary James Cleverly [...] announced [on February 24] a new package of internationally co...

BRUSSELS. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The European Union regulations for the 10th package of sanctions against Russia over the events in Ukraine, which were endorsed in a written procedure on Saturday, have taken effect."The relevant legal acts, including the...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian Energy Ministry has forwarded to the Ukrgasvydobuvannya company from Swedish partners a batch of power equipment weighing over 62 tonnes in total, including powerful generators and electricity storage units, Ukrai...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - China presented a 12-point peace plan for a settlement in Ukraine on Friday.Ukrainian media quoted the document published on the website of the Chinese Foreign Ministry as saying that the first point is "respecting the sove...

WASHINGTON. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The U.S. Department of State announced on Friday the imposition of sanctions against a number of Russian ministers and governors, among them Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov and Digi...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Heineken plans to exit Russia in the first half of 2023, although it is having difficulties with the sale of its Russian assets, the Dutch brewer said in a press release."It is challenging to close a transaction in Russia a...

MINSK. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Some of Russian-Belarusian import substitution projects have reached the stage of financing and hardware procurement, Belarusian Deputy Industry Minister Dmitry Kharitonchik said."Gomselmash has reached a stage of lending fr...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the phone on Friday, the Kremlin press service said.The two presidents discussed "topical issues of Russian-Turkish cooperation, includ...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The Nova Poshta Ukrainian group of companies plans to open offices in major German cities starting from April, as well as to enter the markets of Romania and the Czech Republic in Q2, the Ukrainian media reported, citing the me...

MOSCOW. Feb 27 (Interfax) - The Group of Seven countries, based on the Ukrainian government's needs, have increased their commitment of budget and economic support for Ukraine to $39 billion for 2023, Ukrainian media said, citing a joint statement of ...

NEW YORK, the United Nations. Feb 27 (Interfax) - Two bulk carriers carrying nearly 95,000 tonnes of corn left Ukrainian ports on Sunday, the Joint Coordination Center (JCC) said.According to JCC, the Amber S vessel will deliver 43,226 tonnes of corn to S...