The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade was shocked to hear of the train derailment in Hitrino, Bulgaria, which has left several people dead and many seriously injured.

On 12 December the General Director of Tatneft Mr. Nayl Maganov opened the market for trading at the London Stock Exchange and held a meeting with international investors.

Minister for Human Rights demonstrates UK’s continuing support to Central America and Mexico during a human-rights focused visit to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico.

Today 40 tonnes of urgently needed relief assistance will be delivered to Iraq through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism.

Several documents on expansion of bilateral cooperation between the states have been signed in the presence of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė who is on a working visit to Ukraine.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade condemns the terrorist attack in Istanbul in the strongest possible terms. According to a statement by the Ministry’s Press Chief, the security of the European Union begins with the stability of Turkey.

The low-cost of AvtoVAZ managed to get up to the first place of rankings of the Russian bestsellers for the first time since May of this year, and only the fourth time this year.

Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Lee Seung-hun, President and CEO of KOGAS, signed an Agreement of Cooperation at the Gazprom headquarters today.

PJSC ALROSA, the world leader in diamond mining, has announced the initiation of the procedure to rename its foreign-based trading subsidiaries and affiliates ARCOS.