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Friday, 25 January 2013 20:05 |
RIA Novosti / Boris Babanov Gazprom Neft, oil arm of the energy giant Gazprom, is drilling for shale oil in Western Siberia. Realization of the shale oil project is believed to breathe new life into oil development as traditional deposits have been showing signs of dwindling. Gazprom Neft has started exploration of Bazhenov formation that ... |
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Friday, 25 January 2013 12:23 |
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Yury Dolgoruky, the "Long-Armed" (1099-1157), was a Russian prince from the Rurik dynasty, who founded Moscow. He reigned as Grand Prince of Kiev from 1149 to 1151 and again from 1155 to 1157. A statue in the Russian capital shows him sitting on his battle-horse, clad in armour.... |
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Thursday, 24 January 2013 10:59 |
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Russia will respond to unfriendly moves made by the United States, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated on Wednesday. He noted that "our relations with the United States are a complicated issue." Issues in the relations between Russia and the U.S. are much more obvious than, for example, issues between Russia and the EU... |
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Wednesday, 23 January 2013 08:59 |
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The largest in post-Soviet history exercises of the Russian Navy started in the Black and Mediterranean seas. The naval exercises that the Russian Navy has not conducted for a long time, have a number of features associated with the situation at the borders of Russia and its allies, as well as the situation in the Middle East and North Africa... |
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Tuesday, 22 January 2013 18:10 |
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Russian nuclear energy demonstrated impressive achievements in the global market "of nuclear services" in 2012. In this area, Rosatom State Corporation wins competition with major Western companies, even though cooperation in the field of "peaceful atom" remains under strong political pressure... |
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Monday, 21 January 2013 19:17 |
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Government says two planes will fly to Beirut to bring home more than 100 Russians The Russian government has said it is sending two planes to Lebanon to evacuate Russians from Syria, the first such effort since the uprising against Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011. The emergency situations ministry said two of its planes would fly to Beirut on... |
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Monday, 21 January 2013 16:58 |
Youths, including public art and music school pupils, perform outside the Finance ministry in central Athens against budget cuts which affect the transportation to their schools (AFP Photo / Louisa Gouliamaki) Russia cannot afford to rescue European countries suffering from the debt crisis, without first thinking about its domestic needs, says the... |
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Monday, 21 January 2013 15:09 |
A woman passes the congress center on January 21, 2013 at the Swiss resort of Davos (AFP Photo / Johannes Eisele) The annual World Economic Forum meeting is due to kick off on January 23. Apart from resilient dynamism, this year’s agenda is going to cover a wide range of other burning topics. The cosy Swiss ski resort of Davos will host the Forum ... |
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Monday, 21 January 2013 13:54 |
AFP Photo / Viktor Drachev Cold weather in Europe has caused this season’s record-high spot prices for gas, crossing the $400 mark. But even this does not make stable but higher long-term contract prices more attractive to European customers. Over the weekend extreme weather has swept across Europe from the UK to Spain, claiming lives and causing... |
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Monday, 21 January 2013 11:45 |
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At the beginning of 2012, President Vladimir Putin visited the naval base of the Northern Fleet in Severomorsk, to present the Order of Nakhimov to Russia's nuclear-powered missile cruiser, Pyotr Veliky. The Order was given for "bravery, dedication and professionalism shown by the ship's crews on their missions," the President's website... |
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