Contracts with domestic energy firms are aimed at boosting daily production in major fields of the sanctions-hit country

Crude prices soared to $86 per barrel on Monday, hitting a four-month high, with industry experts attributing the surge to China’s strong economic data and Ukraine’s drone attacks on Russian oil refineries.

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.