The US administration will continue keeping an eye on activities aimed at completion of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline construction and view sanctions as one of many important tools in this situation, State Department spokesperson told TASS on Friday.
"We will monitor activity to complete or certify the pipeline...
While BP was unveiling its strategy to reinvent itself from an international oil company to an integrated energy company in London last year, thousands of miles away Russian giant Rosneft—in which the UK supermajor holds 20 percent—was preparing to launch an ambitious multi-billion-dollar onshore oil project in Russia’s Arctic,...
Crude oil futures secured further gains on Tuesday, with both global benchmark Brent and US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) climbing to the highest levels since January 2020, RT reported.
Prices for both contracts touched peak levels for the last 13 months during early trading on Tuesday before giving up some...
The consortium behind the Russia-led Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline has resumed laying pipes in the waters of Denmark, it said on Saturday, despite mounting pressure on the project from Washington, Reuters reports.
Construction of the link, which would double the capacity of the existing Nord Stream pipeline to...
The German authorities are considering the possibility of creating a shutdown mechanism for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which would be used in the case of a Russian attempt to decrease gas transit via Ukraine, Sputnik reports citing German media.
The WirtschaftsWoche newspaper reported that neither Chancellor Angela Merkel...
Kolmar, a coal mining company, which is an anchor resident of the Southern Yakutia advance development territory (ADT) in Russia’s Neryungri Region, plans to double its coal production in Yakutia in 2021, a representative of the company’s press service told TASS on Thursday.
"In 2020, coal production amounted to 6.7...
Russia may file a lawsuit over the hindrances other countries have been posing to the gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev told Russian mass media in an interview, as reported by TASS.
"If there are reasons for this, it goes without saying...
The total number of nuclear weapons both Russia and the U.S. could possess was limited by New START, signed between the two countries in 2010, Sputnik reported. The treaty would have expired on 5 February 2021, had the Biden administration not agreed to extend it for another five years.
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The agreement between Russia, Saudi Arabia and the US to cut oil output last year set an example of cooperation between countries, even when they have diverging interests, President Vladimir Putin told the World Economic Forum, RT informed.
There are issues, of course, that affect all the nations without exception,...
