Russia’s parliamentary elections next week are set to be some of the least competitive in years after a number of independent and opposition candidates were barred from running. The Sept. 19 elections to the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, are being seen as a test of support for the ruling, pro-Kremlin United Russia…
When State Duma deputy Oleg Shein runs for re-election later this month, he will do so without any expectation that the government might change, his party might win, or even that the vote itself will be clean. “Obviously elections in Russia are very far from being fair,” said Shein, who represents the southern city of…
Moscow announced Friday the completion of the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which critics say will increase Europe’s dependence on Russian gas and bypasses a key EU ally, Ukraine. Nord Stream 2 is expected to double natural gas supplies from Russia to Germany, but it has divided European capitals and raised tensions between the…
Russia said Friday that its counter-terror forces had killed two militants and discovered a cache of weapons during a raid in the volatile region of Dagestan in the North Caucasus. The National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAK) told news agencies that two militants opened fire during a search operation in the Buinaksk region of the mountainous republic…
A Russian soldier was killed after his vehicle hit an explosive device in Syria, the Russian military said Thursday in a statement carried by state media. The Russian Defense Ministry said a roadside bomb detonated in the central province of Homs during a Russian military police reconnaissance on a humanitarian route. “A Russian serviceman traveling…
Russia’s military has kicked off Arctic drills to secure a key navigation route Thursday against the backdrop of major exercises held simultaneously in neighbor Belarus. Some 8,000 troops, 120 aircraft and 50 warships have been deployed across waters abutting the entire stretch of Russia’s vast northern coast, according to the Russian Armed Forces’ Northern Fleet.…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarus counterpart Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday agreed on a range of economic policies aimed at integrating the two ex-Soviet countries more closely. The pair said they had agreed on 28 programmes unifying their economies, but stopped short of discussing political integration — thought to be long sought by Moscow, but resisted…
Russia is gearing up for elections to the State Duma and regional and local legislatures on Sept. 19. Because voters in remote parts of the country are unable to make it to a polling center on election day, the government launched early voting on Aug. 29 to bring the ballot directly to them. One such…
Background RusKhimAlyans is implementing the project for the Gas Processing Complex (GPC) within the Complex for processing ethane-containing gas (CPECG) near the settlement of Ust-Luga. The GPC of the CPECG is an integrated complex for natural gas processing and liquefaction. The complex will have the biggest capacity in Russia and one of the largest in the world in terms of gas processing (45 billion cubic meters…
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it still needs more data on Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine before the jab can be authorized for use across the EU. The regulator said Thursday it was still in discussions with Russia over the data submitted to support its application, adding that the timeline for when the vaccine…
Russia’s Hermitage Museum, the largest art collection in the world, has announced it will sell several masterpieces, including a work of Leonardo da Vinci, in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFT). The St. Petersburg-based museum in partnership with the Binance NFT marketplace will run the auction until Sept. 7, the Hermitage said in a statement. …
On September 9, Alexey Likhachev, the Director General of State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, has paid a working visit to the construction site of the Belarusian NPP Unit 2 (Rosatom engineering division is the general designer and the general contractor of the project) was held. During the visit, Alexey Likhachev witnessed the progress of the…
The husband of a Russian beauty influencer has been jailed for 8 years on charges of murdering his wife, authorities said Thursday. Kristina Zhuravleva, 28, who boasted tens of thousands of Instagram followers, was found dead in the woods near Russia’s fourth-largest city of Yekaterinburg in April. Zhuravleva’s husband Dmitry Zhuravlev, who had reported her missing,…
Rosneft Oil Company’s research expedition organised as part of its corporate programme to preserve the biodiversity of Arctic ecosystems. has concluded.
