Monday, April 29, 2024
Russia’s Military-Industrial Company (VPK) will develop a new multipurpose car, based on the Strela armored vehicle, for the Ministry of Defense, VPK CEO Alexander Krasovitsky told TASS Thursday. "The Strela car line is being developed in compliance with the Defense Ministry research and development work. Currently, the line includes six...
The State Research Center for Virology and Biotechnology Vector of Rospotrebnadzor has received an updated registration certificate for the EpiVacCorona vaccine, now it can be produced in the form of syringe doses. This was reported to reporters on Tuesday at the scientific center. The manufacturer said that along with the...
A criminal investigation has been opened in the U.S. into a Florida factory that makes rifles modeled after the iconic Soviet AK-47 assault rifle and is run by executives with ties to top allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Bloomberg reports. Kalashnikov USA’s 2015 request for state and local tax breaks...
U.S. customers of Russian van manufacturer GAZ were given more time to wind down business with the company, the U.S. Treasury Department said, marking the latest softening of sanctions against GAZ owner Oleg Deripaska. The sanctions on GAZ are expected to affect its contracts with U.S. firm Cummins Inc. as...
South Africa and Russia have recommitted themselves to the continued implementation of their MoU on Platinum Group Metals, Mining Journal reports. This follows the third annual PGMs conference which took place in Johannesburg. The conference, which was held in the lead-up to South Africa hosting the 10th annual BRICS Summit, agreed...
Russian gold miner Nordgold has formally launched its third mine – the new Gross operation in Yakutia, Russia, which will turn the company into a one-million-ounce a year producer, The Mining Journal reported. The Gross mine will operate for 17 years and is expected to add 200 000 oz/y of gold to...
Russian steelmaker NLMK has invited France-based international engineering group Fives to Russia to present its breakthrough technologies, Steel Times reports. Fives and two other French firms – energy companies Engie and Dalkia – were formally invited by the French embassy in Russia and together with Sylvie Bermann, the French ambassador...
Russian carmaker AvtoVAZ has sold 360,204 new cars in Russia in 2018, 16 percent more than a year earlier, the company's press service reported. At the end of the year, four Lada models were among the ten most popular cars in the Russian market. The leader is the family car...
Sales of Russia’s luxury limousine Aurus in the European market have been excellent and suppliers of the brand are provided with clients there for the next 3-4 years, Russia’s Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov said in an interview for Rossiya-24 TV news channel on Thursday. European dealers have shown...
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,...