In October, the Bank of Russia sharply raised the key rate by 2 percentage points to a record level of 21% per annum.

The duty on the export of barley and corn will stand at 1,233.2 rubles ($12.33) and 3,066.5 rubles ($30.64).

Despite the entire climatic agenda, coal will still remain for a long time as an energy resource to support needs of growing economies, the official noted.

Rosstat confirmed earlier national GDP growth by 4.1% year on year in the second quarter of 2024.

Artificial intelligence is a kind of mass media that communicates messages to users, giving answers to hundreds of thousands of queries daily, Ruslan Yunusov noted.

In the first eight months of 2024, trade turnover between Moscow and New Delhi added 9%, Denis Manturov said.

As Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar noted, the signing of a bilateral agreement between the customs authorities of the two countries in May 2024 on Authorized Economic Operators has had a big impact on smoothening the ease of doing trade.

According to the targeted scenario, Russia’s coal export may rise to 350 mln tons by 2050 from 212.5 mln tons in 2023.

"This is the country that survived on fractures of the Soviet Union and became the successor to that once-great power," Dmitry Peskov underlined.

Oksana Lut noted that this year Russian farmers faced unprecedentedly difficult weather conditions.