Developers have started refusing to build new residential buildings in Russia’s largest cities. By the end of 2025, the largest reduction in new projects occurred in Ufa — by 35% year-on-year, in Moscow — by 29.2%, in Rostov-on-Don — by 29.6%, and in Samara — by 23%. This follows from the data of the Unified…
In 2025, the rates for freight transport by road in Russia increased by an average of 12%. However, the increase was more significant on certain routes. For example, the cost of transporting goods on the routes from Moscow to St. Petersburg and from Voronezh to Volgograd increased by 30%, and from Omsk to Novosibirsk —…
Nornickel’s multi-billion dollar project to build a copper plant in China, which the company’s CEO Vladimir Potanin announced in 2024, is on the verge of collapse. The Chinese partner decided to withdraw from the project, which planned to build a facility with a capacity of 500,000 tons of copper per year in the Fangchenggang port…
The development of non-raw material exports has been and remains one of Ukraine’s priorities. It is fundamentally important for the Government that Ukrainian exporters feel real, systematic and predictable support from the state – at a level that has long been the standard for business in developed economies. This was stated by the Minister of…
The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, emphasized that Bulgaria’s economy continued to perform strongly despite ongoing political uncertainty. She warned that the country must avoid letting its budget deficit grow and urged both caretaker and regular governments to adopt careful fiscal policies. Georgieva noted that Bulgaria was already reaping benefits from…
The European Commission on January 27 approved defence financing for Lithuania under the Security Action for Europe (SAFE) initiative, preliminarily allocating the country more than 6.3 billion euros in loans, with the final amount to be confirmed once the agreement is signed. European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius said the latest round of…
For security reasons, technological processes at a critical infrastructure facility attacked by Russian forces in the morning of January 27 were halted. This was announced on Facebook by Serhii Koretskyi, CEO of Naftogaz Ukrainy. “In the morning of January 27, Russians attacked a critical infrastructure facility of the Naftogaz Group in the western region. As…