MOSCOW. June 5 (Interfax) - Inflation in Ukraine in May 2025, according to estimates by the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), probably reached a local high and slightly exceeded the regulator's forecast ...

"Russia is currently introducing AI in the sphere of public administration: bureaucratic procedures are being automated, a qualitatively different level of control and decision-making is being ensured ...

MOSCOW. June 5 (Interfax) - Net losses of Ukraine's export linked to the European Union's restoring the pre-crisis trade regime on June 6 will reach about $800 million in June-December 2025, Ukrainian ...

MOSCOW. June 5 (Interfax) - Gazprom , together with Gazprom Neft , remained the second biggest oil and gas condensate producer in Russia in 2024, Gazprom said in its draft annual report.

ASTANA. June 5 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan has started to build a plant in the Atyrau region to fractionate liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from the Kashagan field, the Energy Ministry said.

MINSK. June 5 (Interfax) - The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Council of the Heads of Government will hold its next meeting in Minsk, Belarus, on September 30, the Belarusian state-run news ...

MOSCOW. June 5 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian government will shortly request the Verkhovna Rada to revise the 2025 state budget due to new needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Ukrainian media reported, ...

In mid-April, the NBU also kept the key policy rate at the level of 15.5% after increasing it three times since mid-December 2024. Even earlier, it maintained it at 15% for six months after it was ...

VANINO. June 5 (Interfax) - JSC Daltransugol (DTU), a coal terminal at the port of Vanino managed by JSC Port Alliance, has completed a project to expand the terminal's capacity to 32.8 million tonnes ...

ASTANA. June 5 (Interfax) - Five banks in Kazakhstan have joined the National Bank's pilot project to launch crypto cards, National Bank governor Timur Suleimenov said. The participating banks are ...

Gazprom boosted gas supplies to Uzbekistan to 5.64 billion cubic meters in 2024 from 1.28 bcm in 2023, the company said in its annual report. The company began exporting gas to Uzbekistan in October ...

BAKU. June 5 (Interfax) - The Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) earned $491.6 million in income from managing its foreign exchange reserves in 2024, setting a record high, the CBA told Interfax. As ...