Contents tagged with China

  • China to test a new batch of Russian S-400 missile systems

    After the destruction of Russian S-400 missiles that were damaged during transportation, China will test the new weapons that were delivered instead of them.

    TASS reported, citing its military-diplomatic source, that the test launches of the S-400 Triumph missiles will be made at one of the Chinese testing ranges in early June. It is planned to launch two rockets at ballistic and aerodynamic targets as in the previous year.

    Earlier, the CEO of the Russian State Corporation Rostec Sergey …

  • Russia summons Spanish ambassador over ‘old enemy’ remark

    Spanish Ambassador to Moscow Fernando Valderrama has been summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry over a comment made by acting Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell.

    In an interview with El Periodico, Borrell mentioned Russia only once, while talking about changes in the world. “A lot has changed. Our ally (the US) is turning its back on us. Our old enemy, Russia, is once again asserting itself and posing a threat, and China is becoming a rival,” he said, adding that in such a situation …

  • Russia considers adopting cryptocurrency to bypass sanctions

    Venezuela’s example of trying to bypass US sanctions using its own national cryptocurrency, the “petro”, has proved to be contagious.

    The Russian government is now prepared to consider creating a national gold-backed cryptocurrency, said Elvira Nabiullina, head of the Central Bank of Russia, during a meeting of several parliamentary committees, reports finanz.ru.

    Such a cryptocurrency is needed for BRICS countries to make payments on arms contracts, explained Vladimir Gutenyov, First Deputy …

  • Russia’s largest petrochemical project declared unprofitable

    The Russian oil company Rosneft has abandoned its plans to invest in the Eastern Petrochemical Complex (EPC) in the Far East, the company’s first vice president Pavel Federov said in a conference call, finanz.ru reports.

    The $12 billion project, which was meant to be built in Primorsky Krai and become Russia’s largest petrochemicals cluster, was found to be unprofitable.

    The complex, which was expected to include oil refineries with a total annual capacity of 12 million tons and 3.4 million …

  • Kremlin: China is interested in increasing gas supplies from Russia

    The Chairman of the Management Committee of Russian energy company Gazprom, Alexey Miller, on the air of the program “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin " said that Gazprom’s Chinese partners from the state-owned oil and gas company the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) show great interest in increasing the supplies beyond the volume agreed in the thirty-year contract, reports news agency TASS.

    The current contract for the supply of Russian gas to China through the Power of Siberia pipeline, …

  • Kremlin: Russia is ready to negotiate nuclear disarmament

    Russian Presidential Aide responsible for international affairs, Yuri Ushakov, commented on the United States President Donald Trump’s statements, who urged Moscow and Beijing to abandon nuclear weapons, and noted that, the U.S. themselves would like to reach such agreement.

    “First of all, it is necessary to carry out what remains (the existing agreements),” RIA Novosti quoted Ushakov’s view expressed in the program “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin "on the TV channel Russia 1.

    According to the …

  • Kremlin: China complies with anti-Russia sanctions but does not support them

    Despite the fact that China has joined the anti-Russian sanctions, it does not support them, said Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov in an episode of “Moscow. The Kremlin. Putin” on the TV channel Russia-1.

    “Many Chinese banks and economic structures have been forced to observe the same restrictions that are applied by the Americans and other countries, because we still live in the century of interdependent economics. This is why, of course, caution is quite often exercised by our Chinese …

  • Putin and Lukashenko discussed contaminated oil supply from Russia

    At the “One Belt, One Road” summit in China, Vladimir Putin announced that he had discussed the low-quality oil supply situation with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko.

    The president said it was necessary to conduct an investigation, not ruling out the involvement of Russian law enforcement and special services if the internal corporate investigation is not enough. “First of all, it is necessary to conduct an investigation at the level of Transneft itself, and to identify the …

  • China refuses to share profit from joint plane venture with Russia

    Russian United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) ran into problems when it attempted, in collaboration with China, to create the first Russian wide-body passenger aircraft since the times of the USSR.

    Two sources close to UAC told  the Russian publication Vedomosti that having agreed to split the cost of creating the CR929 airliner ($20 billion) in half, the Chinese partner, COMAC, does not want to allow Russia access to the key Chinese market allowing it to turn a profit from selling the aircraft …

  • Chinese company to sue Ukraine for wrongful seizure of property

    China National Building Material (CNBM) has notified the Ukrainian Justice Ministry about an investment dispute surrounding the Voskhod Solar power station in the Mykolaiv region, the Ukrainian News Agency reports.

    This indicates that the Chinese company intends to file a lawsuit against the Ukrainian government if the parties cannot reach an agreement.

    CNBM, which owns Voskhod Solar, claims that the company has become the object of a corporate raid and forceful property seizure by the …