By Gleb Bryansk and Evgeniy Matveev SERGIEVSKIY, Russia, June 10 (Reuters) - At a farm near Moscow, newly arrived guest workers from India are planting potatoes and cabbages - work closely monitored ...

There is a story that in the late 1980s, when McDonald's came to Russia, American fast food technologists faced the problem that there were no potatoes fit for human consumption in the country.

Russia's economy faces stress as high interest rates fail to control inflation. Inflation hits 9.8% in September, with prices of food staples surging this year. Business leaders criticize high ...

Russia's economy faces stress as high interest rates fail to control inflation. Inflation hits 9.8% in September, with prices of food staples surging this year. Business leaders criticize high ...

Russia's economy is teetering on the brink as the country's wealth fund is dwindling and simple staples like potatoes have rocketed in cost by more than 50%. President Vladimir Putin might be ...

Russia economy crisis sees potato cost spike by nearly 100% as Putin faces new sanctions Vegetables and fruit prices shot up last year as ordinary Russians felt the pinch of Vladimir Putin's war.

Caviar, while far from being a staple food at almost 6,000 rubles (about $60) per kilo in December 2023, has shot up by over 50 percent this year to nearly 9,000 rubles per kilo.

Russia's war-hungry President Vladimir Putin has a potato-shaped problem that not even close ally Belarus can help him out with anymore. The result of the Kremlin's war-time strategy to slash food ...

Potatoes were once so despised they were linked to leprosy. What changed? It's a tale of propaganda, survival, and ordinary ...

Pyaterochka sells Russian old crop potatoes for 84 roubles ($1.06) per kilo and new crop potatoes for 120 ($1.53) per kilo, compared with an average 43 roubles per kilo in retail stores this time ...

But Russia's red-hot wartime economy comes with a price: inflation, which hit 9.8% in September. The price hikes are trickling down to basic food items, with prices of potatoes — a Russian staple — ...