Gazprom reduces greenhouse gas emissions in 2019

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June 10, 2020, 16:00 – Savings of energy sources achieved in parallel with growth in gas production. – Greenhouse gas emissions reduced by 3.52 million tons of СО2 equivalent in 2019. Gazprom took stock of its environmental activities in the year 2019 as presented in the Environmental Report published on the Company’s website. Last year, Gazprom achieved all of its Corporate Environmental Targets. The Company saved 3.3 billion cubic meters…

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The second piece of the melt trap – the cantilever truss – has been installed at its final position at the Kursk NPP-2 construction site

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The cantilever truss, the second piece of the ‘melt trap’, with the weight of 145 tons and the diameter of over 9 meters, has been installed at its final position, under the reactor vault, at the Kursk NPP-2 second power block. That said, one of the governmental assignments for 2020 has been completed. ‘We continue…

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Kadyrov Donates Millions to Help Chechen Grooms ‘Buy’ 200 Brides

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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has announced plans to donate 10.3 million rubles ($131,500) to help men cash-strapped by the coronavirus pandemic “buy” brides under Islamic law. The families of 207 grooms in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Chechnya would each receive 50,000 rubles ($635) for their sons to get married in accordance with traditional Islamic practices,…

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Northern Russian Province Dumps Controversial Moscow Trash Landfill

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Authorities in northern Russia have pulled their support for a controversial landfill after two years of nationwide protests against shipping Moscow’s waste to remote regions, though experts and activists warn it’s too early to declare victory. The Arkhangelsk region’s administration said Tuesday it has unilaterally terminated its deal with the contractor building the Shiyes landfill…

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Russia’s Arctic City of Murmansk Opens Coronavirus Hospital Constructed in 2 Weeks

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The city of Murmansk in Russia’s Arctic has opened a new coronavirus field hospital two weeks after breaking ground on construction. Nowhere in the country has a hospital been erected as quickly, regional authorities say. The 10,000-square-meter hospital in Murmashi, about 15 kilometers south of Murmansk, has 700 beds for coronavirus patients. It consists of…

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Changeover of shift personnel takes place at Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy

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News from projects and regions June 8, 2020, 20:00 The first stage of shift personnel changeover at Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy is completed. From June 4 to 7, more than 200 people started their work at remote gas and gas condensate production sites after a two-week medical observation period at the places of temporary accommodation.<o:p> This was preceded by an extended and mandatory rotational leave coupled…

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Russian TV Channel Appears to Add Footage of US Unrest to Film

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Channel One devoted Sunday evening to airing director Alexei Balabanov’s movies “Brat” and “Brat 2” (“Brother” and “Brother 2”) on the twentieth anniversary of the second film’s release. The home audience across the country was, however, puzzled by new footage showing unrest across the United States in place of the final film credits.  While the famous”Nautilus Pompilius” song…

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Key contracts signed as part of project for setting up Complex for processing ethane-containing gas near Ust-Luga

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June 8, 2020, 17:30 – Supply contracts signed for feed gas and sales gas, as well as ethane fraction. – EPC contract signed for gas processing and off-site facilities within integrated complex. A number of key contracts were signed today in St. Petersburg as part of the project for the creation of the Complex for processing ethane-containing gas (including an integrated complex for natural gas processing and liquefaction,…

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Russian Journalist Ilya Azar Released After 10 Days in Jail

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Russian journalist and activist Ilya Azar was released Sunday after ten days in detention, his punishment for standing on a solo picket protest. President Vladimir Putin’s government has cracked down on opposition demonstrations, and single-person protests are the only kind allowed without prior permission from the authorities. A court sentenced the 35-year-old journalist and municipal…

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‘Soviet Signs and Street Relics’

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Photographer Jason Guilbeau, who was born in Niort, France and now lives in Strasbourg, is known for his landscapes of Switzerland, Germany and Eastern Europe, in particular the relationship between form and landscape. In “Soviet Signs and Street Relics” he has taken Google Street View images of the sculptural signs so familiar to anyone who…

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Gazprom’s project finance deal for Amur GPP receives international awards

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Background On December 23, 2019, Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk and Gazprom completed the signing of project finance documentation for the construction of the Amur GPP. The funds are provided by 22 European, Asian and Russian banks. This deal is unprecedented in Gazprom’s history and is among the largest in Europe over the last few years. TXF and Proximo are information agencies that specialize in publishing news,…

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Russian ‘Terrorists’ Training German Neo-Nazi Youth in Combat – Reports

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Young right-wing extremists from Germany are receiving combat training from Russian white supremacists whom the United States has blacklisted as terrorists, Germany’s Focus news magazine reported Friday. The U.S. State Department branded the Russian Imperial Movement as a foreign terrorist organization in April, saying it runs two paramilitary training camps in St. Petersburg that have…

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