MOSCOW. Nov 20 (Interfax) - Artificial intelligence is becoming widespread at systemically important Russian banks, possibly because they have the money to develop it at present, the Central Bank said ...

MOSCOW. Nov 20 (Interfax) - DOM.RF government housing corporation IPO revealed good appetite for investing in state companies and the Finance Ministry expects more government-related entities to tap ...

MOSCOW. Nov 20 (Interfax) - The growth of inbound tourism will not exceed 3%-4% in 2025, which is twice less than in 2024, Sergei Romashkin, general director of the Delfin tour operator and Russian ...

VLADIVOSTOK. Nov 20 (Interfax) - X5 Group (X5) (MOEX: X5) has opened a Class A distribution center in Khabarovsk that is designed to supply more than 650 Pyaterochka grocery shops in the Far Eastern ...

MOSCOW. Nov 20 (Interfax) - Delo Group could list on the Moscow Exchange one day, the port terminal operator's founder, Sergei Shishkarev, said.

BISHKEK. Nov 20 (Interfax) - Kyrgyzstan has launched its USDKG stablecoin, backed by gold and pegged to the U.S. dollar, the press office of Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov said. A total of 50 million ...

MOSCOW. Nov 20 (Interfax) - Russia's State Duma passed the 2026-2028 federal budget in its third reading in a meeting on Thursday. The government submitted Bill No. 1026181-8 on the federal budget for ...

Total investor demand for the IPO of PJSC DOM.RF exceeded the initial offering volume of 25 billion rubles by just over threefold, the press service of VTB reported, citing VTB Bank Management Board ...

MOSCOW. Nov 20 (Interfax) - Real GDP growth in Ukraine slowed to 0.5% year-on-year in October 2025 versus 0.9% in September and 6.5% in August this year, Ukrainian media reported, citing a statement ...

KRASNODAR. Nov 20 (Interfax) - Trial grain trading within the unified exchange order book project, which is set to be launched in the ports of Novorossiysk, will begin on December 20. The Agriculture ...

As the IMF mission worked in Kiev on September 3-10, Sviridenko, the NBU governor and the finance minister formally asked the IMF for a new arrangement, tentatively, for 2026-2029. The new arrangement ...

MOSCOW. Nov 20 (Interfax) - Russia's jewelry market grew 11% year-on-year in 9M 2025 to 347 billion rubles, the jewelry company Sokolov said. The average check increased 15% and amounted to 9,935 ...