France may never hand over Mistrals to Russia over the Ukraine crisis despite potential fines provided for in the contract.

According to the calculations of “Gazprom”, it will be possible to increase gas supplies to the country at the beginning of 2016.

The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance may impose temporary restrictions on exports of plant products from Switzerland to Russia.

A member of the State Duma Defense Committee Vladimir Bessonov announced the need to prohibit the supplies of French wines in Russia in response to the suspension of execution of the contract on “Mistral” helicopter carriers.

The Kremlin has declined to comment on the Mistral scandal.

The construction of the maritime stretch of the South Stream pipeline has been delayed for a month, said Vladimir Markov, a member of Gazprom’s management board.

Until the end of 2014 Ukraine will have bought one billion cubic meters of Russian gas.

The agreement on the establishment of the New BRICS Development Bank was signed at the end of the summit in Fortaleza.

Chinese carmaker Lifan has received the go-ahead from the government to set up an assembly plant in the Lipetsk Region.

Russia, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Venezuela consider current oil prices to be too low.