Gazprom's board is proposing that about 1,600 managers and administrators be cut from its headquarters at St. Petersburg, citing recent challenges.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Moscow was in contact with its "Serbian friends" about the fate of Serbian oil company NIS, which Belgrade fears will face U.S. sanctions because Russia's Gazprom is its majority owner.

The US Treasury imposed sanctions on Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegas, which explore for, produce and sell oil as well as 183 vessels that have shipped Russian oil, many of which are in the so-called shadow fleet of ageing tankers operated by non-Western companies.

The no-confidence vote, if it succeeds, will trigger a snap election. According to a recent January poll, the liberal opposition Progressive Slovakia is the most popular party in the country on 23.9 percent support, with Fico’s ruling Smer in second on 18 percent.

Russia's Gazprom is considering cutting hundreds of administrative jobs, a company spokesman confirmed to AFP on Monday, as the gas producer reels amid the loss of key exports to Europe.

MOSCOW. Jan 10 (Interfax) - The United States has introduced sanctions against two Russian oil extraction companies, Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegas, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), a division of the U.S. Department of the Treasury in charge of law enforcement in the sphere of sanctions, said on Friday.

There is an alternative route, through (Turkey). But Gazprom has decided not to supply gas any longer." Moldova accuses Moscow of trying to destabilise its government ahead of this year's ...

Slovak citizens have begun protesting against the government's growing alignment with Moscow. The protests, dubbed 'Slovakia is Europe', are now in their third week, with at least 35,000 people taking part in the latest round on Friday in cities across Slovakia.

A delegation of Slovakia's far-right MPs, led by Deputy Speaker and leader of the nationalist party SNS Andrej Danko, is set to travel to Russia in January to "develop dialogue" following the visit by Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.

"We didn't refuse the flight; the Slovak side simply sent us incomplete documents... when they were asked to complete them, they informed us about the change of route," the Polish Foreign Ministry's spokesperson said.

Dozens of oil tankers have dropped anchor following the Biden administration's sanctions against Russia's shadow fleet.