Nizhny Novgorod, one of the largest nuclear industry centers in Russia, hosted the International Science for Peace and Development Dialogue Forum, sponsored by the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO. The dialogue forum took place on November 10 (World Science Day for Peace and Development) at the Mayak Academy. This event was part of…
Dozens of migrants have been detained after crossing into Poland from Belarus, Warsaw said on Sunday, warning of a possible larger breakthrough ahead of an EU meeting to widen sanctions on Belarus. Police said on Twitter that 50 migrants had crossed the heavily guarded EU and NATO border near the village of Starzyna “by force”…
MINSK – Opposite the Minsk Sports Palace, a brutalist 1960s indoor ice hockey arena in the Belarusian capital, a column of around fifty men and women walks behind a police officer in a black balaclava covering everything but his eyes. Some are carrying their children. The officer leads them to the parking lot opposite the…
The saying, “what goes around, comes around,” true about so many things, is especially apt regarding boomeranging culinary trends. Thanks to TikTok, many antiquated dishes that might have otherwise quietly died deserved deaths have come roaring back into fashion. I appreciate a good charcuterie board as much as the next person, but I don’t aspire…
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview aired Saturday that Moscow had nothing to do with the migrant crisis on the Belarus-Poland border. “I want everyone to know. We have nothing to do with it,” he said in an interview with state broadcaster Vesti, after Poland and other Western critics accused Moscow of working…
The Russian government said Friday it had submitted to parliament two bills that will introduce mandatory health passes to access restaurants and public transport, amid a new wave of coronavirus cases. With more than 8.9 million cases registered since the start of the pandemic, Russia is one of the worst-hit countries in the world and…
Two Russian paratroopers died during snap military drills with Belarus near its western border with EU member Poland on Friday when their parachutes malfunctioned in strong winds, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said. “Despite doctors’ efforts both Russian servicemen died of their wounds,” the ministry said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies. Earlier…
Background According to preliminary data, Gazprom’s gas supplies to Germany in the period from January 1 to November 11, 2021, amounted to 45.7 billion cubic meters, which is 20.6 per cent (or 7.8 billion cubic meters) more than in the same period of 2020 (37.9 billion cubic meters). VNG is engaged in natural gas imports, underground storage and consumer supplies in Germany’s eastern federal states and in Berlin. The company…
Update: Late Friday evening, Russia’s Defense Ministry said at least two paratroopers have died during landing. Russia said Friday it sent paratroopers near the Polish border for joint drills with Belarus as Moscow stepped up military involvement in the neighbor’s territory amid tensions with the West over an escalating migrant crisis in recent days. The Russian…
The European Union said on Friday that it was alarmed by Russian military activities close to Ukraine’s border, after Washington demanded an explanation from Moscow. “We continue to watch the situation and the information we gathered so far is rather worrying,” EU foreign affairs spokesman Peter Stano told journalists. He said the 27-nation bloc was…
Russia has added the founder of a prominent prisoners’ rights NGO that has leaked video of alleged widespread prison torture to its wanted list for a second time, the activist said Friday. Gulagu.net founder Vladimir Osechkin, who has lived in France since 2015, was added to Russia’s wanted list two days after the NGO published…
Closing down respected Russian rights group Memorial would deal a “devastating blow” to civil society in the country, the secretary-general of pan-European rights body the Council of Europe said Friday. The closure of “Memorial would deal a further devastating blow to civil society, which is an essential pillar of any democracy,” said Marija Pejcinovic Buric,…
Belarus’ flagship carrier Belavia announced Friday that it will no longer transport passengers from three Middle East countries from Turkey to Minsk as the migrant standoff on the Poland-Belarus border placed it at risk of EU sanctions. Belavia said the ban on passengers from Syria, Iraq and Yemen goes into effect immediately and is the…
12 November 2021 – ROSATOM took part in the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), held in Glasgow; the event ended on 12 November 2021. The large international conference brought together about 25,000 people, including heads of state and heads of government from more than 120 countries. Nuclear power occupied an important…
Russia is not among the countries the European Union is considering sanctioning over the migrant crisis on the Poland-Belarus border, a senior EU official said Thursday after reports suggested Brussels could punish Russia’s flagship carrier Aeroflot for what it called “human trafficking.” Bloomberg previously reported that the European Commission was considering sanctioning Aeroflot alongside Belarus’ Belavia,…
