In January-June Russia increased cereal crops export volumes by 37.9% YoY to 13.484 million tons, the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) reported. According to the announcement, in the reporting period wheat and meslin traditionally formed the basis of grain export supplies – 9.306 million tons, up by 68.6% YoY. Also, the exports of Russian corn…
Two Russian carriers have received a permission to operate flights to Azerbaijan on two routes from the new Zhukovsky International Airport in Moscow, said the website of Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia). The protocol of the interdepartmental commission on the admission of carriers to perform international transportation, posted on the website of Rosaviatsia said…
Russia’s communications ministry has worked out draft amendments to the connection law to ensure integrity, faultlessness and stability of local Internet, and the measures were discussed at a meeting on Thursday. A person familiar with the matter said the meeting was held by Deputy Communications Minister Alexei Sokolov and attended by presidential aide for the…
The Russian government will grant 48 billion rubles of guarantees to the military companies, which are fulfilling a state order, in 2016, according to a ruling published at the government’s web site for disclosure of legal information. The guarantees will be granted against loans raised by the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, air…
As of August 18, Russian agrarians continued harvesting grains and pulses. Agrarians harvested grain crops throughout the areas of 23.8 million ha (on the same date in 2015 – 21 million ha), or 50.3% of the planned areas (47.3 million ha). The produced volumes reached 76.1 million tons of grains, with the average yield of…
The Ministry of Agriculture of Russia suggested the government to zero the export duties on wheat until July 1, 2017, the head of the department of agribusiness market regulation at the Ministry of Agriculture Vladimir Volik declared. According to him, the government will debate about the issue in the nearest weeks. It is not the…
The arbiter panel of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in general supports an E.U. case against Russia’s prohibition of imports of its pork products, according to a WTO statement. The arbiters say that several measures introduced by Russia contradict the country’s WTO obligations. On January 30, 2014, the Russian veterinary authority prohibited imports of European…