RN-Yuganskneftegaz, Rosneft’s largest producing asset, released more than 3.3 million fish fry of valuable commercial species into the reservoirs of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District – Yugra over the past summer.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Polina Sidelnikova has voted in every Russian election since she was 18. This year is no different, even though she now lives in the United States. The forty-year-old human rights lawyer is one of thousands of Russians living outside their home country who will head to consulates and embassies between Sept. 17…
A smoke alarm sounded Thursday in Russia’s segment of the International Space Station (ISS) and astronauts smelled “burning” on board, Russia’s space agency and NASA said. The incident, which the Russian space agency Roscosmos said happened at 1:55 a.m. GMT ahead of a scheduled spacewalk, is the latest in a string of problems to spur…
A majority of Russians believe that their country is isolated on the world stage, according to an independent poll published Wednesday. Russia has made global headlines in recent years for its strained relations with the West over a litany of disagreements, from alleged election meddling and espionage to Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and the eastern…
Russia’s inflation rate accelerated to a new five-year high of 6.7% in August, the federal statistics service said Wednesday. The country has seen rapid price increases since the start of the year as the global economy recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, causing supply shortages and driving up costs of key materials. Economists had expected Russia’s…
September 9, 2021, Büyükeceli, Mersin Province, Turkey. – The second tier of the internal containment shell (ICS), which refers to the main components of the nuclear power plant’s safety system, was installed in the reactor building of the second power unit of Akkuyu NPP. ICS ensures protection of the reactor compartment and acts as support…
Dmitry Lobusov has spent more than half his life aboard giant vessels forging their way through the frozen waters of the Arctic Ocean. Russia is expanding its nuclear icebreaker fleet which Moscow hopes will secure its supremacy over the Arctic as climate change makes it more navigable. Video by AFP
Several dozen Russian news outlets have launched a campaign in support of independent journalism Wednesday amid mounting pressure on their profession in the run-up to next week’s parliamentary elections. The “There Are No Foreign Agents, There Are Journalists” campaign comes as Russian authorities target a growing number of media outlets and individual journalists with the…
Irina, a 34-year-old teacher in Moscow, had no intention of participating in upcoming elections for Russia’s State Duma because she didn’t consider any candidate worthy of her vote. That all changed when she got a message from her boss instructing her to register online for the ballot. “The management told me voting was part of…
A Chechen official has announced that the volatile North Caucasus region in Russia is offering thousands of dollars to the artist that completes the best portrait of its strongman, Ramzan Kadyrov. Kadyrov has ruled the predominantly Muslim region of Russia for nearly two decades, forming a cult around the family name and his father, Akhmat, who…
ROSATOM participates in the first pilot research exercises run by the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Affairs for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters (EMERCOM of Russia) “Safe Arctic” where it demonstrates operation of the mobile laser complex (MLC) for elimination of accident consequences. MLC has been designed by JSC…
Russian Emergency Situations Minister Yevgeny Zinichev, an ally and former bodyguard of President Vladimir Putin, has died at age 55 while trying to save a prominent filmmaker during strategic drills in the Arctic, the ministry said Wednesday. “We regret to inform you that Zinichev tragically died while performing official duties saving someone’s life during interdepartmental…
Pro-Kremlin state television host Dmitry Kiselyov has been hospitalized with the coronavirus, he told state media Tuesday. Kiselyov, 67, is the host of the weekly “Vesti Nedeli” (“News of the Week”) program, where he is known for trumpeting strong anti-Western, pro-Putin rhetoric. He has headed the state-owned Rossiya Segodnya news agency, which includes the RT…
NORTH POLE – A massive icebreaker cuts its way through the frozen waters of the Arctic Ocean, clearing a path to the North Pole, all white as far as the eye can see. But even here, the impact of climate change can be felt. Dmitry Lobusov has seen it. For 13 years he has captained…
Updated death toll at 10:00 a.m. on Sept. 9. Suspected gas explosions ripped through apartment blocks in two Russian cities early Wednesday, underscoring the persisting dangers of gas-equipped households. At least seven residents of a nine-story block were killed and 17 others were injured in the Moscow region town of Noginsk, authorities told state media. Emergency…
