As of September 8, Russian agrarians continued harvesting grains and pulses. Agrarians harvested grain crops throughout the general areas of 36.1 million ha (on the same date in 2015 – 30.8 million ha), or 76.3% of the planned areas (47.3 million ha). The produced volumes reached 98.6 million tons of grains, with the average yield…
Russia is currently developing a plane with a new-generation laser weapon, a source in the Russian defense and industrial sector reported. “Work on a new-generation airborne laser weapon is currently under way”, the source said. According to the source, the talk is about a plane called A-60 by open sources. Media outlets reported earlier that…
The Russian government is planning to reinstate import duties on select foreign-built passenger aircraft. Russia originally suspended duties on foreign-built 50- to 300-seater aircraft back in 2010 so as to allow Russian carriers to accelerate their fleet expansion rates. The current measure, rolled over in 2013, is due to expire on December 31, and while…
The Russian Industry and Trade Ministry is considering performing maintenance works on Antonov jets produced in Ukraine locally, the ministry said. It said that the Ukrainian manufacturer did not fulfill its obligation to maintain the flight capacity of the aircraft. “In spite of statements by Antonov regarding support of the type certificates, practical efforts concerning…
Russian propulsion engineering firm Energomash is open to contracts to build partially reusable launch vehicles, the company’s chief executive Igor Arbuzov said. “If a real customer turns up who will need a carrier rocket with a reusable stage – we will make one”, Arbuzov said. He added there had been no contracts for rocket stages…
Russian oil pipeline monopoly Transneft has received instructions of the Central Energy Customs to suspend oil product supplies to Ukraine, Igor Dyomin, advisor to the company’s president, said. “To ensure the Russian legislation in the sphere of export control we were asked to stop transportation of oil products to Ukraine”, he said. In early 2016…
In January-August the seaports of Krasnodar Krai (Yeysk, Kavkaz, Novorossiysk, Temryuk, Taman and Tuapse) exported 722 vessels with grain and its by-products, at the volume of 11.807 million tons, the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) declared. In the reporting period the seaports of Krasnodar Krai shipped grain cargoes to 54 countries. In…