Following the billionaires Vladimir Potanin (worth $18.1 billion), Oleg Deripaska ($3.6 billion), Leonid Mikhelson ($24 billion) and Alexey Mordashov ($20.5 billion), yet another Forbes’ list member has turned to the Russian government for assistance, reports finanz.ru.

Musa Bazhaev, President of the the Alliance Group, holder of a 40% stake in Russian Platinum and co-owner of the Forte Village Resort in Sardinia, met with President Vladimir Putin on Monday in the Kremlin.

After reporting to …

Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has allocated 252 million hryvnia, the equivalent of around $10.41 million at current exchange rates, for purchasing a scientific ice-breaker ship for Ukrainian scientists studying Antarctica.

The decision was made on November 20, the Cabinet of Ministers said in a press statement.

The purchase deal is expected to be signed before the end of 2019, and the ship will depart on its first voyage in 2020.

“Ukraine’s purchase of a ship of this class will enable us to …

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will become operational "in the middle of the next year [2020]," without specifying the exact month, reports TASS.

Earlier, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak reported that gas supplies through the Nord Stream 2 pipeline could begin before the end of 2019. "Depending on the schedule of this project, we will decide when the construction of the pipeline can be continued," said Novak.

On November 13, the …

During a briefing, broadcasted by Russia 24 TV channel, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that Russia intends to monitor the deployment of NATO’s weapons in space.

"We will closely monitor how the assurances of NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, that NATO doesn't have intentions to place weapons in space, will be implemented," she said, commenting on the decision of the North Atlantic Alliance to recognize space as a new operational domain for NATO.

According to …

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia will continue to develop its new weapon “no matter what”. In August, there was an explosion during the testing of this weapon at the Nyonoksa Test Range near Severodvinsk which killed seven people and emitted radiation.

Putin commented on the catastrophe in the Kremlin on Thursday while conferring the Order of Courage, which was posthumously awarded to the victims, to their relatives.

The Russian president did not say directly what kind of …

Latvian National Electronic Mass Media Council (NEPLP) decided to stop the broadcast of nine TV channels in Latvia.

According to the state-owned Latvian Television TV channel, "Vremya: dalekoye i blizkoye", "Bobjor", "Dom Kino", "Dom Kino PREMIUM", ""Muzika Pervogo", "O!", "Poyekhali", "TELECAFE" and "Peterburg – 5 kanal" were included to the list of banned TV channels.

All the channels belong to a holding company whose beneficiary is Russian billionaire Yury Kovalchuk. Kovalchuk remains …

Serbian intelligence has uncovered a large-scale intelligence-gathering operation jointly carried out by Russian spies and Serbian soldiers, announced Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

Vucic made the statement after convening a National Security Council session in light of a video published on YouTube which shows a Russian special agent paying money to a Serbian citizen in Belgrade.

The Serbian authorities have identified the Russian as Lt. Col. Georgy Kleban, a former assistant military …

The gas demand in China is significantly lower than predicted by the Russian government, and a supply surplus has arisen on China’s internal market, Interfax Energy reports, citing the senior managers of Chinese energy companies.

In 2020 the surplus will be around 9 billion cubic meters (bcm), predicts Sinopec, China’s second largest oil and gas corporation by extraction volume.

With the Chinese government’s goal of using gas to provide 10% of the country’s energy mix by the end of 2020 (360 …