The Russian government will factor in continuing sanctions against the country in the 2017-2019 budget draft, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said. “While writing up the draft we base, as we have repeatedly discussed, on a cautious estimate of the economic situation on global markets, a conservative estimate. In particular, due to a quite low trend…
Moscow sees the forthcoming negotiations with OPEC during an energy summit in Istanbul as an important step to an oil production cut agreement and expects that it will be reached before a November meeting of OPEC, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak reported. “In Istanbul, we initially planned to hold consultations with the countries present there.…
Russia’s consolidated budget deficit increased by 6.1% to 904.046 billion rubles in January-August. Budget revenues stood at 17.198 trillion rubles as of September 1, and spending amounted to 18.102 trillion rubles. Russia’s federal budget deficit stood at 1.445 trillion rubles in the period, with revenue of 8.144 trillion rubles and spending of 9.589 trillion rubles.…
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and its partners have refrained from participation in privatization of a 50.08% stake in oil company Bashneft as the price is too high, RDIF CEO Kirill Dmitriev reported. Earlier the government allowed state-owned oil major Rosneft to buy the stake for no more than 330 billion rubles by October…
Russian state-owned oil major Rosneft may buy 19.5% in itself during privatization, Vice President Mikhail Leontyev said. “The corporation is seriously studying the possibility of buying its shares from the owner, I mean the government”, he said. The practice of buying own shares is wide-spread. “This is some kind of paranoia which is taking place…
OPEC’s most senior official will discuss the possible participation of Russia in an OPEC production cut, officials in the group said, as the cartel sought to bolster a landmark deal in Algiers. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to cut between 200,000 barrels a day and 700,000 barrels a day of their output…
The Islamic fund on microfinance might be created in Azerbaijan, a source on the country’s finance market reported. The source said that the issue was being discussed by Azerbaijan’s microfinance organizations. “The discussions are still at a very early stage, but if market participants agree and adopt a certain decision, then international financial organizations can…