Moscow has entered the top 50 richest cities in the world. However, the number of millionaires and billionaires living in the capital fell by a quarter year on year, and amounted to about 30 thousand people.

Russia is closely monitoring the intensification of Japanese-American maneuvers near its Far Eastern borders. This was stated by the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Japan Nikolai Nozdrev to the RIA Novosti news agency.

China has sharply raised tariffs on direct rail shipments to Russia and Belarus, the logistics portal Infotrans Media Belarus writes.

Swedish-British AstraZeneca withdraws the Vaxzevria vaccine from COVID-19 amid an excess of new drugs on the market, the Financial Times writes, citing a company statement.

The Belem ship carrying the Olympic Flame docked in Marseille on Wednesday, and the torch was transferred to land, the Associated Press (AP) reports.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Hungary, and talks with Prime Minister Viktor Orban and President Tamas Shujok are scheduled for Thursday.

Inflation in Russia on May 6 amounted to 7.81% in annual terms against 7.55% on May 2, follows from the review of the Ministry of Economic Development "On the current price situation".

The trade turnover between Russia and Armenia has exceeded seven billion dollars. This was stated by President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, TASS reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has started talks with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. This is reported by TASS.

MOEX, 08.05.2024, 17:59 MSK.  US dollar and euro exchange rates