ISTANBUL – As the last rays of the setting sun shone through Istanbul Airport’s floor-to-ceiling windows on Wednesday, a large group of Iraqi men, women and children gathered in front of the departure gate for Minsk. “This is our lucky ticket, we are going to Europe,” said Zoran, 18, wrapped in a thick winter coat…
A database of Russians who purchased fake coronavirus vaccine certificates has leaked online, the Kommersant business daily reported Friday, with experts warning that the buyers are now at risk of both blackmail and jail time. With vaccine skepticism rampant, many Russians have turned to the black market to purchase counterfeit QR code passes that prove one’s…
The staff at Ukraine’s English-language newspaper The Kyiv Post announced efforts to relaunch as an “independent” publication Thursday, days after its owner shuttered it amid a dispute over editorial independence. The Kyiv Post’s publisher, real estate developer Adnan Kivan, made the shocking announcement Monday that the newspaper will close “for a short time” after 26 years…
November 12, 2021 PAO Severstal, one of the world’s leading vertically integrated steel and steel-related mining companies, has developed a Climate Memorandum “Together towards a low-carbon Future” in support of global efforts to prevent further climate change. Schneider Electric and Air Liquide are the first partners to join the initiative to join forces on ensuring…
Russian prosecutors are moving to shutter the country’s most respected rights group Memorial, it announced Thursday, in the latest legal effort to silence independent voices critical of President Vladimir Putin. Memorial said it was notified by Russia’s Supreme Court that prosecutors had filed a demand to dissolve the group over systematic violations of “foreign agent”…
Moscow vowed Thursday to continue military cooperation with Mali and to defend the Sahel state’s territorial integrity while denying any links to Russian military contractors in the country. The Kremlin came under scrutiny earlier this year from France and Germany over a reported deal to send 1,000 fighters from the Kremlin-linked Wagner mercenary group to…
Iraq has announced evacuation plans for its citizens stranded in Belarus on Thursday amid mounting calls to address the migrants’ plight. Hundreds of migrants, mainly from the Middle East, have gathered on the border this week in hopes of crossing into European Union member Poland and claiming asylum. Belarus says some 2,000 people are living at the…
Background As per the list of instructions of Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, dated May 31, 2020, gas infrastructure expansion in Russia is to be completed in a stepwise manner by 2024 and 2030, and residential consumers must not bear any expenses for the connections to gas distribution networks. In June 2021, a number of important amendments were introduced into Federal Law No. 69-FZ on Gas Supplies in the Russian Federation.…
Belarus and Poland have been locked in a war of words as a migrant crisis on their shared border has escalated in the past week. Warsaw and the European Union accuse Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of orchestrating the transport of thousands of migrants, mainly from the Middle East, to the Polish border in retaliation for…
On this day in 1821, Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow into the family of an army doctor who worked at a hospital for the poor. After finishing school in Moscow, Dostoevsky joined the army and studied engineering in St. Petersburg, where he was captivated — or perhaps invented — the city’s dark allure. He…
November 11, 2021, 16:55 The Gazprom Management Committee took note of the information about gas supplies to the Khabarovsk Territory from 2025. It was highlighted that work is continuing at Gazprom to provide reliable gas supplies to the consumers of the region. The expansion of the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas trunkline at the section between Komsomolsk-on-Amur and Khabarovsk is now at its final stage. To date, as many as 376 out of 390.8 kilometers of the linear part (including…
November 11, 2021, 16:45 The Gazprom Management Committee approved the 2022–2026 Comprehensive Target Program for the Provision of Metrological Support for the Operations and Technological Processes of Gazprom. It was highlighted that one of the main targets pursued by the Gazprom metrology unit is to ensure accurate and reliable measurements of gas volumes during gas transmission. Year after year, this target is successfully achieved through systemic…
Belarus’s strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko vowed Thursday to respond to any new sanctions imposed over the migrant crisis on the country’s border with Poland, including by potentially cutting off the transit of natural gas to Europe. “If they impose additional sanctions on us… we must respond,” Lukashenko said in comments to officials released by the…
Russia’s flagship airline Aeroflot has denied helping migrants and refugees from the Middle East travel to Belarus as European leaders scramble to deal with a migrant crisis on the Polish border. A Bloomberg report that the European Commission was considering sanctioning the state-controlled airline for participating in what Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has…
