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How ESPRIT Helps Green Tools Produce First-class Tools
Founded in St. Petersburg in 2001 as a tool distributor, Green Tools is now a major force in the manufacture of cutting tools, providing circular saws and other woodcutting machines for the sawmill, furniture, and woodworking industries throughout... Read more
Trials show nanotube-reinforced asphalt concrete prevents road cracks
Trials of the world’s first experimental section of road pavement with graphene nanotubes have demonstrated a 67% increase in resistance to rutting and cracking. The next step in the industrial application of the technology is designing a road... Read more
TurkStream begins pumping gas to Europe
Russia's has begun sending gas to Europe via Turkey through its TurkStream pipeline according to a statement by Bulgaria's Bulgartransgaz... Read more
Nord Stream 2 "past the point of no return"
Last week the US Congress passed the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) - which not only increased the Pentagon's budget by $22-billion (€19.7-billion), but also threatened to place sanctions on Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and... Read more
US pushes for Nord Stream 2 sanctions
An agreement has been reached between the US House and the Senate armed services committee on a defence bill that would push the Trump White House to place sanctions on companies that are working with Gazprom, Russia's state-owned gas company... Read more
Serbian section of TurkStream 90% laid says Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that 90% of the pipes of state-owned Gazprom's southern venture, the TurkStream pipeline, have been laid, preparing the way for the transit of natural gas into Europe. Read more
Bulgaria will be entirely gas independent from Russia by 2020
The Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borissov, has claimed that his country will achieve gas independence from Russia by next year. Mr Borissov made the claim earlier this week on an official trip to inspect the progress of the construction of the... Read more
Engie fined by Polish regulator over Nord Stream 2
French energy group ENGIE has been fined by Poland's anti-monopoly watchdog, UOKiK, in relation to an investigation into the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline... Read more
Russia expects TurkStream extensions completed in 2020
Russia expects the construction of an extension of Gazprom's TurkStream pipeline for transit of natural gas to Europe from Turkey via Bulgaria and Serbia to be completed by the end of 2020, president Vladimir Putin has said... Read more
Russian PM reiterates support for Serbia ahead of Eurasian free trade deal
During a visit to Belgrade over the weekend, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has reconfirmed his support for Serbia and announced that there would be a free trade deal between the country and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU)... Read more
Gazprom Neft pushes for privatisation of Serbia's HIP Petrohemija
Russia's Gazprom Neft, a major oil-producing subsidiary of state-owned Gazprom, has shown interest in the acquisition of HIP Petrohemija, Serbia's state-owned petrochemicals producer, chairman Alexander Dyukov has announced, as reported by Seenews... Read more
Italy's Enel to build Russia's largest wind farm
As ice-cold autumn storms gathered force in the far northern Russian region, a company of Russian and Italian businessmen and state officials exchanged handshakes inside a marquee erected on desolate lands about 80 km northeast of Murmansk, on the... Read more
Nord Stream 2 opens arbitration claim over new EU gas rules
The Russian-owned Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline filed a notice on Thursday (26 September), requesting that a tribunal of independent arbiters be assembled to determine where the European Union is in breach of its own obligations under the Energy... Read more
Europe will be "invaded by a thousand robots" from Russia
Europe will soon find itself being "invaded by robots", said Russian autonomous service robot manufacturer Promobot in a press release. The attention-grabbing headline is referring to a major contract that the firm has signed with Swiss company... Read more
Bulgaria signs Saudi group Arkad for €1.1bn TurkStream extension
Bulgaria's state-owned gas provider, Bulgartransgaz EAD, has awarded a €1.1-billion contract to Saudi-led group Arkad to construct an extension to the TurkStream gas pipeline, which will carry Russian natural gas into Europe... Read more
Sweden's Midsummer signs agreement with Russian tech giant Rusnano
Swedish solar energy technology firm Midsummer has signed a Frame Agreement with the Russian state-owned tech company Rusnano Group and its Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs... Read more
EU LNG tanks 90% full as competition drives down prices
The concern about having enough energy to get its population through the winter has become an annual cause for alarm in the EU, given that the bloc has to import most of its energy. This winter, however, looks set to be different... Read more
'Chernobyl on Ice' makes maiden voyage into the Arctic
The world's first floating nuclear reactor power station, the Akademik Lomonosov, has set sail on its maiden voyage from the port of Murmansk, in northern Russia. The vessel is to bring energy to settlements and companies involved in the... Read more
TurkStream second leg to go via Bulgaria, not Greece
The Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak has said that the second leg of the TurkStream pipeline will go through Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary... Read more
Ukraine gas transit talks expected to resume soon
Talks between Ukraine's state-owned Naftogaz and Russia's state-owned Gazprom over gas transit and supplies between the two countries are expected to commence in the near future, Andrei Gerus, a representative of the Ukrainian President, has said... Read more
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Putin & Erdogan at TurkStream project
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Nord Stream 2 "past the point of no return"
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Putin and Orban
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Russian PM reiterates support for Serbia ahead of Eurasian free deal
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Gazprom chair Alexander Dyukov
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Italy's Enel to build Russia's largest wind farm
