Ukraine received 1.5 billion U.S. dollars in grant aid from the United States mobilized by the World Bank, the Ukrainian Finance Ministry said Friday on Facebook. The funding is the first tranche of the additional [Read More]
Switzerland has frozen some 7.5 billion Swiss francs (CHF, 7.9 billion U.S. dollars) in Russian assets as of Nov. 25, the country’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) said on Thursday. The assets were frozen [Read More]
Russia’s poverty rate stood at 10.5 percent at the end of the third quarter of 2022, slightly down from 11 percent in the same period last year, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. “The decline [Read More]
Russia registered 5,918 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide tally to 21,574,764, said the official monitoring and response center on Sunday. The center said the nationwide death toll increased by [Read More]
A gunman shot dead three people before committing suicide in Russia’s southern city of Krymsk on Thursday. A local resident born in 1956 inflicted fatal gunshot wounds on two employees in a medical center, TASS [Read More]
Two Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers performed a scheduled flight over the neutral waters of the Barents Sea and the Norwegian Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday. The flight lasted about 13 hours in [Read More]
Ukrainian authorities have set up 3,720 emergency shelters across the country amid an energy supply cutoff after Russia’s missile attack on energy infrastructure, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the Ukrainian president’s office, said Thursday on [Read More]
The Commission has today disbursed the second instalment of €2.5 billion under the €5 billion exceptional macro-financial assistance (MFA) operation for Ukraine. This is part of an MFA package, announced by the Commission in its [Read More]
ANKARA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that his country planned to produce flour from Russian wheat for free delivery to the least developed countries. Erdogan said he had agreed with his [Read More]
ANKARA – More than 4.8 million foreign visitor arrivals were registered in Turkey in October, up by 38.3 percent year on year, official statistics showed on Monday. In October, the top country of origin among [Read More]
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