Source link The category outpaced vodka in quarterly growth at the beginning of this year, according to the regulator Vodka, Russia’s stereotypical national beverage, is beginning to lose out to lower-alcohol alternatives in terms of domestic sales, according to newly released data. Among alcoholic beverages, those classified as low-alcohol (meaning up to 9% alcohol content) […]
Source link Samsung has regained the leading position as iPhone sales slide amid the US-China trade spat Samsung has overtaken Apple to reclaim its position as the globe’s top smartphone maker, preliminary data released by the research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) on Sunday showed. The South Korean tech giant lost the top spot to […]
Source link Mark Zuckerberg’s company believed to have agreed to set up at Reliance’ campus, owned by India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani The IT giant Meta, whose range of products and services includes Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is planning to set up it first data center in India, inside the campus of Reliance Industries, which is […]
Source link The country’s liabilities have been steadily decreasing, according to the central bank Russia’s government and its businesses have been steadily reducing the amount of money they owe to foreign lenders, the latest official data suggests. The country’s level of external debt dropped by nearly a fifth last year, reaching its lowest point in […]
Source link Mapped coordinates show the routes people took to the location from July 2016 until the financier’s arrest in July 2019, according to Wired Nearly 200 people made multiple trips to disgraced financier Jeffry Epstein’s Caribbean island, according to data obtained by Wired. The convicted sex offender had allegedly trafficked and assaulted minors and […]
Source link The Supreme Court earlier struck down a scheme that allowed confidential donations, and ruled that the details must be made public India’s ruling party was the largest beneficiary of a now-abolished bond scheme through which companies were able to anonymously fund political parties, the election commission revealed on Thursday. The Bharatiya Janata Party […]
Source link Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye have been seeing a big surge in tax revenues, according to the fiscal authorities Tax revenues in Russia’s four new regions have continued to grow, with a total of 210 billion rubles ($2.27 billion) raised in 2023 in the Donetsk (DPR) and Lugansk (LPR) People’s Republics, as well as […]
Source link Nearly 30% of total income went to 10% of the population last year, according to Rosstat Income disparity among the Russian population increased in 2023, according to the latest report on the social and economic situation in the country by Rosstat, the official statistics agency. Rosstat uses the Gini index, a measure of […]
Source link Australia’s unemployment rate has risen to its highest level since early 2022, hitting 4.1% in January, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported on Thursday. The figure is slightly above the consensus expectation of 4%, an uptick from December’s reported 3.9%. The economy added 11,100 full-time jobs and shed 10,600 part-time jobs last […]
Source link Berlin has been exporting less to the Asian country in recent years, statistics have shown The US is on track to surpass China as Germany’s leading trade partner as soon as next year, Reuters reported this week, citing the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (DIHK). China has held the top spot for […]
Source link Police in the UK are searching for a man suspected of carrying out an acid attack on a mother and her two young children A chemical substance attack on a woman and her two young children in southwest London last week has highlighted a rising trend of serious assaults involving corrosive substances in […]
Source link Russia saw a surge in foreign tourism in 2023 despite Western sanctions over the Ukraine conflict, which affected air traffic with the country, RBK news outlet reported on Saturday citing data from Russia’s security service (FSB). According to the findings, foreign tourists visited Russia 670,700 times last year, more than triple the figures […]
Source link The sector recorded a 1.7% drop during the Christmas season alone, official statistics show German retail sales saw a sharp drop in 2023, according to preliminary data released on Wednesday by Germany’s Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). In price-adjusted terms, sales in the sector were down 3.3% from 2022 and 3.9% from 2021, a […]
Source link Shipments of the fuel to the South American nation soared by 6,000% last year as Moscow seeks new outlets for its petroleum products Russia has unseated the US as the largest exporter of petroleum products to Brazil, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing official government figures and data from the analytics firm […]
Source link Namibia accounted for more than 40% of Russian imports of the delicacy in 2023, according to official data Namibia has become the leading supplier of oysters to Russia, with shipments amounting to 337 tons in 2023, according to data from the Russian Federal Fishery Agency (Rosrybolovstvo). Statistics released on Monday show the southern […]