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20 Feb 2021 / 22:12 H. (Writes through to add context about this strain of bird flu) By Polina Devitt and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber MOSCOW, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Russia has registered the first case of a strain of bird flu virus named A(H5N8) being passed to humans from birds and has reported the matter to the World Health Organization (WHO), Anna Popova, head of consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, said on Saturday. Outbreaks of the H5N8 strain have been reported in Russia, Europe, China, ...

2/20/2021 By Polina Devitt and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber MOSCOW, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Russia has registered the first case of a strain of bird flu virus named A(H5N8) being passed to humans from birds and has reported the matter to the World Health Organization (WHO), Anna Popova, head of consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, said on Saturday. Outbreaks of the H5N8 strain have been reported in Russia, Europe, China, the Middle East and North Africa in recent months but so far only in poultry...

Russian wheat export prices fell for the fourth consecutive week last week amid a decline in prices in Chicago and Paris and rising supply in the domestic market, analysts said on Monday. Moscow’s wheat export tax and a grain export quota, launched on Monday as part of efforts to reduce food inflation amid the coronavirus ...

By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read MOSCOW, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan on Friday banned foreign companies from future large mining projects, although existing licences are unaffected, in the first major order by its new president. The economy of the Central Asian nation relies heavily on gold mining, particularly after two other sources of wealth - trade with neighbouring China and remittances from migrant labourers working in Russia - were hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japaro...

(Adds comment from Nornickel, Russia’s deputy PM, Greenpeace, analyst, updates shares) MOSCOW, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel was fined $2 billion on Friday for the damage caused by a huge fuel spill last year in the country’s worst environmental disaster in the Arctic. The leakage in May of 21,000 tonnes of diesel into the rivers and subsoil near Norilsk in Siberia infuriated Russian President Vladimir Putin and the size of the penalty sent a message to Russian compa...

Russia, one of the world's largest wheat exporters, is preparing a permanent grain export mechanism and plans to launch it on April 1, economy minister Maxim Reshetnikov told a meeting with President Vladimir Putin on Thursday.

Article content MOSCOW — Russia’s plan to control food inflation by curbing grain exports is following a potentially damaging path trod by rival producer Argentina, threatening valuable sales to major customers such as Egypt, traders and analysts said. With global food prices at their highest in more than 6 years as economies battle fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, some governments have already taken action to tackle surging domestic prices. We apologize, but this video has failed to loa...

2/4/2021 (Adds details, quotes, context) MOSCOW, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Russia, one of the worlds largest wheat exporters, plans to launch a permanent grain export mechanism on April 1, its economy minister Maxim Reshetnikov said on Thursday in a meeting with President Vladimir Putin. The mechanism is a formula-based export tax for grain to which Moscow, which is trying to curb rising food prices amid the coronavirus crisis, previously planned to switch from fixed-size tariffs which it imposed from ...

By Reuters Staff 1 Min Read MOSCOW, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Russia, one of the world’s largest wheat exporters, is preparing a permanent grain export mechanism and plans to launch it on April 1, economy minister Maxim Reshetnikov told a meeting with President Vladimir Putin on Thursday. Putin said that there was also a need to prepare a mechanism for support of grain producers. Moscow is trying to curb rising domestic food prices amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Reporting by Polina Devitt and Darya ...

Russian opposition leader Navalny attends a court hearing in Moscow MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Tuesday, ignoring the West in a ruling the opposition politician blamed on President Vladimir Putin’s personal hatred and fear of him. The Moscow court handed Navalny a three-and-a-half-year sentence, but his lawyer said the anti-corruption blogger would actually serve two years and eight months in jail because of time already spent under house a...