Plans to renovate the iconic central Moscow building that houses Russia’s state-run TASS news agency are facing fierce opposition from residents and architects. The unique Soviet brutalist building was built on Ulitsa Bolshaya Nikitskaya in 1977, with plans to reconstruct its facade and fit its windows with metal frames mothballed since 2016. An online association…
A string of recent underwhelming stock market launches and abandoned deals has taken the shine off of Russia’s record-breaking wave of initial public offerings (IPOs). Two mega deals have been scrapped in the last week — carsharing firm Delimobil and discount alcohol retailer Mercury Retail — with analysts and investors pointing to high asking prices,…
A court in central Russia has jailed an ally of imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, making her the first member of his network to be arrested on retroactive charges of extremism, her lawyer said Wednesday. Liliya Chanysheva is the former head of Navalny’s political headquarters in the city of Ufa 1,000 kilometers east of Moscow. The…
Poland said Wednesday it had seen a surge in attempts to breach its border and pushed back hundreds of migrants to Belarus, accusing Minsk of “state terrorism” by provoking a new migrant crisis in Europe. Concern was growing for more than 2,000 migrants — mainly Kurds from the Middle East — who are trapped at…
A sapphire-and-diamond brooch and matching ear clips which once belonged to Russia’s Romanov imperial dynasty were snapped up at a Sotheby’s auction Wednesday for $900,000. The jewels, which belonged to grand duchess Maria Pavlovna the Elder (1854-1920), the aunt of the last tsar, Nicholas II, were smuggled out of Russia for safekeeping during the 1917 revolution…
Russian prosecutors on Wednesday dismissed the criminal case against a former prison inmate who leaked videos of torture inside a Russian jail and is now seeking asylum in France. Last month, the Gulagu.net NGO published footage of abuse at a prison in the central city of Saratov. The videos were leaked by Sergei Savelyev —…
ROSATOM is going to be a global partner of the 25th World Energy Congress (WEC 2022) which will be held in Saint-Petersburg on October 24-27, 2022 (EXPOFORUM). The event Organizer is ROSCONGRESS. The World Energy Congress is the major event of the World Energy Council. The Congress is held twice in three years and brings…
A cargo ship has been left stranded on the shore of Russia’s Far East. The Panama-flagged Rise Shine ship suffered a crack in its hull after running aground during a storm Monday night near the port of Nakhodka in the Primorye region. Reports said the vessel was carrying 200 containers along with more than 300…
Poland said Wednesday it had seen a surge in attempts to breach its border and had pushed back hundreds of migrants to Belarus, after it accused Minsk and Moscow of trying to orchestrate a crisis on Europe’s borders. The migrants, mainly from the Middle East, have spent days in freezing temperatures on the border, blocked…
The first batch of uranium-plutonium REMIX nuclear fuel for VVER 1000 reactor has been manufactured and successfully passed acceptance at Siberian Chemical Combine, an enterprise of Rosatom’s TVEL Fuel company in Seversk, Tomsk region. Each of the six fuel bundles of the standard TVS-2M model fully consists of REMIX fuel rods with uranium-plutonium pellets instead…
This article contains graphic content that may be disturbing to some readers. A prominent NGO that tracks abuses in Russia’s prison system has released a new leaked video that shows inmates being sexually assaulted in a notorious prison hospital at the heart of a national torture scandal. “These terrifying videos are unpleasant to watch and…
Russia is developing an advanced, never-before-seen S-550 missile system, the Defense Ministry announced Tuesday. Reports suggested the model is a revival of a late Soviet project shuttered in a deal with the United States. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said the orders came from President Vladimir Putin at a recent meeting with military top brass. “The…
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his ally, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, on Tuesday discussed a migrant stand-off on the border between Poland and Belarus, the Kremlin said. In a statement, Moscow said the two longtime leaders “exchanged opinions on the situation with refugees” on the border, where a wave of migrants has amassed in recent…
Russians are increasingly facing prosecution for posting provocative photos of themselves in front of religious landmarks in what analysts say reflects the Kremlin’s intensifying focus on defending conservative values. At least four cases have been launched in recent weeks against young people, mostly women, for posting sexually suggestive content on social media near places of…
Russia become the world leader in coronavirus deaths last week for the first time since the start of the pandemic. With 8,311 deaths registered by the World Health Organization (WHO) during the week of Nov. 1-7, Russia passed the United States in absolute figures. The U.S. registered 8,101 Covid deaths during the same period, representing a…
