MOSCOW. June 30 (Interfax) - Mechel has obtained a three-year deferral for tax and insurance contribution payments totaling over 13 billion rubles as targeted state support, the maximum possible ...

MOSCOW. June 30 (Interfax) - Russia's Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) has banned the import of seeds and planting material grown in the Netherlands ...

ALMATY. June 30 (Interfax) - Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has appointed Nurlan Saurambayev, former head of the national railway company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), as the country's new ...

ASTANA. June 30 (Interfax) - China's Zijin Mining Group will acquire Kazakhstan's RG Gold, operator of the Raygorodok gold deposit, for $1.2 billion transaction expected to close by September 30. The ...

MOSCOW. June 30 (Interfax) - The UK will introduce additional import duties for nitrogenous fertilizers from Russia and Belarus as of July 18, the UK Department for Business and Trade reported. The ...

CHOLPON-ATA, Kyrgyzstan/MOSCOW. July 30 (Interfax) - Russia is open to an honest work on the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine and does not recognize fraudulent approaches to this issue, Russian ...

BERLIN. June 30 (Interfax) - German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, currently visiting Kiev, has said that the European Union and its partners will continue to exert economic pressure on Russia. "By ...

WASHINGTON. June 30 (Interfax) - The United States has lifted the sanctions hindering the Paks II NPP project in Hungary, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Sunday. "Luckily, a ...

MOSCOW. June 30 (Interfax) - The first power unit of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Turkey could be put into operation within this year, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told the ...

MOSCOW. June 30 (Interfax) - The Russian government has approved a decree on the creation of the Black Sea State Nature Biosphere Reserve, a statement published on Sunday on the government's website ...

"Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has received Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov and discussed with him relevant issues of bilateral and multilateral cooperation, as well as ...

YEREVAN. June 30 (Interfax) - Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan and EU High Representative for Foreign Relations and Security Policy Kaja Kallas met in Yerevan on Sunday to discuss energy ...