Author: Steven Sahiounie

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi congratulated Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin Tuesday on his landslide re-election, his spokesman said.El-Sisi “extended his sincere congratulations” to Putin, whose election for a fifth term with 87.28 percent of the vote “reflects the confidence of the Russian people,” according to the presidency’s statement.El-Sisi “wished him success and the Russian people further progress and prosperity.”Putin had run effectively unchallenged in the election, with only loyalist candidates allowed on the ballot in a process that Washington dismissed as “incredibly undemocratic.”El-Sisi had himself won a third term with 89.6 percent of the vote in a December election in…

Poland’s prime minister previously called for an end to preferential trade rules granted to Kiev due to the conflict with Moscow

The European Union is preparing to impose tariffs on grain imports from Russia and Belarus under pressure from protesting farmers and some bloc members, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

TransContainer is a Russian intermodal container operator, which is wholly owned by the Delo group of companies

MOSCOW, March 18. /TASS/. The first group of tourists from Tehran arrived in Moscow under the agreement on group visa-free travel between Russia and Iran. A plane carrying Iranian citizens landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport (VKO), according to a TASS reporter.

MOSCOW, March 18. /TASS/. The Council of Duma has approved the date of the annual report of the Central Bank in the State Duma as April 10, an informed source in the lower house of the Russian legislative assembly told TASS.

Following the cabinet meeting, Alexander Novak requested drafting proposals on further improvement of roadmaps on development of hydrogen energy

The dollar-to-ruble rate dropped by 1.1% to 91.8 rubles, while the euro-to-ruble rate we down by 1.16%, to 100.05 rubles

“It is designed to cut untwined steel and aluminum wires and ground wires of power transmission lines that occur as a result of lightning strikes or corrosion,” the National Technology Initiative Platform said

Moscow repudiates the United States’ assessment of Russia’s presidential election and has no intention of heeding it, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said. Earlier, a US National Security Council (NSC) official told journalists that Washington had slammed Russia’s presidential election as “neither free nor fair.” “We categorically reject this assessment. Speaking to journalists late in the evening yesterday, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin noted that such assessments were quite expected and predictable,” Peskov said, adding that the United States “is deeply involved” in the conflict in Ukraine. “As a matter of fact, this country is fighting against us. Obviously, other assessments…