Russian consumer demand grew by 4.8% in the first half of 2026, twice the rate recorded a year earlier. The indicator, based on household spending on retail goods, paid services, and food-service establishments, shows that retail purchases accounted ...

Russian tourists are increasingly avoiding Crimea and Sochi for summer vacations, with Crimea experiencing a severe decline in demand. Data on independent hotel bookings—excluding pre-packaged tours—shows a 40% collapse in visitor numbers for the...

Vladivostok has seen 1.8 million tourists since the start of the year, nearly returning to the visitor levels recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic. Sergey Dmitrienko, First Deputy Head of the City Administration, reported these figures during the 11...

Russia's economic model is structured to maintain high inflation due to a chronic imbalance between the volume of goods and the money supply, according to Valentin Katasonov, Doctor of Economic Sciences and Chairman of the Russian Economic Society na...

Residents of the Sakhalin region spent an average of 69,300 rubles per month during the first half of 2026, placing the island region third in Russia for average monthly consumer expenditures. Only Moscow and Saint Petersburg recorded higher spending...

Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov arrived in the United States for a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Asheville, North Carolina, where he met with his American counterpart, Scott Bessent. Fox Business correspondent Edward Lawrence reported t...

An apparent staging of an attack at Leipzig Airport was needed by Kyiv to pressure Berlin into supplying long-range Taurus missiles and to draw NATO into direct confrontation with Russia, said military expert, Hero of Russia and veteran of the war in...

Russia is making efforts to bring the conflict in Ukraine to an end, President Vladimir Putin said during talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Bishkek. During the mee...

Saudi Arabia is moving to secure its energy export corridors as it faces a functional blockade of critical maritime routes. The necessity of this strategy, according to security expert Igor Gerasimov, stems from a volatile mix of economic survival an...

Hungary cannot survive current economic pressures without Russian energy, and Budapest's aggressive rhetoric is merely a short-term tactic to pressure Moscow, says Lyudmila Adilova, professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities and Doc...

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