Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed deepening defense industry cooperation with Russia during talks with his counterpart Vladimir Putin this week, the Turkish leader was quoted as saying Thursday. Erdogan and Putin held their first face-to-face talks in 18 months in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Wednesday, with the Syrian conflict high on…
Russian and U.S. diplomats held talks behind closed doors in Geneva on Thursday, the latest round of discussions aimed at ironing out the many tensions between the world’s top two nuclear powers. U.S. State Department number two Wendy Sherman and Russia’s deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov were due to meet for most of the day…
Russia’s LGBT, radical feminist and child-free groups should be recognized as “extremist,” the chairman of an influential government commission said Wednesday. “LGBT ideology, radical feminism and child-free movements should be recognized as extremism — an extremist ideology,” the state-run TASS news agency cited Andrei Tsyganov, chairman of a commission for the protection of children at…
Russia on Thursday reported its highest coronavirus death toll for a third day in a row, as infections spike driven by the contagious Delta variant and slow vaccination rates. A government tally reported 867 fatalities over the past 24 hours and 23,888 new cases. The new figure brings the country’s total deaths from Covid-19 to…
September 29, 2021, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia – Rusatom Overseas JSC (a company of ROSATOM), KAMAZ PTC, Far East and Arctic Development Corporation JSC and Sakhalin Region Development Corporation JSC have signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the development and application of hydrogen technologies in the transport sector on Sakhalin Island. The parties will consider…
Russian residents may soon be able to receive vaccines not recognized by the government, the Kommersant business daily reported, citing a Health Ministry proposal put up for public discussion. The move to relax import rules could potentially allow Russians to have Western coronavirus jabs like Pfizer and Moderna, as well as Chinese vaccines like Sinopharm…
September 30, 2021 PAO Severstal has delivered 6,000 tons of large diameter pipes (LDP) to the Republic of Peru in South America. The LDP were produced at the Izhorsky Pipe Plant (ITZ, part of Severstal’s Russian Steel division), located at the Company’s industrial site in St. Petersburg’s Kolpinsky district. The pipes were manufactured according to…
President Vladimir Putin told Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday he should use Russia’s Sputnik for his next booster jab and boasted of high antibody levels as he hosted the Turkish leader for talks. In a warm exchange after three hours of talks at Putin’s residence in the resort city of Sochi, Putin said he had recently…
Russia added the independent news site Mediazona and the police monitoring website OVD-Info to its registry of “foreign agents” Wednesday, amid what critics describe as a widening crackdown on independent voices in the country. The Justice Ministry also added Mediazona editor-in-chief Sergei Smirnov, as well as its co-founder Pyotr Verzilov, to a list of individuals…
Enterprises of Rosneft’s Samara production complex took part in cleaning up Podzhabny Island in the waters of the Volga River as part of the global campaign ‘We Clean Up the World’
Candidates who topped the electoral lists of Russia’s ruling party in this month’s legislative elections will not take their seats in parliament, officials said on Wednesday. The announcement prompted opposition figures to accuse the Kremlin of duping voters, on top of allegations of widespread electoral fraud. On Wednesday, the Central Election Commission said four of…
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that three dozen people in his inner circle have tested positive for the coronavirus because they failed to receive booster shots on time. Fresh off his two-week self-isolation due to an outbreak within his entourage, Putin was filmed on state television telling Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about high…
The founder of one of Russia’s leading cybersecurity firms has been arrested on suspicion of treason after authorities searched his office. Ilya Sachkov, who set up Group-IB in 2003, could face up to 20 years in prison under treason charges brought by Moscow’s Lefortovo district court Wednesday. Group-IB said it was “examining” the charges brought…
Russia has decried YouTube’s decision to delete the state-funded RT broadcaster’s German-language channels as “information warfare,” saying it could block German media or even YouTube itself in retaliation. YouTube said Tuesday it had deleted RT’s DE and DFP channels for repeatedly breaching its coronavirus misinformation policy. The German government, responding to accusations of involvement from…
Russia on Wednesday recorded its highest coronavirus death toll for a second day running, as infections are on the rise driven by the Delta variant and slow vaccination rates. A government tally reported 857 fatalities over the past 24 hours and 22,430 new cases. The new figure brings the country’s total deaths from Covid-19 to…
