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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in New York, where he will participate in meetings of the UN Security Council on the Middle East and Ukraine.According to a TASS correspondent, the minister's plane flew from Moscow to the United States via the northern route, bypassing unfriendly n...
Business & Commerce
The Chinese government will try to keep the positive trend in trade and investment relations going with Russia, official spokesperson of China's Ministry of Commerce He Yadong said."The Ministry of Commerce together with the relevant authorities will endeavor to implement the important cons...
World oil supply is forecast to rise to a new high of 103.5 mln barrels per day in 2024, fueled by record-setting output from the US, Brazil, Guyana and Canada, the IEA (International Energy Agency) said in its January Oil Market Report.Non-OPEC+ production will dominate growth this year, accounting...
Russia may become a global leader in terms of LNG (liquefied natural gas) production and outpace Qatar, the world's largest LNG exporter, in the midterm, with the total potential of Russian liquefied gas production considering the launch of all promising projects estimated at over 200 mln tons p...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will travel to New York to personally participate in a debate on the Middle East and a meeting on Ukraine at the UN Security Council from January 22-24, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said."Yes," she said when asked if the minist...
China is strongly against visits of US Congress delegations to Taiwan and any official communications between the US authorities and the region, Spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in Washington Liu Pengyu told TASS."Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. China firmly opposes the US having any...
The price of Bitcoin rose above $47,000 for the first time since March 30, 2022, according to the Coindesk platform. As of 22:59 Moscow time, the bitcoin grew by 6.33% to $47,054. By 23:08 Moscow time, the figure had slowed down and reached $47,035 (+6.28%). Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency inv...
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has attacked over 100 targets in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours during its operation against Palestinian radicals from the Hamas movement, the army press service reported."Over the past day, IDF aerial, ground, and naval forces struck over 100 terror targe...
Russian troops have destroyed more than 5,900 mercenaries, who took part in fighting in the ranks of the Ukrainian armed forces, the Russian Defense Ministry said in an annual digest of the Russian Armed Forces’ activities in 2023."In total, more than 13,500 mercenaries have arrived in Uk...
The OPEC+ Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee's next meeting is scheduled for February 1 in order to focus on the situation in the oil market and will be held virtually, a source in one of the delegations told TASS."On February 1, online," the source said.The meetings of the Joint M...
Russia's economy has grown by 2.7% in 2023, and is projected to increase by 1.3% in 2024, Shantanu Mukherjee, Director of the Economic Analysis and Policy Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), said during a briefing."We estimated that <...> in 2023 the R...
The Bitcoin prices surged above $45,000 during the trading session for the first time since April 5, 2022, according to Coindesk data.As of 04:05 a.m. Moscow time, the cost of bitcoin grew by 6.33% to $45,173. By 04:09 a.m. Moscow time, bitcoin continued to grow and was at $45,374 (+6.93%).Bitcoin i...
Restrictions on the import of Russian diamonds into G7 countries and restrictions on deliveries of diamonds to the European Union under the EU's 12th package of sanctions have taken effect as of January 1, 2024, but experts surveyed by TASS doubt that the ban will be very effective.In December, ...
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) reported the death of 142 of its staffers in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip."Our teams are doing the impossible to help people in need. We mourn the loss of more UNRWA colleagues killed in Gaza, now 142, the majority...
Russian troops have destroyed over 10,000 drones of the Ukrainian army since the beginning of the special military operation, the Defense Ministry said. "A total of 558 aircraft, 261 helicopters, 10,040 drones, 442 anti-aircraft missile systems, 14,299 tanks and other armored combat vehicl...
The US authorities are trying to intimidate Russia's partners taking new sanctions steps, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said, adding that such actions virtually foil the possibility of restoration of the mutually respectful dialogue between Washington and Moscow."M...
Former US President Donald Trump has said that he has never read Adolf Hitler's works and that he is not his follower. "I know nothing about Hitler. I'm not a student of Hitler. I never read his works," Trump said in an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt when commenting on accus...
Russian oil exports are 7% higher than the figure in 2021, First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov said."Crude oil exports are 7% above the figure of 2021 and are about 250 mln metric tons. Russian energy export in the money equivalent reached indicators of the year of 2021 and remains at a...
The European Union's 12th package of sanctions against Russia will not inflict any material harm on the Russian economy but is jeopardizing the EU itself because of the potential loss of additional sales markets, Jacques Sapir, research director at the Paris-based Higher School of Social Science...
The Israeli military has destroyed "thousands of militants and hundreds of commanders" of armed formations affiliated with the radical Palestinian movement Hamas during an operation in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said."The fight against Hamas is very successfu...
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