VENTURE CAPITAL POST

For the first time since the start of Russia's invasion, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has attended the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in person.

Another meeting between North Korea and Russia has fueled speculations about a potential arms deal between the two countries.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin received a surprise diagnosis during his visit to Chukotka in the country's Far East.

China and Russia have vowed ever closer economic ties despite disapproval from the West that promised to support Ukraine in its war with Russia.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has issued decrees granting the government to seize and forcibly sell multi-billion-dollar energy assets from European companies considered "unfriendly" to new state-approved owners.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a rare apology for Russia's inflation problem, which resulted in the soaring of egg prices this week.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has asserted that the economic isolation Russia faces due to international sanctions is even helping the country to transform into a "growth center" in a "new global economy."

President Vladimir Putin has expressed confidence that the growth in the country's agricultural sector will be no less than 4% by the end of the year.

Glencore and Qatar takes $11 billion stake in state-run oil producer Rosneft. Russian President Vladimir Putin personally announced the deal which is expected to close mid-December.

The Russian president expressed his support to OPEC. He announced that Russia is ready to join it. OPEC urged other non-members to give their commitments.

The US Justice Department considers any credible allegation for violation of Federal Laws under its geographical territory very seriously. The department has been conducting its war against corruption through seizing assets related to illicit activities. Following leak of ‘Panama Papers’, it has been reviewing documents related to tax dodging through offshore accounts.

Cyprus-based lender RCB has denied reports of extending unsecured loans. Latest British media reports turned spotlight on alleged role of RCB in providing unsecured loans to people close to Vladimir Putin, President of Russia. Cyprus Central Bank said it was probing into the issue.

The history’s biggest confidential documents leak revealed Russian elites, mostly Mr Putin’s inner circles, as clients of an offshore law firm in Panama. The offshore money trail connected to Mr Putin’s allies is worth $2 billion.

Rosneft, the Russia-based oil firm, has promised to make investments of roughly EUR 13 billion annually through 2018, which is an increase of 30% for the year 2016.

The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, announced that his country had found two vaccines to cure Ebola. However, the announcement has drawn some skepticism among experts who have previously developed other vaccines for Ebola.