Thursday, May 2, 2024
The Russian Ambassador to Japan Mikhail Galuzin has said Moscow hopes that the project to link Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido with Russia’s Sakhalin via a road-and-rail bridge will eventually be implemented, Gazeta reports. " that this landmark project, which is unique for the Russian-Japanese relations, will remain a subject for...
Several Russian ship owners and operators decided to suspend shipments to Ukraine for fear of detention and losing their cargo, after a Russian tanker, the Mekhanik Pogodin,  was detained at the Port of Kherson of Ukraine, Port News reports. The tanker was detained following Kiev’s sanctions imposed on some Russian companies...
Sheremetyevo International Airport has signed an agreement worth 7 million rubles with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. The law firm will provide legal advice on the development and conclusion of a concession agreement regarding the airfield complex of Sheremetyevo Airport. The company will analyze the documents on real estate that are associated...
Kievskaya Ploshchad has been named by Forbes as the most successful player in the Russian commercial real estate market, RBC reports. In five years, the joint income of Russia’s biggest realtors fell by $1.4 billion – from $9.3 billion to $7.9 billion, the publication says. Last year, the volume...
Private investment made it possible for the Russian government to increase its transport infrastructure spending plan to 7 trillion rubles ($110 billion) for the next five years, a spokesman for a senior government official said last week, according to Reuters.  In a bid to boost sluggish economic growth with large...
The new Moscow-St. Petersburg high-speed railway line construction will cost 1.5 trillion rubles ($23.9 billion), the government’s preliminary estimates show, according to Vedomosti. "The preliminary (estimate) is similar to that of Moscow-Kazan - 1.5 trillion (rubles). That is the most expensive section. Second, its length is 800 kilometers, just as...
The Russian government will start building new airport terminals in 27 of the country’s regions in 2019, First Deputy Prime Minister Anton Siluanov said during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with the government, RNS reports. “New terminals and runways at the airports of Novosibirsk, Perm, Chelyabinsk, Khabarovsk, Blagoveshchensk, and...
Sheremetyevo International Airport has received the necessary compliance certification from Rostekhanadzor, the Russian Supervisory Body on ecological, technological, and nuclear issues, for Stage 1 of the Terminal C reconstruction. The construction of the latest terminal at Sheremetyevo Airport lasted from October 2017 to October 2019. The terminal was designed as...
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...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched via video conference the first train from St. Petersburg to annexed Crimea that will arrive to the peninsula via the new Crimean Bridge, Interfax reports. Putin also used the occasion to kick off regular traffic on the new railroad bridge across the Kerch of...