September 29, 2021, 09:40 The Gazprom Board of Directors took note of the information on the implementation of a socially-oriented and cost-effective system of gas infrastructure expansion and gas supplies to serve the needs of the population. It was noted that gas infrastructure expansion is the most ambitious socially significant project of Gazprom. The Company continues to implement the instructions of Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, for expediting additional gas grid…
The Russian government has decried YouTube’s decision to delete the state-funded RT broadcaster’s German-language channels as “information warfare” and said it will block German media in Russia in retaliation. The video streaming website on Tuesday deleted RT’s DE and DFP channels for breaching coronavirus misinformation policy. “This is a real media war declared by the…
September 29, 2021 PAO Severstal, one of the world’s largest vertically integrated steel and mining companies, announces the acquisition of more than 40 patents and patent applications from Arcanum Alloys Inc., an American company that develops and produces steel alloy diffusion technology. In September 2019, Severstal became the lead investor in Arcanum Alloys’ most recent…
Russia’s Investigative Committee on Tuesday opened a criminal case against jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and eight of his closest allies, most of whom have already fled the country. Navalny, who was imprisoned in February for two and a half years on old fraud charges he calls trumped up after returning from a near-fatal poisoning…
The Tretyakov Gallery is holding the first solo exhibition of works by Yuri Pimenov (1903-1977), a retrospective that presents the legacy of one of the most significant Soviet artists of the 20th century. He is best known for his painting “New Moscow” which became a symbol of so-called “Stalinist glamor.” His depiction of a woman…
Moscow authorities attempted to raid the Communist Party’s city headquarters Tuesday, minutes before a group of party lawyers was preparing to file a lawsuit to challenge controversial online voting results from last week’s parliamentary elections. Police also blocked one of the party’s leading parliamentarians from gaining access to his office in the State Duma, where…
Russia posted a record 852 deaths from Covid-19 on Tuesday amid a spike in cases in Moscow and sluggish vaccination uptake. The government’s Covid-19 information center also reported 21,559 new cases over the past 24 hours. Russia now has the fifth-largest number of recorded Covid-19 cases in the world and the highest death toll in…
Russia’s Gazprom and Hungary have signed a 15-year gas supply contract, triggering fury from Ukraine. Budapest on Monday confirmed the deal, which will bring around 4.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Russia each year until 2036 through transit routes in Austria and Serbia via the new TurkStream pipeline which runs under the Black…
A Ukrainian soldier and a separatist fighter have been killed in the latest clashes in the conflict-ridden east of the country, the two sides said. The Ukrainian army has been locked in a long-running conflict with separatist fighters in the eastern Donetsk and Lugansk regions since 2014 after Moscow annexed the peninsula of Crimea from…
YouTube considers free speech to be one of its “core values” despite its removal of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s voting strategy videos ahead of Russia’s parliamentary elections, the video streaming site’s CEO told Bloomberg Television on Monday. Google-owned YouTube sparked cries of censorship both in Russia and abroad when it blocked the “Smart Voting”…
Novokuibyshevsk Petrochemical Company, an enterprise of Rosneft’s oil refining and petrochemical complex, put into operation a mobile control station for monitoring the atmospheric air condition
Jailed Belarus opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova was awarded one of Europe’s top human rights awards, the Vaclav Havel Prize, on Monday for leading protests against strongman President Alexander Lukashenko last year. Kolesnikova was sentenced to 11 years in prison last month over her role in the mass protests that erupted after Lukashenko claimed victory in…
September 27, 2021, 17:05 Gazprom Export and MVM CEEnergy Ltd. today signed in Budapest two long-term contracts for supplies of Russian gas to Hungary. The documents were signed in the presence of Peter Szijjarto, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, and Elena Burmistrova, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, Director General of Gazprom Export. Both contracts, which in total envisage supplies of up to 4.5 billion…
The Kremlin wants continuity in relations with Germany, one of Russia’s largest trading partners in Europe, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said Monday as Germany’s tight election results have led to coalition talks. “Of course, we count on continuity in our bilateral relations,” Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters, as quoted by the state-run TASS…
