Day: October 17, 2019
-
Severstal reports Q3 & 9M 2019 fiacial results
October 18, 2019 – Exceptional margins supported by vertical integration- PAO Severstal (MICEX-RTS: CHMF; LSE: SVST), one of the world’s leading steel and steel-related mining companies, today announces its Q3 & 9M 2019 financial results for the period ended 30 September 2019. CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL RESULTS FOR THE THIRD QUARTER ENDED 30 SEPTEMBER 2019 Notes: EBITDA…
-
Defendants in Russian Extremism Case Slit Wrists in Court
Two defendants standing trial in an extremism case slit their wrists in court on Thursday, local media reported. In March 2018, Russian prosecutors accused 10 members of the Novoye Velichiye (New Greatness) group, most of whom are in their late teens, with extremist activities. Prosecutors say the defendants were part of a Telegram chat group…
-
Russia’s Natural Resources Ministry Calls for Urgent Action to Save Wild Reindeer
Russia’s Natural Resources and Ecology Ministry has called for action to protect wild reindeer on the Taymyr Peninsula in the country’s Far North because the population has halved over the past two decades. There are now 400,000-450,000 of the animals in the region, down from 1 million in 2000, the ministry said in a statement…
-
U.S. Helped Moscow Foil Recent Terror Plot With Intel, FSB Says
The United States has recently shared intelligence with Russia about a terrorist plot, the head of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) intelligence agency said Thursday. FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov’s remarks come almost two years after news that the CIA helped Russia foil a terror attack in St. Petersburg. The FSB said it detained seven Islamic…
-
Alleged Rape of Russian Journalist Sparks Criminal Case After Outcry
Investigators in the city of Novgorod have launched a criminal case into the alleged rape of a local female journalist by a chief editor, more than two weeks after she had first filed a report about the incident. It is the latest case in Russia in which a woman has alleged sexual assault by a…
-
‘They Tried to Break Me, Then Offered Me a Deal,’ Sentsov Says of Russian Imprisonment
Oleg Sentsov was the most high-profile prisoner among the 35 Ukrainian detainees who returned home last month in exchange for 35 prisoners wanted by Russia. The 43-year-old filmmaker was detained in Crimea in 2014 and sentenced to 20 years in a Russian maximum security prison on terrorism charges he says were trumped up. The European…
-
Russia Rejects Climate Change Plan After Business Uproar
The Russian government has drastically watered-down its new package of climate change legislation after push-back from the country’s leading businesses, Russian daily Kommersant reported. Plans for quotas on carbon emissions at Russia’s largest companies, a new national carbon trading system and penalties for the biggest polluters have now been scrapped. Instead, Russia will only go…
-
Putin Seeks to Abandon Geneva Conventions’ Victim-Protection Clause
President Vladimir Putin is seeking to withdraw Russia’s recognition of a Geneva Conventions provision on protecting victims of war. Spurred by Russian lawmakers, Putin issued a decree Wednesday revoking the Soviet Union’s statement accompanying its 1989 adoption of the additional protocol to the conventions. Adopted in 1977, Protocol I to the 1949 Geneva Conventions aims…
-
Kremlin Questions Language of ‘Unusual’ Trump Letter to Erdogan
The Kremlin on Thursday questioned the tone of a letter sent by U.S. President Donald Trump to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which it called highly unusual for correspondence between heads of state. The White House on Wednesday released the Oct. 9 letter, in which Trump urged Erdogan: “Don’t be a tough guy” and…
-
Rosneft Sets Drilling Data Monitoring Stations with Artificial Intelligence Elements at Heavy Drilling Rigs
Rosneft has set drilling data monitoring stations with artificial intelligence elements at heavy drilling rigs.
-
Rosneft Gives More Than 120 Licenses for Unique Russian digital Complex for Modelling Hydraulic Fracturing
Rosneft Oil Company has given more than 30 commercial and more than 40 test licenses for the right to use RN-GRID, Eurasia’s first industrial simulator of hydraulic fracturing, to twenty-five oilfield servicing and oil and gas companies.
-
Economic Benefits of Introduction of Digital Planning Complex in Upstream Area Amounted to More Than 2 Billion Rubles
Rosneft gained economic benefits from the introduction of a digital complex for planning, accounting and monitoring of the well intervention programme efficiency in the amount of more than 2 billion rubles.
-
Putin Orders Monitoring of Youth Behavior Online
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the government to monitor the online behavior of young Russians and to produce “moral and spiritual education” content for them. Young Russians have been targeted by several government initiatives in recent years, including a ban on minors attending protests and efforts to provide them with a military and patriotic…
-
Russia Protests After U.S. Diplomats Found Near Secret Test Site
Russia said on Thursday it would issue a formal note of protest to the United States after police caught three U.S. diplomats in what it said was a restricted area near a closed military testing site. The diplomats were stopped by police after they arrived by train on Monday and were sent back, the Russian…
-
Kadyrov Denies ‘Purging’ Chechen Elite
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has denied reports that senior officials and their relatives have been tortured in secret prisons in his republic for showing disrespect and disloyalty to him and his family. The independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported this week that members of Kadyrov’s inner circle have been tortured since August and forced to confess…
-
Russia Moves to Require Visitors to Submit Fingerprints
Russian authorities are drawing up plans to require all visiting foreigners to submit fingerprints upon arrival, the country’s deputy police chief has said, as experts warned that the move would hurt tourism. Russia has prosecuted more than 30,000 foreigners so far in 2019 for violating migration law, Russia’s Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Gorovoy said at…