Day: May 28, 2019

  • Severstal uveils ew cliet-cetric corporate structure

    Severstal uveils ew cliet-cetric corporate structure

    May 29, 2019 PAO Severstal announces that the Company’s organizational structure has been reconfigured to support its updated strategy and ensure it consistently delivers an excellent customer experience. Based on agile business principles, all of the Company’s production and “selling” divisions now fall under two streams – upstream and downstream, for which common business goals…

  • Gazprom in Eastern Russia, Entry into Asia-Pacific Markets Press Conference held

    Gazprom in Eastern Russia, Entry into Asia-Pacific Markets Press Conference held

    Listen to audio For Gazprom’s Press Conferences audio broadcast please dial: +7 495 719-35-77 (Russian) +7 495 719-30-00 (English) Materials May 28, 2019, 02:30 pm (Moscow time) [embedded content] Participants: Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee, Gazprom; Elena Burmistrova, Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee, Gazprom; Director General, Gazprom Export; Sergey Menshikov, Member of the Management Committee, Head of Department, Gazprom; Vyacheslav Mikhalenko, Member…

  • Russians Are Cutting Spending on Basic Goods, Survey Says

    Russians Are Cutting Spending on Basic Goods, Survey Says

    Russians said they spent less on food, travel, clothes and other goods and services in 2019 than last year, a survey by Russia’s Romir researcher said Tuesday. Among those who said they had to cut spending, 24 percent said they saved on food, 29 percent on travel and 23 percent on clothes. Another 13 percent…

  • BDSM-Style Graduation Video Divides Russians

    BDSM-Style Graduation Video Divides Russians

    A controversial high school celebration in which students dressed in revealing outfits has divided Russian society over questions of morality and freedom of expression. Police issued fines and a headmistress submitted her resignation in the Far East city of Vladivostok after video of the would-be graduates celebrating the last days of school in leather shorts,…

  • Report on the results of voting at the Annual general meeting of shareholders of PJSC PhosAgro

    Report on the results of voting at the Annual general meeting of shareholders of PJSC PhosAgro

    Information on cookies This website is using cookies and other web-technologies to help provide you with the best browsing experience that would suit your preferences. Cookies also help us gather statistics that show how the website is being used and how it can be improved in terms of content and structure.By continuing to browse www.phosagro.com,…

  • Kosovo Releases Russian UN Worker After Moscow Demand

    Kosovo Releases Russian UN Worker After Moscow Demand

    Kosovo released a Russian national working for the United Nations on Tuesday, the United Nations mission in Kosovo said, after Moscow demanded that Pristina release him. The Russian was detained in a Serb-populated municipality in Kosovo’s north during a police operation there. The UN mission said the Russian and another UN staff member who was…

  • Chinese Officials Are Searching Russian Travelers’ Phones at Border, Consulate Warns

    Chinese Officials Are Searching Russian Travelers’ Phones at Border, Consulate Warns

    Russia has requested an official explanation from China over a reported new policy in which Russian citizens’ phones are randomly seized and searched by Chinese border guards. The Russian Consulate General in Guangzhou issued an advisory last week, warning that border guards at China’s Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport had begun to randomly select Russian travellers to…

  • Kokoshnik: Not Just For Fairy Tales

    Kokoshnik: Not Just For Fairy Tales

    Pick up a book of Russian fairy tales, and you’ll notice something very distinctive in the costume of the female characters.  Spend Christmas in Russia, and you’ll see the same distinctive circlet on the head of every incarnation of Snegurochka – the Snow Maiden. We refer, of course, to that most iconic Russian headdress: the…

  • Sibneftegaz Celebrates 25th Anniversary

    Sibneftegaz Celebrates 25th Anniversary

    Sibneftegaz JSC celebrates the 25th anniversary of its operation. This is one of the key gas-producing subsidiaries of Rosneft Oil Company with the accumulated output exceeding 118 billion cubic metres. At the moment, the entity produces approximately 12 bcm annually. In order to expand its production, Sibneftegaz carries out the construction of major production facilities:…

  • Russian Teenager Attacks Classmate With Axe, Cites Past School Shootings – Reports

    Russian Teenager Attacks Classmate With Axe, Cites Past School Shootings – Reports

    A seventh-grade student attacked a classmate with an axe in central Russia on Tuesday in what appeared to be an act inspired by past school shootings. Authorities detained the 15-year-old in the Saratov region town of Volsk after he hit a 12-year-old girl in the head with an axe at school, Interfax reported. The teenager…

  • Deputy Director General of ROSATOM Nikolai Spasskiy held a meeting with Minister of Transport, Communications and High Technologies of Azerbaijan Ramin Guluzade

    On the 23rd of May 2019 in Moscow Deputy Director General for International Relations of ROSATOM Nikolai Spasskiy held a meeting with Minister of Transport, Communications and High Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ramin Guluzade. President of Rusatom – International Network A.A. Merten, President of JSC Rusatom Overseas E.M. Pakermanov and Chairman of CJSC…

  • Russia Demands Kosovo Release Detained Russian UN Worker

    Russia Demands Kosovo Release Detained Russian UN Worker

    Russia‘s embassy in Serbia on Tuesday demanded that Kosovo immediately release a detained Russian national working at a United Nations mission in Kosovo, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported. The Russian national was detained in a Serb-populated municipality in Kosovo’s north during a police operation there, RIA said. “We demand the immediate release of the Russian and…

  • Arrested U.S. Investor Calvey Wants to Go to Putin’s Economic Forum

    Arrested U.S. Investor Calvey Wants to Go to Putin’s Economic Forum

    U.S. private equity manager Michael Calvey, whose February arrest on fraud charges shook Russia’s foreign-investment community, still wants to go to the Kremlin’s premier economic showcase in St. Petersburg next week. But he needs the permission of the country’s Investigative Committee to leave his Moscow apartment, where he’s being held under house arrest in a…

  • Two More Russians Charged for ‘Disrespecting’ Putin Under New Law

    Two More Russians Charged for ‘Disrespecting’ Putin Under New Law

    An associate of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and a blogger from western Russia have become the latest individuals to be charged for online posts insulting President Vladimir Putin under a new law that bans “disrespect” toward authorities. People who show “blatant disrespect” online for the state, the authorities, the public, the Russian flag or the…