Thursday, August 6, 2026
Less than a month before the start of the 2018 soccer World Cup in Russia, the country has finished all the stadiums needed for the matches played beginning May 29. The final venue to open its doors and receive permission to host matches is in the city of Samara, in...
Russia’s Energy Ministry considers it reasonable to attract foreign investors to exploration of the Russian Arctic shelf for unallocated licenses, minister Alexander Novak told reporters on Tuesday, according to TASS. "We believe that it may be considered within the unallocated subsoil reserve fund," he said, adding that today the law...
Further work on the creation of a modernized frigate of project 22350M was suspended after the development of the outline design of the ship due to the lack of a customer’s decision, as stated in the report of Northern Design Bureau JSC (Northern Design Bureau, part of United Shipbuilding...
Russia announced on Tuesday that train movement across a Trans-Siberian railway bridge in the country's far east, which was destroyed by floods last week, has been fully restored. The world's longest railway serves as a vital link in the Russian economy, transporting not only people but also goods such as oil, wood,...
Sheremetyevo International Airport is set to commission its newly reconstructed first runway one (RWY-1) today in a ceremony that will feature a parade of airfield equipment. Aeroflot will inaugurate the runway with a flight SU022 that is scheduled to depart for St. Petrsburg at 4:05 pm. With the commissioning of Runway-1, which features two new high-speed-exit...
After 30 years, a failed Soviet rocket project from the end of the 1980s might see new life, as Russia is planning a new super-heavy rocket based on the Energia from 1988, Popular Mechanics reports. According to the report, although a high-profile expensive project would invigorate the troubled industry, its...
Billionaire Arkady Rotenberg has sold his construction firm Stroygazmontazh, a spokeswoman said on Thursday, according to Reuters. Both Stroygazmontazh and Rotenberg, who is President Vladimir Putin's former judo sparring partner, have been under U.S. sanctions since 2014. Rotenberg was among the Russian officials and business executives blacklisted in the aftermath...
Russia wants to install 51 additional military infrastructure components on the Kuril Islands, according to Reuters, citing the state-run TASS news agency. Japanese territory claims part of the chain, and the territorial issue extends back to the Soviet Union's seizure of several islands at the close of World War II....
The chairman of the board of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport Alexander Ponomarenko told Reuters Tuesday that private shareholders in the airport may sell a 30 percent stake to raise money for a potential purchase of Russia’s 30.5 percent holding at a later date. Sheremetyevo Holding company, which controls the business, has...
The introduction of “low-cost” railway cars in Russia is not a bad idea, but Russian Railways’ plan to use old and dilapidated wagons cannot attract people to use the new class, experts told Realnoe Vremya. A year ago, a subsidiary of Russian Railways', the Federal Passenger Company announced its intention to...