Uranium One has entered into an agreement with the American company Uranium Energy Corp. for the sale of all of the shares of its subsidiary, Uranium One Americas, Inc. (Uranium One Americas). The assets of Uranium One Americas are situated in Wyoming, and include seven uranium projects in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and…
8 November 2021, Glasgow, UK – “Clean Nuclear Energy Day” took place on November 8 as part of the twenty-sixth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26), held in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The special “Clean Nuclear Energy Day” programme was made possible with ROSATOM’s support. Taking place at…
Russia’s internet watchdog is considering sweeping bans of “perverted” TV shows and movies on streaming platforms in a proposal criticized by industry players as vague and punitive, the Vedomosti business daily reported Tuesday. Roskomnadzor, the state media and communications regulator, has reportedly proposed simultaneous changes to three Russian laws regulating media, protection of children from harmful content…
Russia’s internet watchdog is considering sweeping bans of “perverted” TV shows and movies on streaming platforms in a proposal criticized by industry players as vague and punitive, the Vedomosti business daily reported Tuesday. Roskomnadzor, the state media and communications regulator, has reportedly proposed simultaneous changes to three Russian laws regulating media, protection of children from harmful content…
Russian gas giant Gazprom said Tuesday it had begun implementing a plan to restock European gas storage facilities, after critics accused Moscow of holding back supplies. Europe, which receives a third of its gas supplies from Russia, has seen energy prices soaring to record highs as economies come back online after the end of pandemic…
Poland and Belarus squared off on Tuesday over thousands of migrants aiming to enter EU member Poland, with Warsaw saying the wave threatened the security of the entire bloc. Minsk warned against “provocations” on the border, where armed troops from both countries are deployed amid escalating tensions. Trapped between the rhetoric are thousands of people, many…
Representatives of Rosneft have taken part in the 10th MARESEDU-2021 Maritime Studies and Education international research and training conference in Moscow.
Russia set a new record for daily coronavirus deaths Tuesday as the country emerged from a weeklong paid holiday meant to curb the record-breaking spread of infections. According to government figures, 1,211 people died from Covid in the past 24 hours. Russia’s total death toll based on daily figures now stands at 249,215 — Europe’s…
Georgia’s jailed ex-president and opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on hunger strike for weeks, said on Monday he feared for his life after prison guards assaulted him. Saakashvili, who served as president between 2004 and 2013, was arrested on Oct. 1 on his return from exile in Ukraine. He has refused food for…
Ukraine’s English-language newspaper and website the Kyiv Post announced its abrupt closure Monday amid what its staff called a dispute over editorial independence. The outlet’s publisher, real estate developer Adnan Kivan, said the newspaper will close “for a short time” after 26 years in circulation. “One day, we hope to reopen the newspaper bigger and…
An underground crematorium in central Russia was found to have continued burning human remains despite being shut down by authorities two years ago, the Znak.com news website reported Monday. The outlet said it initiated an inspection in 2019 of an illegal site near two major Kurgan city hospitals 2,000 kilometers east of Moscow. The inspection…
Former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed has gone on hunger strike in a remote Russian prison, ABC News reported Tuesday, citing his family. A Russian court last year sentenced Reed, 30, to nine years behind bars on charges of assaulting a Moscow police officer while drunk in 2019. The U.S. government and Reed deny the charges…
Rosneft completed a series of road shows of the Vostok Oil project for foreign suppliers and contractors.
Poland said it blocked a bid by hundreds of migrants to illegally enter the country from Belarus on Monday, warning of an “armed” escalation as thousands more massed near the border. As the latest grim chapter of Europe’s migrant crisis unfolded, Washington and Brussels called on Minsk to stop what they described as an orchestrated influx. NATO…
Russia on Monday declared the main group defending LGBTQ rights a “foreign agent” on Monday, as part of a continuing crackdown on media outlets and rights groups. The ministry also declared several lawyers close to the Russian opposition “foreign agents.” The Russian LGBT Network, which was set up in 2006 and operates in several regions,…
On Nov. 11 and 12 in St. Petersburg the Russian premiere of Angelin Preljocaj’s unorthodox rendition of Swan Lake will be performed at the Baltiinsky Dom Theater in St. Petersburg as part of this year’s Diaghilev P.S. International Arts Festival. One of the most celebrated choreographers of our time, Preljocaj’s productions have become part of…