Message to the Media November 29, 2024, 19:08 Famil Sadygov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee: “We are confidently moving to a successful completion of the year. The positive trend observed in the first half of 2024 continued into its third quarter, thus forming the basis for the excellent financial results of the Gazprom Group in the first nine months of 2024 in general. As compared to the first…
Rosatom’s Machine Building Division enterprises in St. Petersburg and Petrozavodsk manufactured and shipped the primary equipment for the nuclear island, power unit No. 4, Xudapu NPP. Rosatom is contributing to the construction of the Russian-designed nuclear island in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Izhora Factory in St. Petersburg delivered a pressurizer for the VVER-1200…
Experts from Reactor Materials Institute (IRM), a company within Rosatom’s Scientific Division, have developed ionizing radiation sources based on iridium-192 for use in brachytherapy. The high-dose therapy using these sources is safe for patients and practitioners, while being effective in treating numerous malignant tumors, both intracavitary and interstitial. The uniqueness of Rosatom scientists’ solution is…
Indian delegation consisting of the Deputy Chief of Mission of the Indian Embassy in Moscow, Mr. Nikhilesh Chandra Giri, First Secretary of the Indian Embassy in Moscow Mr. Vivek Singh, Head of NPCIL Representation Office (Customer of implementation of Kudankulam NPP, the General Contractor of which is Rosatom Engineering Division) in RF Mr. Swapnil Srivastava…
November 28, 2024, 16:13 The Gazprom Management Committee approved the 2025–2029 Technology Program for the development of the remaining recoverable reserves of the Nadym-Pur-Taz region. The Nadym-Pur-Taz region (NPTR) in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area has traditionally been a hydrocarbon production region for the Gazprom Group. It should be noted that its reserves partially lie in hard-to-reach Achimov and Jurassic formations, which are located deeper…
November 28, 2024, 16:03 – Gazprom’s overall amount of investments under the 2025 investment program: RUB 1,523.7 billion. – Final investment program and budget will be approved by the Gazprom Board of Directors. The Gazprom Management Committee took note of the information about the Company’s preliminary operating results for 2024 and the projected investment program and budget (financial plan) for 2026–2027. The Management Committee also…
A ceremony dedicated to the filling of the first foundation was held at the construction site of Novolakskaya WPP in the Republic of Dagestan. The wind farm will be located on the territory of the Kumtorkalinsky and Novolaksky regions of the republic. The site will house 120 wind turbines with a capacity of 2.5 MW…
A ceremony dedicated to the pouring of the first foundation was held at the construction site of Novolakskaya WPP in the Republic of Dagestan. The wind farm will be located on the territory of the Kumtorkalinsky and Novolaksky regions of the republic. The site will house 120 wind turbines with a capacity of 2.5 MW…
The Subcommittee on Cooperation on the Northern Sea Route (NSR) of the Russia-China Committee for the Preparation of Regular Meetings between the Heads of Government had its first meeting in St. Petersburg on 25 November 2024. Alexey Likhachev, Rosatom Director General is the head of the Russian party of the Subcommittee and Liu Wei, China’s…
This esteemed tournament, supported by Rosatom, gathered the most promising young chess talents from Egypt and 13 other African countries, showcasing the strategic brilliance and intellectual capabilities of the continent’s youth. 210 players participated in the finals following the qualifying competitions. The winners of the 2024 African Junior Chess Championship are Hamid Wafa won the…
November 26, 2024, 14:35 The Gazprom Board of Directors took note of the information about the progress of the programs for gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and their synchronization with regional programs for converting housing and utilities, industries and other entities to gas, as well as the information about gas supply and expansion of gas grid coverage in the Krasnoyarsk…
November 26, 2024, 14:25 The Gazprom Board of Directors took note of the information about the development of the gas transmission infrastructure and the expansion of the gas supply and gas infrastructure network in Eastern Siberia and the Far East, including generating facilities. Gazprom is making comprehensive efforts for establishing a fully developed gas industry in the east of Russia. Among other things, the Company has created such…
November 25, 2024, 19:45 A working meeting took place between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Victor Parlicov, Minister of Energy of the Republic of Moldova. The meeting addressed the relevant matters pertaining to the interaction in the gas sector. In particular, the parties agreed to continue discussing options for organizing the supplies of Russian natural gas to Moldova starting from January 1, 2025,…
November 25, 2024, 13:50 A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Roman Sklyar, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan, took place today. The parties discussed their ongoing and future cooperation. For instance, attention was paid to the cooperation in gas supplies and transmission. The Heads of Agreement for the processing and sales of gas from…
