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Russian officials and representatives of metals and fertiliser producers failed to reach consensus on Wednesday on how to implement the government plan to change taxes for them, six sources familiar with details of their meeting told Reuters.

The Russian government will request flights out of Afghanistan in September for Afghan students who are planning to study in Russia, the embassy said in a statement on Tuesday.

Moscow pledged retaliatory measures after a new set of sanctions imposed by the United States on a Russian ship and two companies involved in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, Russias foreign... | August 21, 2021

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Uzbekistan has accepted about 400 more refugees from Afghanistan and put them up in temporary accommodation near the Afghan border,...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Uzbekistan has accepted about 400 more refugees from Afghanistan and put them up in temporary accommodation near the Afghan border, the Russian state news agency TASS reported on Saturday, citing an unnamed source familiar with the matter. It is unclear how many Afghans have crossed into the former Soviet republic as Taliban insurgents overran Afghanistan. The Tashkent government has denied that senior Afghan figures such as ethnic Uzbek leader Abdul Rashid Dustum were among t...

AFGHANISTAN-CONFLICT/UZBEKISTAN:Uzbekistan accepts 400 more refugees from Afghanistan - Russian state media

Russia’s agriculture ministry has paused its daily publication of grain harvesting data while it refines the reporting format used by the country’s growing regions, the ministry said. Russia is the world’s largest wheat exporter, supplying it mainly to Africa and the Middle East. It competes with the European Union and Ukraine. The ministry “is currently ...

The European Commission has adopted a measure allowing farmers to receive higher advances of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payments. This measure will support and increase the cash flow to farmers affected by the COVID-19 crisis and by the impact of adverse weather conditions across the EU. Some regions have been deeply affected by floods, for […]

7/30/2021 MOSCOW, July 30 (Reuters) - VTB, will cease to own a controlling stake in rail freight transportation firm Rustranscom (RTC) within a year, Russias second largest bank told reporters, but did not disclose how this would happen. VTB bought 50% plus one share in RTC, Russias largest grain railcar owner, for 29.6 billion roubles ($403 million) in 2019 when it was expanding in grain export infrastructure in Russia, the worlds largest wheat exporter. "We have included a company that owns R...

EU Reporter Published 46 seconds ago During a televised session with ordinary Russians last month, a woman pressed President Vladimir Putin on high food prices, write Polina Devitt and Darya Korsunskaya. Valentina Sleptsova challenged the president on why bananas from Ecuador are now cheaper in Russia than domestically-produced carrots and asked how her mother can survive on a “subsistence wage” with the cost of staples like potatoes so high, according to a recording of the annual event. P...