The head of state-owned energy giant Rosneft has called for a large reduction in the tax burden on the oil industry, Vedomosti reported Monday, in a move that could increase friction with the government.
A journalist in Russia’s North Caucasus was shot dead on Tuesday after repeated threats and an attempt on his life. Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev, an editor at a local weekly newspaper critical of authorities and contributor to leading online source Caucasian Knot, was gunned down in his car Tuesday morning by unknown attackers…
The EU has told the WTO it held that Russia was illegally protecting its carmakers with a recycling fee levied on imported cars, and had given up waiting for Moscow to change the law.
The Russian prosecutor general says some 215 NGO’s are bypassing a recent law on foreign funding by not registering themselves as foreign agents.
Russia said on Monday that remarks by the new leader of the opposition Syrian National Coalition have raised questions about his dedication to a political solution of the conflict, and urged the group to commit to attending a peace conference.
Russia’s lower house of parliament has stripped compliance measures from proposed tax incentives for “tight” oil production, a parliamentary official said. Energy companies have warned that the measures, which will now be reviewed by the upper chamber, would drive up production costs and deter investment.
French authorities have detained a former Russian politician who has been on an Interpol wanted list since November, accused of fraud worth 3.5 billion roubles ($105 million), Russia’s Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
Lithuanian Energy Minister Jaroslaw Neverovič has warned his Russian counterparts that selling gas to the Baltic country at an excessive price is not sustainable, the minister told EurActiv.
A Russian passenger train has derailed while traveling from Siberia to Sochi, the future Olympic city on the Black Sea, and emergency officials say more than 70 people were injured.
Moody’s cut by a notch the ratings of Russia’s state lending giants – Sberbank and VTB – with Russian Agricultural Bank seeing a two notch downgrade. The agency said the Russian government was less prepared to back the lenders than it was in 2007 – 08.
