Earlier, the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund said that the fund was at the final stage of negotiations with South Korea on the possibility of manufacturing Russian vaccine against the coronavirus Sputnik V.

Flights to these countries will be performed once a week.

The government also decided to approve the draft guidelines for the unified state monetary policy for 2021 and the period of 2022-2023.

RDIF has also reached a number of agreements with China.

Finance Minister Anton Siuanov emphasized that the privileges provided do not reflect the real degree of depletion of the fields, the calculations are still based on information based on data for 2006.

Deliveries are expected to start in November 2020.

Under the current prices, the volume of GDP is estimated at 48.606 trillion rubles $644 bln) in the first half of 2020.

Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s telephone conversation with Foreign Minister of Malaysia Hishammuddin Hussein.

One of the growth factors of the segment was the program with cashback for trips across Russia, launched by the government this year, according to the bank.

A reduced competition between producers is a result of a decline in investments in the industry.