October 11, 2024, 19:40 St. Petersburg International Gas Forum 2024, which took place at the EXPOFORUM Convention and Exhibition Centre starting from October 8, concluded today. More than 34,000 people representing 54 countries (Russia and 53 states of Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America) took part in the SPIGF, which is a record-high number of participants for the forum. SPIGF 2024 also featured…
October 11, 2024, 19:10 A unique multifunctional mobile inspection robot of Russian make was presented at the exhibition of St. Petersburg International Gas Forum 2024. The robot is designed to carry out routine inspections at production facilities. It is equipped with a gas analyzer and can independently perform scanning to detect methane leaks where required. Another peculiar feature of the new product is its multifunctional platform, which makes…
A Russian court on Friday ordered the arrest in absentia of CNN journalist Nick Paton Walsh for reporting from Ukrainian-held territory in Russia’s Kursk region. Moscow has launched several criminal proceedings against Western journalists who had produced reports from the Kursk region after Kyiv’s surprise August incursion. It has charged them with illegally crossing the…
A Russian court has ordered the seizure of JPMorgan Chase’s assets as part of a lawsuit by Russia’s second-largest bank VTB to regain its funds blocked abroad by sanctions, Reuters reported Friday, citing court documents. The St. Petersburg Arbitration Court ruled to seize $155.8 million in any currency from all JPMorgan bank accounts, according to…
Dozens of residents of a small village in Russia’s republic of Sakha (Yakutia) protested against local authorities on Wednesday after a 12-year-old local girl died from injuries sustained in an attack by a pack of stray dogs. “We came here to demand at least some action,” a local resident who attended the protest told the…
Russia on Friday sentenced a Siberian man to 18 years in prison for planning an arson attack on an army office. It also sentenced two men in a region near Moscow to 16 years for setting railways on fire allegedly on the orders of Ukraine. Moscow saw a wave of arson attacks on military enlistment…
Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday hailed their “close” views on world affairs, with the Russian leader saying ties with Tehran were a “priority” for Moscow. The pair held a meeting in Turkmenistan, one of the world’s most secretive states, amid soaring tensions in the Middle East, with Israeli air strikes on…
Russia has raised the so-called “exit tax” and the minimum discount for foreign companies seeking to pull out of the country, the RBC news website reported Thursday, citing three anonymous sources familiar with the new rules and one lawyer. Russia has since December 2022 forced foreign companies to sell their assets to Russian buyers at steep…
A Ukrainian journalist who was captured by Moscow while reporting from occupied east Ukraine has died in Russian detention, a Ukrainian official said Thursday. Victoria Roshchyna, who would have turned 28 this month, disappeared in August last year after traveling to Russian-held east Ukraine for a report. She remained missing until April 2024, when her…
A jet fire at a major oil terminal in the port city of Feodosia in Russian-annexed Crimea has been put out five days after Ukrainian missile strikes there, its Russian-installed Mayor Igor Tkachenko said Friday. “As of 8 a.m. there’s no jet fire on the territory of the oil terminal,” Tkachenko wrote on Telegram, saying…
October 11, 2024, 12:45 A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Mikhail Kovalchuk, President of National Research Centre “Kurchatov Institute”, took place today at St. Petersburg International Gas Forum 2024. The parties discussed the ongoing implementation of their agreement on scientific & technical cooperation and the status of the innovative projects that are being carried out by the…
Russian strikes overnight on the southern Ukrainian region of Odesa killed four people, including a teenage girl, and wounded 10 more, the regional governor said Friday. Russia has targeted Ukraine’s coastal Odesa region throughout the war, hitting cargo ships and grain silos in what Kyiv says is an attempt to destroy its export capacity. “The…
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Pietro Barabaschi, Director-General of the ITER International Organization, reviewed the process of development and manufacturing of key Russian systems for the international thermonuclear reactor in St. Petersburg on October 9, within the framework of his official visit to the Russian Federation. The first point of ITER Director-General’s visit was Efremov Scientific Research Institute of Electrophysical…