Russia expects to sign an intergovernmental gas pipeline agreement with Turkey in the second quarter of 2015 in order to start the first gas deliveries in December 2016, Russian energy company Gazprom announced on Tuesday.

Photographer Andrey Parshakov destroys stereotypes about Chukotka as desert land of permafrost.

Osnova Gallery presents Ghostly, the first personal project of the young artist Sasha Pichushkin.

Biopic TV series about the classical Russian writer Alexander Griboyedov will be made soon.

Popular US-based TV channel CNN plans to resume its broadcasting in Russia as soon as possible, a representative from of Turner Broadcasting System International (TBSI) company, told the press on Monday.

Russian HIV vaccine has passed the second phase of clinical trial, Oleg Salagai, spokesman from the Russian Health Ministry told the press on Thursday.

US-based company PayPal, the biggest digital payment system in the world, has notified customers in Crimea that it will stop providing services to residents of the peninsula.

Russian researchers have recently started to work at the scientific laboratory located near Russia's Vostok Station in Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctic, where they are planning to explore cosmic dust particles.

Alexei Uchitel’s historical drama Matilda about the affair of Tsar Nicholas II with the imperial theater ballerina Matilda Cshesinscaya might be banned from world distribution.

The Stanislavsky Electrotheatre earlier known as the Stanislavsky Moscow Drama Theater will be opened after a major repair.

Rosneft has launched production at the Arkutun-Dagi field after painstaking preparatory works involving international players amid tough sanctions imposed by an alliance of countries over Russia’s alleged role in the Ukraine crisis.

One of the world’s largest furniture retail chains - the Swedish IKEA - plans to invest 19 billion Swedish kronor (about $ 2.3 billion) in the company’s operations in Russia until 2020.

By March 2015 the number of people unable to pay the full amount of the monthly payments on foreign currency mortgage may reach 45%. This forecast was made by the All-Russian movement of foreign currency mortgage borrowers.

Visa has asked for insurance against failures in the Russian system of payment cards. Visa fears that the National Payment Cards System (NPCS) will fail to cope with the processing of payments on its cards in Russia. It insists on the use of foreign facilities, however NPCS objects to this idea.

Crimea will be a special football zone operating under UEFA’s protectorate after the European regulatory body ruled against Crimean teams joining the Russian Football Union.

“Yulmart” Internet retailer plans to conduct initial public offering (IPO) on stock exchanges in 2016 and, as a result, to raise about $ 1 billion, as the company’s message said. The money will be spent on the construction of modern centres of orders execution in the European part of Russia.

The world’s largest oilfield services company Schlumberger announced its plans to purchase a 45.65% stake in the Russia’s largest drilling company “Eurasia Drilling Company” (EDC). The total transaction value is estimated at $ 1.7 billion.

According to the preliminary estimate of the Bank of Russia, the external debt of Russia decreased by 17.75% in 2014 - from $ 728,864,000,000 to $ 599,497,000,000.

The order issued by the Bank of Russia revoked the license for banking operations from the Dagestan Bank “Adam International” (Makhachkala). The reasons for revocation included the violations of the law “On countering legalization (laundering) of proceeds from crime and terrorism financing”.

Genetic testing of severe hereditary diseases in newborn babies with the use of high-performance genomic analysis will be conducted in St. Petersburg for the first time in Russia.