MOSCOW. Sept 30 (Interfax) - The Russian Finance Ministry has increased its estimate of the 2024 federal budget deficit to 3.296 trillion rubles, or 1.7% of GDP, from the current 2.12 trillion rubles, ...

MOSCOW. Sept 30 (Interfax) - The Gazprom Group's natural and associated gas production in Russia increased 16% to 208.14 billion cubic meters in H1 2024 from 179.45 bcm in H1 2023, PJSC Gazprom said ...

Russia produced 763 bcm of gas in 2021 and 676 bcm in 2022. Gas production has fallen significantly in 2022 and 2023 due to a reduction in westerly gas flows. On the other hand, domestic consumption ...

Kazakh farmers produced 16.6 million tonnes of grain, including 12.11 million tonnes of wheat, with an average yield of 9.7 centners per hectare in 2023. In 2022, the harvest was 21.6 million tonnes.

MOSCOW. Sept 30 (Interfax) - Russia exported 3.8 million tonnes of sunflower oil in the first eight months of 2024, 28% more than in the same period of last year, the Agriculture Ministry's Agroexport ...

MOSCOW. Sept 30 (Interfax) - The tariffs of power grid operators for power transmission in Russia for all categories of consumers might be indexed by 11.6% from July next year, according to the ...

MINSK. Sept 30 (Interfax) - Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko has said he will meet with his Russian counterpart Mikhail Mishustin on the sidelines of a meeting of the Eurasian ...

TEHRAN. Sept 30 (Interfax) - Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has arrived in Iran for an official visit. Mishustin is to hold negotiations with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and First ...

Russia's federal budget deficit totaled about 1.098 trillion rubles in 7M 2024, thus the government had a federal budget surplus totaling nearly 1.071 trillion rubles in August.

MOSCOW. Sept 30 (Interfax) - Executing Russia's federal budget within the "fiscal rule" should assist in curbing the inflationary processes, the Finance Ministry said. The government submitted the ...

MOSCOW. Sept 30 (Interfax) - The Russian government has submitted the bill "On the federal budget for 2025 and the 2026-2027 planning period" to the State Duma, and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin ...

ASHGABAT. Sept 30 (Interfax) - Turkmenistan is set to increase its natural gas and electricity supplies to the member countries of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), Turkmen Foreign Minister ...