The Nord Stream company has resumed gas pumping through the “Nord Stream” pipeline after conducting planned annual maintenance works on both lines.

The volume of the goods imported to Russia has decreased 10 times after the signing of the decree on destruction of the products covered by the sanctions.

France paid more than 1.1 billion euro for the failure to deliver Mistral helicopters to Moscow after the contract was put on hold by Paris over the Ukraine crisis, allegedly under the US pressure.

The Kremlin has confirmed the Mistral row has been resolved successfully amid media buzz about the sum of compensation.