MOSCOW. May 7 (Interfax) - The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) and the Industry and Trade Ministry have developed a draft joint order stipulating that no less than 10% of the monthly production of ...

MOSCOW. May 7 (Interfax) - ArcelorMittal Krivoi Rog (AMKR) has halted mining and steel production facilities due to logistics disruptions on the part of Ukraine Railways (JSC Ukrzaliznytsia), ...

MOSCOW. May 7 (Interfax) - The Kremlin said that no decision had been reached regarding the possible sale of the Russian assets in the Italian bank UniCredit.

YEKATERINBURG. May 7 (Interfax) - Airline Red Wings will begin offering flights from Yekaterinburg to a new destination in Kazakhstan, Aktau, starting on June 11, the airline's press service said.

KEMEROVO. May 7 (Interfax) - An open fire has been extinguished at the Alardinskaya coal mine operated by the Raspadskaya Group in Russia's Kemerovo region, where workers were evacuated on Thursday ...

Currently, the capacity of Tajikistan's energy system is 5,800 MW. It is therefore planned that its capacity will increase by one third through solar energy facilities.

Azerbaijan's strategic currency reserves are estimated at $88 billion as of early May 2026, having grown by $2.9 billion since the beginning of the year, Central Bank of Azerbaijan Governor Taleh ...

Moldova's National Agency for Energy Regulation (ANRE) is introducing a mechanism for conditional reservation of gas transmission system (GTS) capacity, which allows users of the Trans-Balkan Gas ...

MOSCOW. May 6 (Interfax) - Russia's Finance Ministry is resuming domestic market operations under the budget rule after a two-month hiatus as of May 8 to June 4 to purchase foreign currency and gold ...

Armenia and Turkey have no diplomatic relations, and their joint border has been closed since 1993 at Ankara's initiative over the Karabakh conflict.

TBILISI. May 6 (Interfax) - The National Bank of Georgia's Monetary Policy Committee has hiked the monetary policy or refinancing rate from 8% to 8.25% per annum, the NBG said in a press release ...

The Central Bank of Azerbaijan had eight meetings on the refinancing rate in 2025, thereby retaining the rate as is at six of them and trimming the rate by 25 basis points at two of them. The ...