Monday, June 9, 2025
The airport in Salzburg, Austria reported a record number of Russian tourists in a single day this Saturday, when it listed an inrush of 11,000 Russian and Ukrainian holidaymakers, ETN reports. Salzburg is a popular destination for Russian tourists in recent years, attracting mostly young families with children from the...
Russian airline Pobeda, a low-cost company which is part of the Aeroflot group, may purchase 30 new Boeing 737 MAX8 aircraft, according to information on Russia’s state procurement website. The company is now holding a tender for consulting services for the purchase of aircraft, documents published on the website reveal,...
The tallest building in Russia and Europe, the Lakhta Centre in St Petersburg, Russia has been revealed as the massive construction project nears completion, Russian channel Top TV reports. The twisted supertall skyscraper, standing 462 meters high, finished construction in June 2018. It is the 13th tallest building in the...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has sided with Russia in a dispute over railway vehicles and equipment launched by Ukraine in 2015, Politico reports. In October 2015, Kiev filed a claim with the World Trade Organization against Russia over restrictions slapped on supplies of Ukrainian rolling stock and railroad...
American sanctions in Iran will not affect the country’s railway cooperation with Russia, says Hossein Ashouri, deputy director of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways, according to Mehr news agency.  The official said the previous sanctions weren’t able to affect the ongoing Iran-Russia railway construction projects.   “In recent years,...
Ukraine has said that the newly-built Russian bridge to Crimea, the peninsula it annexed in 2014, is used by Moscow to delay its neighbor’s ships, exert political pressure and hurt its economy, Bloomberg reports. Ukraine’s State Border Service said Wednesday that inspections of vessels have risen sharply since the 19-kilometer...
A massive project for the construction of a bridge to connect Russia’s Sakhalin Island to the mainland is seen in government circles as a political project, and it will be implemented regardless its economic feasibility, Vedomosti quoted a federal government official as saying. Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier instructed...
Russia’s state-owned Railway company has made an agreement for the supply of 293 passenger cars from Tver Carriage Works factory, owned by Transmashholding, the Railway Gazette reported. The deal was signed on July 17. Deliveries are scheduled to start this month and run until October, the report said. The...
The growing development of the Arctic shelf’s resources and the presence of the Russian military in the region necessitates the improvement of the infrastructures in the Northern Sea Route ports, Russian experts and officials told TASS news agency. According to the analysts, practically all ports, with the exception of...
The European Union has decided to impose sanctions against six more Russian entities for being involved in the recent construction of the Kerch Strait Bridge -- a 19-kilometer-long bridge linking the mainland of southern Russia with the Crimean Peninsula, Interfax Ukraine reported. The unnamed companies will be added to the...