Friday, April 19, 2024
Moscow is ready to consider other routes for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project if Denmark refused to approve its laying in the country’s exclusive economic zone, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, according to Kommersant. The business newspaper writes that an alternative route through Sweden’s zone...
In September 2019, Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport, the largest in Russia, became the first in eastern Europe to operate three runways. The airport is counting on the runways and its new passenger terminals to increase its passenger numbers by a factor of 1.5 to 65 million people by 2030,...
Capacity utilization of systemic companies in the Russian automotive industry declined from 50% to less than 30% after two months of the lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, Izvestiya newspaper reports on Saturday, citing data of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, TASS reported. Automobiles production plummeted by 60.2%...
Rosprirodnadzor summed up the results of unscheduled inspections of TGK-11 enterprises in Omsk, carried out on behalf of the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Victoria Abramchenko. In total, 89 violations were identified, including the use of faulty filters, exceeding the established volumes of emissions and the discharge of pollutants into...
The Russian Government has prepared a draft program of horse industry development, Meatinfo.ru reported. Special focus will be put on increasing the population of meat breed horses, the segment where the production performance has been seen shrinking over the past few years, the report says. The new program is scheduled...
The United States and its allies are worried that the Kremlin might be taking information warfare to new depths, after it was found that Russian ships are lurking around underwater communications cables, The Associated Press reported. The 400 fiber-optic cables carry most of world’s calls, emails and texts, as well...
A pair of managers specialized in liquefied natural gas (LNG) deals at Gazprom Marketing & Trading’s London office have left the company, sources told Reuters on Wednesday. Gazprom Marketing & Trading (GM&T) is a trading arm of Russia’s energy giant Gazprom which, sources told Reuters in March 2018, is reorganizing its overseas...
Russia’s Energia Space Rocket Corporation has come back to the idea of sending a manned mission to the Moon with the help of four Angara-A5V rocket launches, a source in the domestic space industry told TASS on Tuesday. "As part of the research work, the Energia Space Rocket Corporation is...
The head of a central Russian region has suspended all works at a limestone production site on a "sacred" natural landmark after violent clashes broke out between environmental activists and security personnel over the weekend, The Moscow Times reported. Protests broke out at Kushtau hill in the republic of Bashkortostan...
Increased activity in agriculture and rising wholesale trade have contributed most to economic growth in Russia in the third quarter of this year, bne Intellinews reported citing newly-reelased data by statistics agency Rosstat. The output of basic economic sectors rose by 2.9% y/y in September, compared with 2.4% a month...