President Vladimir Putin joined Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu for a three-day hunting and fishing trip in the Siberian forests. According to the Kremlin, Putin made the stopover in Siberia while he was on his way back to Moscow from an economic forum in the Far East city of Vladivostok earlier this month — and before…
On September 20, the new edition of the TENEX Group Supplier Code of Conduct was approved. The upd ated document incorporates the most relevant international requirements and approaches in the field of sustainable development. Today, a company’s systematic approach to sustainable development constitutes one of the key factors of its competitiveness in the world market.…
ROSATOM took part in the 65th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), held in Vienna, Austria on September 20-24. The conference was attended by delegates from 173 IAEA member states. Due to restrictions ensuing from the ongoing epidemiological crisis, the conference was held in a hybrid format for the second year in…
The bodies of all five victims of a helicopter crash site in the Kamchatka region in Russia’s Far East have been found, the state-run TASS news agency reported on Monday citing a source in the aviation services. The Kamov Ka-27 helicopter crashed last Friday near Mount Ostraya, killing its entire crew. The wreckage was found…
This year’s Champions League features an improbable upstart: FC Sheriff, a club run by an eponymous company built on murky money in a pro-Russian separatist enclave of Europe’s poorest country, Moldova. The would-be state, which harkens back to its Soviet past with a towering Lenin statue in the center of its administrative hub, Tiraspol, broke…
Lewis Hamilton finally claimed his 100th Formula One success on Sunday, the peerless Mercedes driver emerging triumphant amid high drama at the rain-hit Russian Grand Prix to retake the championship lead. With a late downpour causing havoc Hamilton reached the unprecedented century after being stuck on 99 since the British Grand Prix in July. The 36-year-old…
At least 11 fighters from a pro-Turkish rebel group were killed Sunday in Russian air raids in northern Syria, a war monitor said Sunday. The strikes hit a school used as a “military base” by the Al-Hamza Division outside the north Syria town of Afrin which has been under the control of Turkey and its…
Leo Tolstoy’s life and works are copiously documented in editions of his writings in dozens of languages, new translations, biographies, critical studies, diaries and memoirs written by Tolstoy himself, his family, and his friends. If you already have several shelves bending under all these Tolstoys and about-Tolstoys, do you need another biography? If it’s Andrei…
On Oct. 15, SPATEN HAUS Grand, a new flagship restaurant specializing in modern German cuisine, will be launched in Moscow. The opening is timed to coincide with the main German folk festival — Oktoberfest — which will be celebrated at the restaurant almost every day till Oct. 31. SPATEN HAUS Grand offers a rich entertainment…
Over a thousand Russians including prominent members of the Communist Party packed Saturday a central square in Moscow to protest what Kremlin critics call mass electoral fraud as police detained a number of activists. Opponents of President Vladimir Putin have accused the authorities of fraud after results showed the deeply unpopular ruling United Russia party…
Cod is not inherently a sexy fish. Cod’s got nothing on salmon, and it can’t really compete with tuna or snapper. At its freshest, cod can be an excellent base for some iconic dishes, including fish and chips, fish chowder, and, of course, Brandade de Morue (France’s incomparable whipped cod and potato spread). But on…
RN-Uvatneftegaz, an oil producing enterprise of Rosneft Oil Company, has planted over 1.2 million pine seedlings.
Russia has designated the Church of Scientology an “undesirable organization” Friday, effectively banning it within the country and putting its members at risk of jail time. Russia has previously attempted to prohibit the Church of Scientology, a religion that is recognized in some countries but considered by others to be a cult, since it arrived…
Buy a book or two dozen The Moscow International Book Fair (Sept. 24-27) is one of Moscow’s biggest book fairs — in fact, it’s two book fairs: one on Red Square in the summer and another, bigger one at the Expo Center in the fall. A few hundred publishing houses, periodicals, bookstores, museums, and organizations…
The European Union on Friday condemned alleged Russian cyberattacks that have targeted Germany in the run-up to this weekend’s election for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s successor. “Some EU Member States have observed malicious cyber activities, collectively designated as ‘Ghostwriter,’ and associated these with the Russian state,” foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said. “Such activities are unacceptable as…
The ruling, pro-Putin United Russia party kept its supermajority in the lower house of parliament despite critics claiming mass fraud and tampering during the three-day election, according to final results announced by election officials Friday. Russia’s opposition has raised strong doubts over the results’ legitimacy after remote voting showed United Russia candidates taking every single-mandate district…
