Several countries want to change their status in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and work more closely with the association, Putin calls to expand the use of the digital ruble, and Venezuela’s Maduro believes he’s a shoo-in to be re-elected as president. These stories topped Thursday’s newspaper headlines across Russia.

European stock markets opened Monday at a nearly six-month low, the media reported, amid a global sell-off fueled by concerns about a slowdown in US economic growth

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 by an unknown person or a group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto

The Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced the intention to bring trade between the two countries to $250 bln in 2024 at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Liu Xu noted

The Bank of Russia carries out purchase and sale operations on the domestic market in the currency section of the Moscow Exchange in the yuan-ruble instrument

Amid endless sanctions and Russia’s disconnection from SWIFT, the Bank of Russia has developed its own payment system, which many countries have already joined, Valentina Matviyenko noted