Last year Russian gas ensured around 40% of Europe’s demand, the agency informed.

The Innoprom international industrial exhibition, Russia’s key industrial, trade and export fair, is running in Yekaterinburg from July 4 to 7.

The restrictions were introduced in March 2020 over the threat of the coronavirus infection.

All rights and obligations, as well as the property of Sakhalin Energy will be transferred to a new stock company.

Hard coal production contracted by 3.7% to 141 mln tonnes in the reporting period.

Maria Zakharova stressed that "it is Washington, Brussels and London that are doing everything to really artificially escalate the situation" with the export of grain.

Tokyo will continue monitoring the situation on the market, Shun’ichi Suzuki noted.

In February, Russian maritime exports of oil products amounted to just under 3 million b/d, while in June - 1.9 million b/d.

It is extremely difficult to instantaneously restructure the entire settlement system from yesterday's reserve currencies, the regulator's first deputy governor Vladimir Chistyukhin stressed.

There also are plans to discuss pressing global and regional issues.