Russia says it is open for economic cooperation with the United States, including on energy and mining rare earth minerals.

The United States and Russia are discussing the possibility of economic cooperation in the Arctic, including natural resource exploration and the use of new trade routes. Source: Bloomberg, citing sources who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private and at an early stage Details: The newspaper reports that US and Russian

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russia had lots of rare earth metal deposits and that it was open to doing deals to develop them after President Vladimir Putin held out the possibility of such collaboration with the United States.