Jets used for corporate travel by Russian state-owned oil major Rosneft flew at least 13 times to Mallorca, Ibiza, Sardinia and the Maldives when CEO Igor Sechin or people from his social circle were in the same vacation spots. Using publicly available data, Reuters tracked 290 Rosneft flights between January, 2015 and May, 2019. Of those round trips, 96 took place during Russian public holidays or between ... Read More »

A US intelligence report on Russian hacking concluded that Russian military intelligence relayed material to WikiLeaks and other websites that published emails hacked from Democratic Party organizations. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange insisted earlier this week that the hacked material his site published was not provided by the Russian government or ... Read More »

The price of oil jumped after Russia and Saudi Arabia agreed to discuss ways to stabilise the oil market. The announcement was made by the countries’ energy ministers, Alexander Novak and Khalid al-Falih. The price of Brent crude initially jumped by 5% but then fell to to stand 1.6% higher ... Read More »

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has blasted a reporter over her question on allegations that Russia was behind the DNC email leaks. Lavrov had a concise reply, stating: “I don’t want to use four-letter words.”“I mean this is time and time again, lie after lie. You notice he [Mook] won’t ... Read More »

An economist at a Russian development bank said Tuesday any deal among major oil producers last weekend would’ve been moot because markets are flush with oil. Ministers from some members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries joined their non-member counterparts in Doha during the weekend to consider a measure ... Read More »

Airbus Group (AIR.PA) has not expressed an intention to take a stake in Russian Helicopters, an Airbus spokesman said on Sunday. Russian economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev said on Friday that the European aerospace company was interested in the privatization of the state-owned Russian Helicopters for which Russia is looking for ... Read More »

MOSCOW, April 12 — Russian Helicopters Holding Company says it is equipping five models of its military aircraft with a new on-board system to defend against MANPAD missiles and air-to-air missiles. The defensive system is called President-S, which features a laser illumination detector, an ultraviolet missile approach warning system, an ... Read More »