Friday, April 19, 2024
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....
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,...
Nornickel proposes to improve the Dudinka port in the Krasnoyarsk Region for up to 26 billion rubles ($353 million). According to the corporation's Senior Vice President Sergei Dubovitsky, the port's capacity will increase by a third. Nornickel's Polar Division is in charge of the Dudinka port. It serves as both a...
The government will compensate developers for the rise in prices for building materials, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin told Russian media. According to him, the situation with prices for building materials in Russia is "very difficult". Therefore, the government made an appropriate decision, and the rise in prices "will...
Cranes hover above the gleaming Neva River at St. Petersburg's historic Baltic Shipyard, where hundreds of workers are constructing four nuclear-powered icebreakers. The massive warships, which are emblazoned with the Russian flag and named after the country's northern regions, are designed to maintain Moscow's control over the melting Arctic. Russia has...
Rostourism, the Russian Federation's Federal Agency for Tourism, introduced a program of concessional loans to investors for hotel development and restoration, Zarina Doguzova, the department's chief, announced. “By 2024, we predict that the number of loans granted would be around 200 billion rubles. These monies will be used to begin...
Russia's Ministry of Construction anticipates that the construction industry's steady growth will halt the steep rise in building material costs, as revealed by Irek Fayzullin, the department's chief, at the Innoprom International Industrial Exhibition, TASS reports. The volumes in industrial and civil construction allow us to have a steady...
Investors will construct over 300,000 square meters of commercial real estate outside the capital's core, where more than 7,600 people will be able to work, under the terms of five agreements on the program to encourage the creation of jobs. According to Deputy Mayor for Economic Policy Vladimir Eftimov, the...
There are almost 180 thousand prisoners in Russia who could work on construction sites. "This is quite a lot. Even if we mobilize 20-30% of them, then this is already not bad," Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin said in an interview with the Russia 24 TV channel. A similar experience...
A freshly built military communication center in the Republic of Tyva has gone operational, the press-service of the Central Military Region said on Friday, Tass informed. "In a special ceremony held inside the new building the first shift on duty was given orders to get down to work. The new...