BRUSSELS. March 18 (Interfax) - The Council of the European Union announced its final decision to allot 1.9 billion euros to Moldova to support its reforms and economic growth.

ASTANA. March 18 (Interfax) - Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed an executive order establishing an Atomic Energy Agency in the country, the Kazakh presidential press service said on ...

MINSK. March 18 (Interfax) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that, during his recent visit to Moscow, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin ordered that some outstanding issues ...

The Federal Property Agency (Rosimushchestvo) transferred 473 billion rubles to the federal budget in 2024, of which dividend payments from companies with state participation amounted to 307 billion ...

MOSCOW. March 18 (Interfax) - The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) is pumping oil in March as usual, with no decrease in volumes. "No, there isn't one [a reduction]," Transneft President Nikolai ...

The decision will affect assets whose share in the 2025 production plan is less than 1 million carats of diamonds, or 3% of Alrosa's total production.

MOSCOW. March 18 (Interfax) - Agreements with Chinese partners on a joint venture with Norilsk Nickel to establish copper production facilities in China are possible in the coming months, Norilsk ...

MOSCOW. March 18 (Interfax) - Russia has begun exporting beet pulp (a byproduct of sugar beet processing) to Egypt. More than 6,500 tonnes of the product were shipped in January, the federal ...

BAKU. March 18 (Interfax) - OJSC Azerenerji has completed the expansion of the Azerbaijan Thermal Power Plant (TPP) in Mingachevir, the largest in the South Caucasus region, by building new generating ...

MOSCOW. March 18 (Interfax) - French automaker Renault, which has left Russia, could still return to car maker Avtovaz as a shareholder, but no such talks are currently underway, Sergei Chemezov, the ...

MOSCOW. March 18 (Interfax) - The Russian government will be ready to update the comprehensive program for the development of the aviation industry after certificates are received for ...

MOSCOW. March 18 (Interfax) - Gazprom Neft plans to increase its investment program in 2025 compared to last year amid the active implementation of major projects, the company's head Alexander Dyukov ...