Saturday, April 19, 2025
Russia’s Alrosa, one of the world’s largest diamond producers, has announced the results of a competition to choose the best "football-related" names for two large rough diamonds, the company said in a statement. One of the diamonds, a 69.7-carat gem, will be named after legendary Soviet goalkeeper Lev Yashin, while...
Russia’s Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov said during a working meeting with President Vladimir Putin on Monday that the country’s manufacturing industry grew by 2.6% in 2018, state-run news agency TASS reports. "Overall the results are positive in all sectors of industry. Manufacturing industry grew by 2.6%," he...
American defense companies ruled the nearly $400 billion global arms sales industry in 2017, according to a new report published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), CNBC reports. In total, sales of arms and military services by U.S. companies totaled more than $226 billion in 2017, accounting for...
After several years of absence in the Russian market, the Opel car brand, which has moved from General Motors to the PSA Group, is coming back to the country. In the fourth quarter of 2019, the German-made Opel Grandland X crossover will go on sale, as well as Opel Zafira...
Russia’s government-owned United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) plans to continue increasing output of not very profitable military equipment, leaving its plans for civil aircraft manufacturing very modest, Kommersant reports. The move comes after Western sanctions against the company and Russia’s defense industry as a whole, dramatically changed UAC’s development strategy, the report...
Raute Group, a Finnish company from the wood industry, has opened a new service center in Kirov in central Russia, it said in a press release. The new service center will provide maintenance and spare parts warehouse services locally to Raute’s customers. In the first stage, it will serve...
The shares of Rusal, the world’s biggest aluminum producer outside China, plunged 50 percent in the Hong Kongstock exchange following U.S. imposed sanctions on the firm and its billionaire owner Oleg Deripaska, Bloomberg reports. The development could have a devastating effect on the global aluminium market. The company is...
The Russian dealer of British luxury carmaker Bentley, Volkswagen Group Rus, will recall 37 Continental model cars in Russia, the country’s Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology (Rosstandart) said on Friday, according to TASS. Cars sold in 2019 will be recalled, the agency said. "The reason for the recall...
The head of Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said on Monday his visit to the United States may take place in the second half of February 2019, Kommersant reports. "When time comes I will apply for a visa. Most probably, it will be the second half of February....
Russian President Vladimir Putin will announce himself when he is inoculated against COVID-19; even now there are many people who are willing to be vaccinated, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday, commenting on the opinion that the president’s vaccination will prompt others to do the same. "The president...