Russian media published an audio leak Tuesday that they say shows a ruling pro-Kremlin party official instructing poll watchers to ignore voter fraud at the upcoming election. The United Russia party, which was founded by President Vladimir Putin and consistently backs his initiatives, is seeking to maintain its lower-house majority in the Sept. 17-19 parliamentary elections…
Russia’s 2020 temperatures were a record 3.22 degrees Celsius above the historical average, according to a new draft report by Environment Ministry experts published on Tuesday. The spike represents the first time temperatures have been over 3 C higher than the norm since measurements began in 1936. Last year’s anomaly beat the previous record seen…
September 7, 2021, 16:50 A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Vladimir Semashko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Russian Federation, took place today in St. Petersburg. The parties discussed the state and prospects of energy cooperation, focusing in particular on the ongoing preparation of the gas transmission system in Belarus for its operation in the autumn/winter…
A prominent Russian defense lawyer involved in high-profile cases and himself facing criminal charges said Tuesday he has fled the country amid an ongoing exodus of opposition-leaning figures ahead of this month’s elections. Ivan Pavlov headed Team 29, a legal group that self-disbanded this summer after Russian authorities declared it an “undesirable” organization with foreign links, a…
Atomenergopromsbyt JSC (part of NovaWind JSC, Rosatom’s wind power unit) and with RENERA LLC (a power storage subsidiary of Rosatom’s TVEL Fuel Company) put into commercial operation the Commercial Dispatch system comprising an intelligent energy storage unit with a 300 kW capacity (300 kWh energy volume). The pilot project is accomplished at the site of…
On Sept. 7, 1812, some 300,000 French and Russian soldiers clashed in one of the biggest battles of the Napoleonic Wars: the Battle of Borodino. The battle on the fields of western Russia would prove to be a key moment in the war — for although French-led forces won the battle, they failed to secure…
JSC Atomenergoprom, the company that consolidates nuclear civil assets of State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom or ROSATOM, was awarded a score of 56/100 for its environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance by V.E, part of Moody’s ESG Solutions. The score, which is 12 points higher than its 2020 ESG Assessment, indicates a ‘Robust’ approach to…
Every year on September 7, International Clean Air Day is celebrated to raise public awareness of the impact on the atmosphere.
SARANSK, MORDOVIA — For barbershop owner Oleg Kechin, the first 18 months of the coronavirus pandemic were a breeze. After shutting for just four weeks last April, his Barabas chain has blossomed, opening new stores in nearby cities, a first franchise in the Moscow suburbs and taking on new staff. “Since that first month, everything’s…
Russia’s flagship airline Aeroflot has suspended several pilots for refusing to vaccinate against the coronavirus, the RBC news website reported Monday, citing a company spokesperson. At least six unvaccinated pilots were at various times sent on unpaid leave or vacation without pay, Aeroflot spokesman Mikhail Demin told the outlet. The pilots’ labor union complained to Aeroflot CEO…
A St. Petersburg court on Monday sentenced a Russian man to three years in a penal colony for hitting a police officer at a rally in support of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. According to the prosecutors, Ilya Pershin, a local artist, hit a policeman at least twice in the chest with his elbow and…
Russians are less likely to view economic protests as a possibility than they did at the start of the year despite being more willing to take part in such protests themselves, according to an independent poll published Monday. The decrease in protest expectations comes amid what Kremlin critics describe as a tightening clampdown on the…
Western media news websites are being hijacked by pro-Russian trolls to spread propaganda and disinformation supporting the Kremlin, according to research published by a British university on Monday. The Crime and Research Security Institute at Cardiff University said it had unearthed evidence from 32 major news outlets in 16 countries that have been targeted via…
Russia has banned Tajik-born opposition activist Saidanvar Sulaimonov from the country for 40 years in what he calls retaliation for his work on Kremlin critic Andrei Pivovarov’s campaign for this fall’s parliamentary election. “So my romance with Russia has ended. I’ve been kicked out for 40 years,” Sulaimonov, who also goes by Sasha Pechenka, tweeted…
Nyaganneftegaz, a subsidiary of Rosneft Oil Company, released about 1,200,000 fry of muksun and Siberian sturgeon into Reservoirs of the Tyumen Region and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra during the spring and summer period of 2021