Works for installation of the body of molten corium catcher (the so-called core catcher) of El-Dabaa NPP Unit 4 in Egypt (the General Designer and General Contractor being Rosatom Engineering Division) started on November 19. The core catcher is long-lead equipment. It consists of several elements with the total weight over 700 tons (the weight…
November 19, 2024, 21:30 Today, Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, as part of the Russian delegation, participated in the negotiations held in Tehran between Sergey Tsivilev, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, and the officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The meetings addressed the matters of cooperation between Russia and Iran in the energy sector. Background In June 2024, the Strategic Memorandum on the…
On November 18, the opening of the Center for Remote Participation (CRP), one of the communication nodes of the Unified information space for fusion research created by Rosatom, took place at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, the basic university of the Rosatom State Corporation. The tokamak "MEPHIST-0" was also connected to the Unified information…
November 14, 2024, 20:00 A Gazprom delegation takes part in the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is held in Baku (Azerbaijan). The Company representatives delivered reports as part of the Energy Day organized by the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation. In his speech, Kiril Polous, Deputy Head of Department – Head of Directorate, Gazprom, noted that Russia’s gas industry…
November 14, 2024, 19:50 The Gazprom Management Committee took note of the information about the impact of the events of 2024 on the long-term outlook for the global energy market. It was noted that, in the global energy sector, the main outcome of the year 2024 is a continuing growth in demand for conventional energy sources against the background of the unstable geopolitical situation and an increased attention to the…
November 14, 2024, 19:40 The Gazprom Management Committee approved the 2025–2029 Comprehensive Target Program for the Provision of Metrological Support for the Operations and Technological Processes of Gazprom. The document is designed to further enhance, as well as to ensure the technological development of, the system that monitors the physical-and-chemical properties and volume of gas during its pipeline transmission. To that end, the Company equips the…
November 14, 2024, 19:35 The Gazprom Management Committee took note of the information about the progress of additional gas infrastructure expansion in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, namely the efforts for bringing pipeline gas to the boundaries of private households and boiler houses of medical facilities and educational entities at no cost to the consumers. The additional gas grid expansion program is being implemented in accordance with the instructions…
On November 10, World Science Day, ROSATOM held the Global Atomic Quiz for the fifth time—an educational project aimed at highlighting various applications of nuclear technologies in different areas of human life. This year, the quiz was conducted both online and offline, attracting 25,000 participants from 100 countries. For comparison, in 2023, around 10,000 people…
November 11, 2024, 19:40 A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Huang Yongzhang, Vice President of CNPC, took place today. The parties discussed a wide array of matters pertaining to their strategic cooperation. Special priority was given to Russian gas supplies. It was noted that highly reliable supplies of Russian gas via the eastern route, i.e. the Power of Siberia gas pipeline,…
Rwanda said Saturday it was counting on Russia training its citizens to become specialists in nuclear energy, as the African country bets on nuclear power to boost its energy supply. Moscow is courting fresh diplomatic and economic ties with African countries, and its expertise in nuclear power is seen as one of the major draws…
Moscow is exploring a plan to merge its three largest oil companies into a single mega oil producer, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. Under the merger, state-backed Rosneft Oil would absorb Gazprom Neft—a subsidiary of the natural gas giant Gazprom—and Lukoil, sources familiar with the discussions told The Wall Street Journal. The deal would…
Burkina Faso’s foreign minister praised cooperation with Russia on Saturday as “suiting” his country better than its historic ties with France. Following a 2022 military coup, Burkina Faso’s new leadership broke with Paris and has embraced Russia, which has sent army instructors to help Ouagadougou’s fight against an Islamist insurgency. Attending a Russia-Africa summit in…
With the U.S. stock market making record gains on the back of Donald Trump’s election victory, analysts doubt the Russian market can benefit from a Trump rally to the same extent as it did in 2016. The S&P 500 index of 500 leading publicly traded U.S. firms broke the historic 6,000 mark on Nov. 8 for…
Competition is always good for the consumer. Thanks to healthy competition, almost 200 years ago Muscovites got clean and tidy bakeries with bread that was always fresh. From the end of the 1700s to the 1820s, the bakery trade in Moscow was entirely in the hands of Russian bakers. They were mainly peasants from Moscow…
Moscow summoned a Canadian diplomat on Friday to rebut Western allegations that Russia’s secret services had orchestrated a campaign to mail explosive packages to addresses in NATO countries, including Canada. After a series of fires at DHL depots in Britain and Germany this summer, Russia was accused of being behind a brazen plot to ship…
