Russian flag carrier Aeroflot has received the initial batch of five Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ-100) airliners from state-run Vnesheconombank (VEB), RNS reported last week.
The deliveries were made during the last week of December and form part of a 100-aircraft order placed by Aeroflot with the Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Corp...
The common gas market of Estonia, Latvia, and Finland was launched on January 1, in a step towards easing the region's dependence on Russian gas, ERR writes.
The move comes after the commissioning of the new BalticConnector pipeline, which started pumping natural gas from Finland to Latvia last month.
“The first...
Travel data and analytics expert Cirium has named Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO) as the world's most punctual airport in the annual On-Time Performance (OTP) Review.
Sheremetyevo operated the most on-schedule departing flights, with 95 percent being on time. The airport was number one in both the category for Global Airports, and the category for...
Russian flag carrier Aeroflot was named the most punctual mainline airline in 2019 in the annual On-Time Performance (OTP) Review by travel data and analytics firm Cirium, Lenta.ru reports.
The airline had an OTP score of 86.68 percent, while Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways (ANA) followed in a close second...
Russia and Belarus were unable to agree on terms for a 2020 supply contract and Moscow has decided to halt crude oil supplies to its neighbor, TASS reported on Friday.
The supply interruption that began on Jan. 1 has forced refineries in Belarus to operate at minimum capacity, according to...
Russia’s state-run gas major Gazprom increased gas production by 0.5% to 500.3 billion cubic meters in 2019, the company’s best result since 2011, CEO Alexey Miller told reporters on Thursday, according to News.ru.
The export of gas to non-CIS countries declined by 1.3% compared to the record levels of 2018,...
Russia’s food safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor has destroyed almost six tons of illegally sold pears from Belarus on Wednesday, after 25 tons were already disposed of on Tuesday, Charter 97 reports.
On December 31, Rosselkhoznadzor destroyed almost six tons of pears at the range near the village of Shchitniki, which it had seized...
Russia produced more crude oil and condensate in 2019 than in any year since the breakdown of the Soviet Union, despite curbing production under an agreement with OPEC, Reuters reports.
Russia produced 560.2 million tons of oil in 2019, up 0.8% from the previous year, preliminary data from the Energy...
Russia is waiting for the president of the National Assembly (AN) of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, to leave office before sending economic advisors to help the regime of his opponent and Moscow ally, Nicolas Maduro, Bloomberg writes.
Maduro is considered as the usurper of power by many of Venezuela’s population and...
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,...
