The EU continues working to secure a lasting peace, as it has done in the past few years, i.e. applying sanctions and providing comprehensive aid to Ukraine, "to the administration, military, to the ...

MOSCOW. Aug 19 (Interfax) - The prospects for supplies of Russian grain and fertilizers to Sierra Leone have been discussed during a meeting between specialists from the Federal Service for Veterinary ...

CHISINAU. Aug 19 (Interfax) - Moldova will build a 250 MW cogeneration thermal power plant by 2030 and decommission the outdated Sursa-2 CHP (formerly CHP-1), which provides the energy supply to ...

BAKU. Aug 19 (Interfax) - The government of Azerbaijan has lowered its estimate for the country's GDP growth in 2025 by 0.7 percentage points (p.p.) to 3%, with the updated macro forecast for 2025 ...

YEREVAN. Aug 19 (Interfax) - Armenia and Iran intend to build a second bridge on the joint border, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said.

"They confirmed that the isolation strategy has failed," Orban said on Facebook (owned by Meta Platforms Inc., designated an extremist organization and proscribed in Russia). "They confirmed that ...

BISHKEK. Aug 19 (Interfax) - The Kyrgyz Defense Ministry is preparing to evacuate Russian climber Natalia Nagovitsyna, who has been stranded on Victory Peak 7,200 meters above sea level for seven days ...

Mutual trade between Russia and China since the beginning of the current year has shown a certain decline against the backdrop of sanctions pressure and market conditions in various commodity markets, ...

MOSCOW. Aug 19 (Interfax) - The Port of Klaipeda in Estonia has begun building a green hydrogen production and bunkering station, the first in the Baltic states. All construction and installation work ...

MOSCOW. Aug 19 (Interfax) - The average interest rate on hryvnia loans to businesses in Ukraine went up by 1.4 percentage points to 16.9% per annum, which is the highest interest rate since April 2024 ...

MOSCOW. Aug 19 (Interfax) - Russia is not rejecting any Ukraine settlement formats, yet summit contacts need to be thoroughly prepared, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

MOSCOW. Aug 19 (Interfax) - Russia's MAX national messenger service now has 18 million users, the service's press office said.