The chief finance officer and deputy chairman of the board at Russian gas producer Novatek has been arrested in the United States on charges of tax fraud, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement Thursday. A federal grand jury indicted Mark Gyetvay for hiding assets that were at one point worth up to $93…
Five climbers died after a blizzard on Mount Elbrus, Russia’s emergencies ministry said Friday, in one of the worst tragedies in recent years on Europe’s highest peak. Elbrus, a dormant volcano in Russia’s North Caucasus region, is the highest mountain in Europe at 5,642 meters (18,510 feet) and is seeing a domestic tourist boom due…
Russia posted an all-time record of 828 deaths from Covid-19 on Friday as hospitalizations shot up in Moscow and several regions reportedly began reimposing restrictions after nationwide elections last weekend. The government’s Covid-19 information center said the country recorded 21,379 new cases over the past 24 hours. The new high for deaths comes a day…
A court in the city of Volgograd in southwestern Russia sentenced four Jehovah’s Witnesses to more than 6 years in prison each on extremism charges Thursday, the religious organization said in a statement. The Traktorozavodsky district court sentenced Valery Rogozin to 6 years and 5 months, Igor Yegozaryan and Sergei Melnik to 6 years, and…
Five climbers died after a blizzard on Mount Elbrus, Europe’s highest peak, Russia’s emergencies ministry said Friday. Thursday’s incident struck when a group of 19 climbers was at an altitude of over 5,000 meters. Elbrus, located in Russia’s North Caucasus, is the highest mountain in Europe at 5,642 meters. “Unfortunately, five people died,” the emergencies…
A senior investigator in Russia’s Perm region died by suicide days after a rare campus shooting claimed six lives and left dozens injured, Russian media reported Thursday. The body of Sergei Sarapultsev, who headed the Russian Investigative Committee’s Perm region branch, was found dead in his home. On Monday, an 18-year-old Perm State University student…
Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny accused Google and Apple Thursday of acting as the Kremlin’s “accomplices” after the companies removed his voting app during the country’s parliamentary election last week. “If something surprised me in the latest elections, it was not how (President Vladimir) Putin forged the results, but how obediently the almighty Big…
The French government said Thursday it was in talks with Moscow about suspending a contested law barring French champagne producers from labeling their bubbly “champagne” on bottles sold in Russia. France, home of champagne, jealously guards its AOC, or Appellation of Controlled Origin, which give its producers exclusive use of the term in many countries. But Russia…
Polish campaigners on Thursday accused the government of forcibly sending dozens of migrants back across the Belarus border after detaining them inside Polish territory. Thousands of migrants — mostly from the Middle East — have crossed or tried to cross into Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland in recent months. The European Union has accused Belarus of…
A group of Russian parliamentary candidates said Thursday they are uniting to abolish electronic voting and called for nationwide rallies to protest the results of last weekend’s elections. Russia’s opposition has raised questions over the election results’ legitimacy after the ruling, pro-Kremlin United Russia party won a landslide victory and took every district in Moscow.…
TBILISI, Georgia — On a hot autumn day, a sun-baked Tbilisi square feels a world away from cold and blustery St. Petersburg, where Ivan Pavlov is used to running between courtrooms defending some of the Kremlin’s harshest critics. “I have had to readjust my life, which has not been easy, I have had to start…
Belarus has extended the house arrest of a Russian student who was detained when Minsk ordered the forced landing of a Ryanair flight to arrest a dissident blogger, the BBC’s Russian service has reported. Russian citizen Sofia Sapega, 23, was arrested alongside her boyfriend, Belarusian opposition blogger Roman Protasevich, in May. The pair were traveling…
Search teams that were able to reach the crash site of a military transport plane in the remote stretches of the Russian Far East have found no survivors, the Emergency Situations Ministry said Thursday. The An-26 with six crew members on board vanished from radars during a “technical flight” Wednesday evening in the Khabarovsk region…
Russia reported 820 deaths from Covid-19 on Thursday equalling August’s record, while Moscow reported its highest number of daily cases since July. The government’s Covid-19 information center said Moscow had recorded 3,445 new cases in the past 24 hours. Russia has the fifth-highest number of recorded Covid-19 cases in the world and the highest death…
Moscow election officials on Thursday said they found no evidence of wrongdoing in online voting in parliamentary elections after a technical recount of the votes. “The election observation headquarters in Moscow did not find any traces of hacking or ballot stuffing in online voting,” the head of the group Alexei Venediktov said on the Telegram…