Thursday, June 19, 2025
Russian regional airline RusLine has abandoned its plans to purchase 18 Superjet 100 Russian regional jets, the carrier’s owner Nikolay Ulanov told business newspaper Kommersant. Following the SSJ100’s fatal landing in Moscow earlier this month, RusLine withdrew from its joint negotiations with lessor Ilyushin Finance Co and Sukhoi Civil Co...
Turkish President Reccep Tayip Erdogan's Communications Director has denied a recent report in the German newspaper Bild claiming that Turkey decided not to buy the Russian S-400 missile defense system. "Take it from me: the S-400 procurement is a done deal," FahrettinAltun said, according to Daily Sabah. Bild's foreign policy editor...
Turkey has finished its special protecting probe on steel imports from Russia, without imposing restrictions, Russia’s Industry and Trade Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday, according to Mail.ru News. Turkey is the largest export market for Russian steelmakers. "As a result of an investigation, the Turkish side made a unanimous...
Rosoboronexport, Russia’s state intermediary agency for weapons trade, has signed contracts amounting to $5.2 billion since the beginning of 2019 and exported vehicles and weapons abroad for $4.9 billion, state-run news agency TASS reported. "Just in the first four months of 2019, Rosoboronexport exported Russian weapons and military vehicles amounting...
The Russian dealer of German carmaker Mercedes-Benz will recall 1,600 S-class sedans in Russia due to problems with the driver assistance package, the country’s Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology (Rosstandart) said on Monday, according to Kommersant. The recall will cover automobiles sold from March 2017 to June 2018,...
Russian exporters have shipped at least 900,000 tons of predominantly thermal coal from the Baltic Sea to Asia so far this year amid slack European demand, market sources told Montel on Thursday. At least 170,000 tons loaded at Russia’s main northwest European export hub of Ust-Luga was earmarked for China,...
One of Russia’s leading independent maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) providers for both Russian and foreign aircraft in Russia, Volga-Dnepr Technics Moscow, has been successfully certified for compliance with the ISO 9001-2015 international standard, Rusaviainsider.com reports. The company successfully implemented a quality management system (QMS) that has improved the...
A project for the construction of the JSC Ivanovo Polyester Complex, reportedly suspended due to lack of state guarantees to the lender, could be revived in Russia’s Republic of Bashkiria, Innovation in Textiles reports. According to the news outlet, there is a possibility that the decision will be revised...
Russian aluminum major Rusal has reduced its sales of value added products (VAP) in the first quarter by 44 percent from a year ago and by 22 percent from the last quarter of 2018, due to sanctions by the United States, Reuters reported. Rusal was added to a U.S....
About 3,700 workers in Ford plants in Russia slated for closure are fighting to get a fair payout after the U.S. carmaker decided to dramatically cut its presence in the country, the Moscow Times reports. Ivan, a 50-year-old welder, has been producing the frames of Focus and Mondeo cars at...