MOSCOW. April 24 (Interfax) - VTB forecasts that the retail savings market will grow by 20% to 69 trillion rubles in 2025, but it plans to grow faster than this, the Russian state bank's vice ...

Ukraine's proposal contained two options. The first provided for the exchange of GDP warrants for Eurobonds issued in the framework of their restructuring in 2024, with an exchange ratio of 1.35x (GDP ...

At the same time, Turkmenistan's oil production may slightly increase. "It will exceed 8 million tonnes, with a possible growth of 5%-10%. We will reach last year's level and a little more," the ...

MOSCOW. April 24 (Interfax) - Russia's GDP growth in 2025 will be slightly lower than the pace seen in 2024, but this slowdown was anticipated and targeted when officials previously spoke about the ...

Bezymyanny, one of the world's most active volcanos, is located in Kamchatka, near Klyuchevskaya Sopka, about 40 kilometers from Klyuchi in the Ust-Kamchatsk district. It is 2,882 meters tall.

BISHKEK. April 24 (Interfax) - Kyrgyzstan will build 18 small hydropower plants (HPPs) before the end of 2025, President Sadyr Japarov said at the Global Mountain Dialogue for Sustainable Development: ...

MOSCOW. April 24 (Interfax) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal has met with U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent in Washington, Ukrainian media said. Shmygal is visiting Washington for a ...

MOSCOW. April 24 (Interfax) - Norway is providing a new contribution of NOK 2.4 billion to the World Bank's Ukraine Relief, Recovery, Reconstruction and Reform Trust Fund (URTF), a multi-donor trust ...

MOSCOW. April 24 (Interfax) - Ukraine requires $17.3 billion for priority recovery efforts in 2025, $7.4 billion of which is currently secured through the Ukrainian budget and donors' support, local ...

"Engines of the Progress MS-30 resupply ship latched on to the International Space Station were started at 3:08 a.m. today and ran for 639.7 seconds, giving an impetus of 1.22 meters per second," ...

MOSCOW. April 24 (Interfax) - VTB has two potential buyers for the Rosgosstrakh insurer, VTB chief Andrei Kostin said.

MOSCOW. April 24 (Interfax) - Switching to charging turnover fines for violations of the law on advertising by financial institutions would at least quintuple the size of such fines, the head of the ...