Russian prosecutors requested a six-year prison sentence for a Moscow pediatrician accused of criticizing the invasion of Ukraine during a private appointment Friday, despite the medic insisting she was innocent. Nadezhda Buyanova was accused by the ex-wife of a soldier killed in Ukraine of criticizing the war. She was arrested in February. The case against…
ROSATOM delegation took part in the African Energy Week 2024 (AEW 2024), the largest energy conference on the African continent that ended on 8 November in Cape Town (South Africa). Rosatom participated in the event for the second time, becoming this year’s gold sponsor. The forum brought together more than 5,000 participants including the continent’s…
Authorities in Russia designated the exiled stand-up comedian Denis Chuzhoi as a “foreign agent” on Friday. Russia’s Justice Ministry accused Chuzhoi, who used to write for comedy shows on Russian television, of opposing the full-scale invasion of Ukraine — or what the Kremlin insists on calling a “special military operation.” The Justice Ministry used his real…
A Russian military court sentenced two soldiers to life in prison for the murder of a family of nine, including two children, in occupied Ukraine, the business newspaper Kommersant reported Friday. The soldiers, Anton Sopov, 21, and Stanislav Rau, 28, were arrested on Oct. 30, 2023, two days after the Kapkanets family was found shot…
Russian law enforcement officers seized weapons and handed out military summons to Roma amid a fresh wave of police raids in the Chelyabinsk region, where a murder last month ignited long-simmering ethnic tensions and sparked local reprisals against the local Romani community. Chelyabinsk region police have carried out at least six “crime prevention” raids over…
Pro-Russia hacking groups have ramped up attacks against South Korea amid North Korean troop deployments in Russia, South Korea’s presidential office said Friday. Authorities in Seoul said they have convened an emergency meeting due to recent attacks targeting some government and private websites. No major damage has been reported, aside from temporary outages, South Korea’s…
Ukraine’s military intelligence claimed responsibility for a drone strike on an oil refinery in southern Russia’s Saratov region that eyewitnesses said sparked a blaze late Friday, according to media reports. “A drone was eliminated over the territory of Saratov overnight. Part of the debris fell in an industrial zone in the Zavodsky district,” Saratov region…
A Russian court has sentenced a man to 13 years in prison on “treason” charges after he was reported to have donated around $54 to Ukraine’s military. The Moscow City Court said Friday it had found Alexander Kraychik guilty of “high treason” saying he provided “financial assistance to a foreign state [to support] activities against…
ROSATOM reaffirmed its commitment as a key partner for African countries in achieving energy balance by hosting the discussion “From Vision to Action: Africa’s Sustainable Energy Transition through Green Innovation” at African Energy Week 2024 (AEW 2024), the continent’s premier industry event which finished on 8 November in Cape Town, South Africa. Participating in numerous…
Russian and Western traders and brokers are optimistic following Donald Trump’s election victory, the Financial Times reported, citing market sources. “All the talk this morning is about how to trade Russia and whether sanctions will be thrown off… [traders at Western banks] are questioning suddenly whether the ruble is now tradeable,” FT wrote. The value of Russian assets rose…
A Russian army general in charge of a unit alleged to have tortured its own soldiers and murdered a U.S. citizen was reportedly killed in Ukraine this week, becoming the eighth Russian general to die since President Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Major General Pavel Klimenko commanded the Russian ground forces’ 5th Separate…
ROSATOM Engineering Division has handed over to Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R.E. Alekseev (NNSTU) a virtual NPP unit (VNPP) that will be used for training of nuclear engineers. The software and hardware complex installed in Nizhny Novgorod university is a light version actively used by the Engineering Division’s designers in everyday work.…
The owner of Swedish furniture retailer IKEA has sold its last remaining property in Russia to a little-known businessman amid an ongoing wartime redistribution of assets. “We are now in the last part of the scaling down process, and we can confirm that we have sold [Ye]sipovo Distribution Center outside of Moscow, as well as remaining…
Venezuela and its most powerful ally Russia signed agreements Thursday on intelligence-gathering and counter-espionage, as well as energy cooperation, during a visit by a senior Kremlin official to Caracas. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko told Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez that his country stood ready to support Venezuela’s armed forces with “the most sophisticated…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said he was “ready” to hold discussions with “courageous” Donald Trump, as he congratulated him on his victory in the U.S. presidential election. “I take this opportunity to congratulate him,” Putin said in remarks to the Valdai forum in the southern city of Sochi. Asked whether he was open…
The toll from a Russian strike on the Ukrainian frontline city of Zaporizhzhia has risen to four, while two people were killed in a separate attack in the Donetsk region, officials said. Russian forces have stepped up their attacks in Zaporizhzhia in recent days and are making rapid advances in the industrial territory of Donetsk,…
