"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) - 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 ...

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 ...

"The complexity of the budget declaration issue is now due to the fact that we would need to reduce the GDP deficit from this year's 19.4% to 9.9% next year in accordance with the IMF program. It is a ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...