On September 19, 2018 in Singapore during the session of the High-level Inter-Governmental Russia-Singapore Commission under the co-chairmanship of Russia's Vice-Premiers Maxim Akimov and Singapore Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Russian RSTradehouse LLC, which is the executive structure of the Russia-Singapore Business Council and the Singapore vCargo Cloud Pte. Ltd. (VCC&), a subsidiary of SGX Catalyst, signed a cooperation agreement to expand trade opportunities between Russian and Singapore companies.

Dear Users! We are glad to inform you that new services have appeared in the sections Goods and Services, namely: opportunity to sort goods and services at the place of production / sale / provision. Earlier it was possible to sort goods and services only by selecting a city, but now you can choose region and country. You can use multiple filters at once. In the near future the same function will appear in the sections Investments and Contract manufacturing.

Russia entered the top-15 countries of the world ideally suitable for location of production. This is stated in the rating of Manufacturing Risk Index 2018 report, prepared by Cushman Wakefield.

On April 17-18 Singapore hosted the III Russia-Singapore Business Dialogue”. Previously the first two events were held in Moscow. The Forum confined to the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia (as the successor of the USSR) and Singapore. The Forum was organized by the Russia-Singapore Business Council.

We congratulate Doctor of Historical Sciences German Dudchenko with the publishing of his Chinese-Russian dictionary that is developed by the system of four Chinese hieroglyphs. This type of allocation of signs according to their quantitive marks makes it easy to access.

United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) will take part in the Asia's Largest Aerospace and Defence event – international Singapore Air Show 2018, which runs from 6 to 11 February. The UACs product line will be represented by the military and civil aircraft models produced by the Corporation divisions.

On 9 February 2018, the Bank of Russia Board of Directors decided to cut the key rate by 25 bp to 7.50% per annum. Annual inflation remains sustainably low. Inflation expectations are diminishing progressively. Short-term pro-inflationary risks have abated. Therefore the balance of inflationary and economic risks has shifted slightly towards the risks to economic growth. The uncertainty over the situation in global financial markets has increased. This year annual inflation is much less likely to exceed 4%. In this environment the Bank of Russia will continue to reduce the key rate and may complete the transition from moderately tight to neutral monetary policy in 2018.