Yearly Archives: 2017

The Russian National Oil and Gas Forum and the 18thedition of the Neftegaz International Exhibition will run on 17-18 and 16-19April 2018 at Expocentre Fairgrounds in Moscow.

On the British Teachers Coming Work in MoscowRussian education is going through an investment boom. Every year, new private schools are opened, many offering an education in English leading to an international diploma.

The leading Russian private business school SKOLKOVO has announced a launch of a new programme in partnership with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) – EMBA for Eurasia.

Gazprom achieved record gas shipments to Europe this year

Several hotels have already raised prices 40-fold for the summer

As much financial wealth is held by rich Russians abroad as in Russia itself

Foreign investors entered 2017 anticipating sanctions to be lifted

Foodfox works with over 2,000 restaurants in Moscow

Duma deputies ruled to harshen fines in response to the high demand for World Cup tickets, especially among Russian fans

Russians in Silicon Valley, foreign media screws tightening, offshores coming home

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Relations between the two countries have soured in recent years after Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in 2014

Russian wheat has largely been barred from entering the kingdom for the past decade

George Kachmazov, a Russian realtor, is buying up property in Athens.

Sanctions, infighting between the elite and popular protests could all make Russia a more difficult place for foreign business next year

Russia wants to create its own equivalents of the 77 companies abroad it imports from

Sanctions and plummeting relations with the West did little to deter an influx of foreign cash

“If you tell me that you need to build a bank, then don’t come to me or our team.”

The economy of the world’s biggest energy exporter is stalling without enough investment

Even half-naked on Tinder, where he just popped up, Pavel Durov loves to play hard to get

With the economy besieged by sanctions and some of its biggest companies becoming pariahs in western capital markets, Russia is cramming the high-rises with ministries and the biggest state firms

The pact would mark the first easing of Moscow’s ban on air travel since terrorists blew up a Russian passenger jet over the Sinai Peninsula

Nizhny Novgorod, which will host Argentina and England during the group stage, has topped a new ranking of the most expensive World Cup cities in terms of accommodation

Vladimir Putin is due to meet his Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in Cairo on Monday.

Russia, considered a hotbed of government-backed information attacks, increasingly finds itself a victim of cybercrime

Did you accept $300 million or more? You might be at risk of sanctions

The construction was a priority for the Kremlin and has ended a year ahead of schedule