Belarus’ Agriculture and Food Ministry is taking measures to help its three enterprises regain access to the Russian market, Alexander Subbotin, Deputy Agriculture and Food Minister – Director of the Veterinary and Food Supervision Department, said. “Rosselkhoznadzor’s claims are about the quality of registration of the dried milk conformity declarations”, the deputy minister explained. “We…
The Mogilev region administration and the Hungarian company Hungaroseed Kft have signed an agreement on cooperation. The agreement provides for setting up a joint venture in Mogilev region to produce corn seeds, the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported. A delegation of Mogilev region led by the First Deputy Chairman of…
Two Russian Sukhoi Superjet-100 (SSJ-100) airliners manufactured in their VIP modification have entered service with the Thai Air Force. The inaugural ceremony was held at the military base located at Bangkok’s Don Muang airport. It was attended by Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha. The SSJ-100 planes produced in Russia have joined the 603rd air wing…
In January-August the network of Russian Railways loaded 809.6 million tons, up by 168%, the company’s press center says. In the reported period the railways shipped the following goods: 214 million tons of coal (up by 3.2% YoY); 7.7 million tons of coke (+2.75%); 156.6 million tons of crude and oil products (-7.5%); 73.2 million…
Russia does not see a necessity to limit oil production at current prices, but is open for discussion, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said. “We are always open for discussion, for monitoring the situation, everything will depend on whether there is feasibility”, he said. “In my opinion, now prices are at around $50 (per barrel) –…
The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation proposes to zero down the export duties on wheat from September 15, the draft decree of the Government of the Russian Federation “On Amendments to the rates of export customs duties on goods exported from the Russian Federation outside the member-states of the Customs Union” says. The…
According to the official statistics figures, in 2015/2016 MY (August-July) Russia produced 334.2 thousand tons of crude rapeseed oil, down by 21% compared with the season-2014/2015 (424.7 thousand tons). Most Federal Districts faced the downward trends in production, and only the Volga District demonstrated the growth rates (up by 13%; to 19.8 thousand tons), and…