As the annual high-level Munich Security Conference gets underway, the Russia-Ukraine war is dominating the agenda, and we speak to two guests protesting the conference. Economist, progressive leader ...

Russia's fiscal deficit jumped 14-fold in January due to a 73.6% increase in spending at the start of the year, reaching 1.7 ...

More than 40 protest rallies are planned against the security conference in Munich this weekend. Honest, paywall-free news is ...

The Russian government is reportedly keen on issuing digital ruble benefits payments, but experts think adoption hurdles await Moscow’s CBDC.

By Ben Aris in Berlin When I first met Kirill Dmitriev he was one of the bright young things of the Russian business ...

Russia may be forced to throttle back its oil output in the coming months as U.S. sanctions hamper its access to tankers to ...

Russia’s state expenditures surged in January, pushing the month’s budget deficit to exceed the government’s target for the ...

The funds of the National Welfare Fund of the Russian Federation, which was actively spent on patching budget ‘holes’ after ...

MOSCOW. Feb 10 (Interfax) - The Russian government has decided not to pay the contribution to the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) for 2024, under a document signed by Prime Minister Mikhail ...

The Kremlin continues to conduct an information campaign directed toward both domestic and international audiences that aims ...

MOSCOW. Feb 11 (Interfax) - Russia had a federal budget deficit of 1.706 trillion rubles or 0.8% of GDP according to preliminary data in January 2025, the Finance Ministry said in a monthly brief. The ...

More than three decades after leaving the Soviet Union, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have begun to unplug from Russia's ...