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Kremlin accuses Belarus of illegal food supplies to Russia
The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance of Russia (Rosselkhoznadzor) announced that they continue to detect illegal food supplies from Belarus. “Currently, the Rosselkhoznadzor continues to analyze controlled products deliveries from Belarus to the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic transiting through the territory of the Russian Federation. As a result, the investigators have identified another intermediary company JSC Milkilakt, which carries out illegal …
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Ukraine's Naftogaz to offer Gazprom a new transit agreement for ten years
During the press conference of the Ukrainian national gas company Naftogaz, the executive director of the Ukrainian company, Yuriy Vitrenko, announced that in the upcoming negotiations Naftogaz plans to offer Gazprom to book 60 billion cubic meters of transit capacity of the Ukraine gas transmission system for a period of ten years. This press service was broadcast on the official Naftogaz account on Facebook.
He noted that the company would provide a capacity of 90 billion cubic meters per …
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Zelensky to Putin: You should not speak to Ukrainians in language of threats
Newly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has published a response to Russia’s decision to grant Russian citizenship to residents of the occupied territories in eastern Ukraine.
“Firstly, I would not advise the Russian authorities to waste time trying to tempt Ukrainian citizens with Russian passports. Perhaps there are those who are still under the influence of propaganda. Perhaps some will do it for profit or in an attempt to hide from criminal investigations. We could even …
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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 …
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Production of airplanes and helicopters in Russia falls by 42% this year
The economic activity of "Aircraft, including space, and related equipment" production in the first quarter of 2019 fell by 42.3% compared with the same period of 2018, reported the Russian Federal State Statistics Service, Rosstat.
This is the largest decline among all components of the industrial production, excluding the agglomeration of coal, anthracite and brown coal, and production of thermo-coal, which fell by 82%.
The article of Russian Classifier of Economic Activities OKVED includes …