Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has decided to postpone privatization of the oil company Bashneft, and the decision was supported by the president Vladimir Putin, Medvedev’s press secretary Natalya Timakova reported. “Yes, the Prime Minister made a decision and the president approved of it – to delay privatization of Bashneft”, Timakova said. The Federal State…
Russian consumer prices remained flat from August 9 through August 15, after two weeks of a 0.1% contraction, while inflation since January 1, stood at 3.8%, the Federal State Statistics Service said. In August 2015, prices grew by 0.4% MoM and 9.8% since January 1, 2015. Prices for fruit and vegetables fell by 3.4% on…
The government of Russia prolonged the period for mandatory disposal of the foodstuffs under counter-sanctions which were illegally imported to the territory of the Russian Federation, until December 31, 2017. The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev signed the corresponding decree on August 10. According to the document, the Federal Service for Veterinary…
In June Russia exported the minimum monthly amount of barley over the last few years – 12 KMT. In 2015/2016 Russian barley exports dropped by 20% to 4244 KMT compared to record high result of 2014/2015. Exports decreased in all the key destinations except for Tunisia and Kuwait, where export volumes rose to 73% and…
Russia’s Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal has rejected Google’s complaint against a lower court’s decision that supported the antimonopoly service in finding the U.S. giant guilty of abusing its dominance on the market of preinstalled application stores. “The (lower) court’s decision will stay unchanged, and the appeal will not be satisfied”, the decision read. The…
Russian farmers lost about 50 billion rubles ($781 million) due to implementation of a duty on wheat exports during the last season, head of the Russian Grain Union Arkady Zlochevsky said. “As a result, during the last season farmers lost 1,000 rubles per ton. Last season sales of grain amounted to 52-63 million tons. Respectively…
A meeting on oil taxation issues chaired by Russian Prime Minister’s deputy Arkady Dvorkovich will take place in August, First Deputy Energy Minister Alexei Teksler said. “It has been already slated, it’s August”, Teksler said. The official said that the Energy and the Finance Ministries still had not agreed on a range of issues and…