Russian aerial attacks on the frontline city of Zaporizhzhia on Thursday killed at least four people and wounded another 40, including children, officials said. Another two were killed in a separate attack on the eastern Donetsk region, strikes that followed a wave of overnight drone attacks, including on the capital Kyiv. Russian forces have stepped…
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday praised Donald Trump for his victory in the U.S. presidential election and said the president-elect would deserve a Nobel Peace Prize if he fulfills his campaign promise to end the war in Ukraine. “If he [ends the war], we’ll petition for the Nobel Prize. He’ll be rewarded for doing a…
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday praised Donald Trump for his victory in the U.S. presidential election and said the president-elect would deserve a Nobel Peace Prize if he fulfills his campaign promise to end the war in Ukraine. “If he [ends the war], we’ll petition for the Nobel Prize. He’ll be rewarded for doing a…
ROSATOM will participate in the 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), which will begin on November 11 in Baku, Azerbaijan. ROSATOM’s involvement in the event aims to promote nuclear energy as a reliable source of clean energy, playing a key role in combating climate change and…
U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump has faced repeated scrutiny for what some consider being too soft on Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and even outright accusations of collaboration with Moscow, since he announced his first run for the presidency in 2015. In 2019, the U.S. Congress impeached then-President Trump for a phone call in which he pressured Ukrainian…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Thursday that offering concessions to Russia to end the war would be “suicidal” for Europe, coming as top Russian officials threatened the “destruction” of Ukraine’s population unless the West engaged in peace talks. Authorities in Kyiv have for months called on their Western allies to double down on past commitments to…
Unhappy at Turkey’s continued delivery of guns to Ukraine, Russia is on the other hand only too happy to get hold of a share of Turkey’s butter. Russia began importing Turkish butter last week with an initial 20-ton shipment. President Vladimir Putin has previously contended that Russia’s war economy is well balanced to supply both guns and butter, but fine words…
More than 500 Russian tourists are stranded on a cruise ship docked in Japan, awaiting permission from Tokyo to return home, Russia’s Embassy in Japan said Thursday. The Spectrum of the Seas, operated by Royal Caribbean International, is currently in Yokohama port due to an engine problem, according to social media posts from passengers aboard…
Russian President Vladimir Putin may speak with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump before his inauguration in January, but the Kremlin leader will not initiate contact, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday. Trump, who secured a historic second term in the White House on Wednesday, has pledged to end the war in Ukraine before taking the oath…
This year Western sanctions and political tensions have kept most Russian directors and actors focused on projects at home. But there is an exception — the film “Anora,” which was directed by American Sean Baker and features a predominantly Russian cast. The film emerged as the surprise hit of the year, winning the prestigious Palme…
Unlike Trump’s first presidential victory in 2016, which Russian elites greeted with jubilation, the Republican’s comeback is being met with more apprehension in Moscow. At least from an economic point of view, there are no good omens for a second Trump administration. Sanctions pressure set to continue Trump made all sorts of controversial (and contradictory)…
Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump have put forward several proposals that would effectively freeze the war in Ukraine, solidifying Moscow’s territorial gains, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing anonymous sources close to Trump. Trump, who criticized outgoing President Joe Biden’s handling of the Ukraine conflict, vowed during his campaign to end the war before…
Alexey Likhachev, the head of ROSATOM, attended the launching ceremony of the fourth serial nuclear icebreaker, Chikotka, at USC Baltic Shipyard JSC in St. Petersburg on November 6. President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, ordered the launch of the vessel via videoconferencing. He noted that the creation of such powerful vessels demonstrates Russia’s industrial,…
The United Kingdom on Thursday introduced a new round of sanctions targeting Russia’s military, private mercenary groups and an intelligence agent suspected of involvement in the 2018 Novichok poisoning in Salisbury. “New targets include suppliers supporting Russia’s military production, Russian-backed mercenary groups operating in Sub-Saharan Africa and a GRU agent involved in the use of…
A Siberian court sentenced a foreign student to 14 years in prison on charges of promoting and participating in terrorist activities, state media reported Thursday, citing law enforcement officials. The First Eastern Military Garrison Court in Khabarovsk found the student guilty of “justifying and propagandizing” an international terrorist organization since early 2023, according to the…