The families of 298 people killed in the shooting down of flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014 demanded justice from Russia on Monday as they testified in the Dutch trial of four suspects. People who lost close relatives in the crash of the Malaysia Airlines plane said they could not truly say goodbye to their…
Ukraine has accused Russian security agents of detaining dozens of Crimean Tatars in what it called an ongoing crackdown on individuals who oppose Moscow’s annexation of Crimea. Federal Security Service (FSB) officers had initially detained five Crimean Tatars, including a senior member of the ethnic minority’s self-governing body, late last week, Ukrainian ombudswoman Lyudmila Denisova…
Russian authorities have blocked a website that promotes jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s anti-ruling party voting strategy in this month’s parliamentary elections. Senior Navalny aide Leonid Volkov said state internet regulator Roskomnadzor started blocking the website for the “Smart Voting” strategy that seeks to unseat pro-Kremlin ruling party incumbents by rallying support behind their most promising…
A court in Belarus sentenced one of the country’s most prominent opposition figures, Maria Kolesnikova, to 11 years in prison on Monday after she led unprecedented protests against President Alexander Lukashenko last year. A defiant Kolesnikova smiled and made her signature heart-shaped hand symbol during the court hearing in Minsk, where lawyer and fellow opposition…
VORONEZH — Retired collective farm workers Vitaly and Valentina Plotnikov, aged 81 and 74, have to grow most of their own food to get by on their combined 35,000 Rubles ($480) monthly pensions. But despite straightened circumstances common to many Russian retirees, they remain strong supporters of President Vladimir Putin. “We’ve lived through hard times…
An independent Russian investigative outlet that was banned as “undesirable” and its journalists labeled “foreign agents” has relaunched as a new entity, with an investigation into the alleged PR machine of the country’s defense chief. Proekt’s former chief editor Roman Badanin announced Monday that his new outlet is called “Agentstvo,” a play on the journalists’…
Voters in Russia’s second city St. Petersburg will face a confusing choice at the polls between opposition politician Boris Vishnevsky and two other candidates named Boris Vishnevsky who look very similar to him. Vishnevsky, a longtime Kremlin critic running for the local legislative assembly in the Sept. 19 vote, accuses authorities of running the two…
A delegation headed by Hardeep Puri, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs of India, visited the Zvezda shipbuilding yard located in the city of Bolshoy Kamen, Primorye Territory.
Tomato season is in full throttle, and I am in heaven. I’ve had tomatoes in every shape, color, and size for just about every meal last week. I’m happily pairing tomatoes with everything from corn to pasta, buckwheat, sausages, eggs, and, of course, cheese. Cheese and tomatoes are a match made in heaven, no matter…
Ukraine has accused Russia of trying to ramp up military support for separatists after Moscow refused to extend the mandate of international observers stationed on the border between the two countries. Hundreds of OSCE monitors have been involved in two long-running missions in the areas where Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists began fighting in 2014.…
Russia has named four more media outlets as “foreign agents” amid what critics call a widening clampdown on independent journalism. “On Sept. 3, the Justice Ministry of Russia entered the following legal entities into the register of foreign media performing the functions of a foreign agent: Altair 2021 LLC, Vega 2021 LLC, Editor-in-Chief 2021 LLC…
Vladivostok, 3 September 2021 – FESCO Transportation Group and ROSATOM-subsidiary JSC Atomenergoprom plan to create a transport and logistics hub on the territory of Commercial Port of Vladivostok PJSC (a part of FESCO) in the framework of ROSATOM’s project to support Eurasian container cargo transit. A corresponding cooperation agreement was signed by FESCO’s Chairman of…
On September 3, 2021, an expanded meeting of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) Public Council was held on the sidelines of the VI Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. The roundtable in the Marine Hall of the Far Eastern Federal University gathered more than 100 experts, business people, and academics from Russia, Japan, China, Norway, Finland,…
The leader of a Russian ultra-nationalist hate group has been arrested, one of the group’s administrators wrote on its Telegram channel. Vladislav Pozdnyakov, founder of the “Male State” — an anti-women, anti-liberal social media group — launched a campaign of threats and abuse against a sushi company last week for running an advert featuring a…
Chekhov’s Dachshunds On Sunday from noon to 3 p.m., the Anton Chekhov estate of Melikhovo is holding its 15th annual dachshund festival. Why? Because Anton Chekhov was one of the first owners of dachshunds in Russia. He got a pair of them from his friend and editor, Nikolai Leikin. They were named by Chekhov’s sister,…