MOSCOW. July 24 (Interfax) - The Central Bank of Russia has kept its estimate for underlying inflation unchanged and predicts that the indicator will remain close to current levels in the second half ...

MINSK. July 24 (Interfax) - Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov has held talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on the sidelines of the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers ...

DUSHANBE. July 24 (Interfax) - Tajik President Emomali Rahmon had a talk with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Friday, the Tajik president's press service said. At the beginning of the talk, ...

"At present, the active investment package with China comprises around 80 projects for an overall sum of $5 billion," Snopkov was quoted by state news agency BelTA as saying on Friday at a meeting ...

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has received Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to discuss the development of trade and economic cooperation, the implementation of infrastructure projects, transport and ...

Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina told a press conference that the regulator had factored a primary structural deficit of 2% of GDP for 2026, 1% for 2027, and 0.5% for 2028 into its own ...

Kazakhstan's foreign trade in January-May reached $56.35 billion, up 4.3% year-on-year, with a surplus of $4.38 billion, down 24%. Russia accounts for 8.8% of Kazakhstan's exports and 31.6% of its ...

The Monetary Policy Committee of the National Bank of Kazakhstan has made the decision to lower the base rate to 16.75% per annum with a corridor of plus or minus 1 percentage point (pp), the National ...

The Central Bank had retained the key rate at 21% pa at four consecutive meetings prior to June, after jacking the key rate by 200 bps from 19% pa on October 25, 2024. The next meeting of the Central ...

AFK Sistema is 49.2% owned by Vladimir Yevtushenkov, who is already on the sanctions list. Another 15.3% is held by his son Felix Yevtushenkov, who is the corporation's senior managing partner, also ...

The Russian government is discussing extending the diesel fuel export ban for producers for another month after it expires on July 31, and the gasoline export ban, also expiring in late July, for six ...

MOSCOW. July 24 (Interfax) - Russia exported over 11 million tonnes of agricultural produce to Africa in the first half of 2026, up 1.4-fold year-on-year, while the revenue from these exports ...