Friday, May 9, 2025
President Vladimir Putin has renamed a number of Russian airports in honor of famous Russians such as tsars and writers. Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport will now bear the name of one of Russia’s most well-known poets, Alexander Pushkin, and the airport in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk will be named after another famous national writer,...
China might become one of the major shareholders in Transneft, the state-backed oil pipeline company in Russia, one of its directors said Friday, Kallanish Energy informs. Transneft first vice president Maxim Grishanin said the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) was in talks to attract investors to the pipeline company, UPI reported. "There are...
Austria will continue promoting the Russian-led Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline project despite the negative stance of the United States on the issue, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said in an interview with Austrian broadcaster ORF. " has clearly said that the United States is against this project. We...
Russian truck and heavy machinery producer Kamaz has opened a subsidiary in Indonesia to increase sales of its products in the Southeast Asian country, the company’s press service said on Wednesday. "The company named PT Kamaz Trucks Indonesia has become a hub for Kamaz in Indonesia and obtained a status...
Assembled in the South Tyrol region, a fully automated cableway system, built by Doppelmayr has started with construction at the Sheremetyevo International Airport, in the Russian capital Moscow. The automated system also called the Cable Liner, will connect the northern and southern terminals of the airport, AltoAdige Innovazione informed. The Cable...
As of June 2019, Brussels Airlines will offer flights from Brussels to Sheremetyevo International Airport near the city of Moscow instead of Domodedovo Airport, Travel Trade Daily reports. The Sheremetyevo International Airport is with its industrial implementation a prime location and among the first choice of corporate travellers. For passengers...
The Russian government is considering the use of ports in annexed Crimea as parts of a trade route to Iran through the Caspian region, the country’s Presidential Envoy to Crimea Georgy Muradov told the Izvestya newspaper. According to the official, several Iranian businessmen have already expressed readiness to develop a...
The new structure of airspace over Moscow, which would enable the operators to significantly reduce air traffic delays, will start operations from December 3 2020, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Maxim Akimov told reporters on Tuesday, according to Gazeta.ru. "One of the most important and forward-looking issues is the approval...
Decision-makers in Finland and Norway are speeding up talks on a so-called Arctic Corridor, EUobserver reports. If the project, spurred by China's massive Belt and Road Initiative, materializes, it will be the shortest, most direct route for goods between Asia and Europe ever. Cargo ships from Asia will off-load in...
Moscow-based rail operator Grand Service Express was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Wednesday, for operating a passenger rail service between the Russian mainland and Crimean Peninsula, The Hill reports.  The agency said on Wednesday it added the Russian railroad, as well as...