Friday, March 29, 2024
The construction of the second stage of Zvezda shipyard in the town of Bolshoi Kamen in Russia’s Primorsky Region will completed in 2020, four years ahead of schedule, Portnews.ru reported citing Andrey Shishkin, vice president of Russia’s top oil producer Rosneft. "The finishing date of the second stage is 2024,...
A tender for the construction of a passenger cableway in Russia’s Altai region was awarded to a subsidiary of Austrian company Ropetrans International GmbH. The company will be engaged in the delivery, installation, and commissioning of the equipment of the cableway in the Siberian Federal District, Interfax reported. A corresponding agreement...
Enel, Italy’s largest energy concern, is negotiating with a number of Russian banks to raise financing for the construction of wind farms in the country, the company’s CEO Francesco Starace told TASS news agency at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Sunday. According to him, the company plans to conclude negotiations...
Russia has lost the top spot among European countries in commissioning new areas in shopping centers, RIA news agency wrote citing a report by American commercial real estate services company Cushman & Wakefield. The report, titled: European Shopping Centres: The Development Story, provides an overview of shopping center stock levels and development activity...
President Vladimir Putin drove across a new 12-mile bridge to Crimea in a large orange construction truck on Monday, inaugurating his latest megaproject and tightening Moscow’s claim to the disputed territory, The Guardian reported. The bridge, finished six months ahead of schedule, established a land link from Russia to the Crimean...
Moscow city authorities intend to erect a modern sports center near the existing Luzhniki Olympic Complex, which is one of the world’s biggest multi-purpose sports facilities, RIA Novosti news agency reported with reference to the City of Moscow construction department. The head of the construction complex of the Russian capital Marat...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared that the country has "practically finished" preparations for the soccer World Cup, planned to be held from June 14 to July 15 in 11 Russian cities, Reuters reported. "Russia is ready for the tournament and has only some last-minute ‘fine-tuning’ to do”, Putin said...
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 has demanded compensation from the United States through the World trade Organization (WTO) for Washington’s decision to impose global tariffs on steel and aluminium, Reuters reported. A WTO statement, circulated at the request of Moscow, describes Donald Trump administration's decision as a "safeguard measure" that under WTO rules should...
One of the options for helping Russian aluminium company Rusal which was hit by U.S. sanctions is a temporary nationalization of the aluminum giant, a Kremlin spokesman Dmitriy Peskov said on Thursday, according to Interfax. He was commenting on a proposal set out by Alexander Shokhin, a former deputy prime minister,...