Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Russia has allotted some $235 million to reconstruct airport infrastructure in its Far East region in the next two years, Asia Times reported. The move is aimed at stopping further depopulation in an area that accounts for more than a third of the country’s territory but just 5% of its...
Under pressure from Washington, Copenhagen is deliberately delaying the issuance of a construction permit for the Nord Stream 2 project, two sources in Russian diplomatic circles told the Izvestya newspaper. Denmark made special amendments to the legislation, which empower it to reject applications for the construction of pipelines in Danish territorial...
In the first half of 2019, Russian steel giant Severstal shipped 2.9 million tons of metal products to Russian builders, 16% more than in the same time last year, the company said, according to Steel Guru. The steelmaker attributed the increase in supplies to the expansion of the geography of...
The construction of a special Center for Infectious Diseases near Moscow as a part of measures to stem the coronavirus outbreak has started this week, with over 2,000 workers engaged in the project, Argumenti.ru reported. Officials in the capital say they are trying to work with the best construction firms...
A number of Major Japanese trading houses such as Mitsubishi Corp, Marubeni Corp, Sumitomo Corp and Mitsui & Co. have canceled Rusal’s shipments of refined aluminum and other products in light of U.S. sanctions, industry sources said. The Russian company, which is the world’s No.2 producer, and its owner, Oleg...
The first hotel under the Radisson brand in Russia will be opened in Perm in the Urals region in 2021, the world-renowned hotelier announced on Thursday, according to Interfax.  The newly built Radisson Hotel Perm will have 150 rooms and is due to open in late 2021. This new signing...
The Russian authorities plan to attract 1 trillion rubles ($13.1 bln) of non-budgetary funds for the construction of roads in the country in the next three years, Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin told reporters during the Transport Week, TASS writes. "We have set the task of attracting extra-budgetary money -...
The Russian branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said that it does not have a problem with the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project and will not oppose it so long as the route is changed from along a nature reserve in the...
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,...
The Russian Government has proposed that from 2019, the number of foreign workers employed in the construction sector will be limited to 80% of the total number of workers in an enterprise, the Kommersant business newspaper reports. "There will be a reduction in the foreign labor force in the...