UTair Aviation announces the launch of new routes from St. Petersburg to Munich, Samara and Mineralnye Vody. Flights from St. Petersburg to Munich will start on October 30, from Pulkovo International Airport on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Departures from St. Petersburg are scheduled at 15:30 and departures from Munich at 17:10, all times local. Munich…
Diamond output of Russian uncut diamond mining giant Alrosa fell by 6% YoY to 27.9 million carats in January-September due to lower output, the company said in a statement. Less sands from alluvial deposits were processed at the Nurba plant because of adjustment of the 2016 production plan; less ore was produced at the Aikhal…
Governor of the Bashkortostan republic Rustem Khamitov has accepted the position of the board of directors deputy chairman of oil company Bashneft, located in the republic, Igor Sechin, CEO of Russian oil major Rosneft, which has recently bought half of Bashneft, said. “I have turned to Rustem Khamitov with a request to enter the new…
Customs control measures undertaken by the Baltic Customs have uncovered a scheme used to take marine bunker fuel stated as stores outside the territory of the Eurasian Economic Union without payment of customs dues. According to the press center of the Baltic Customs, over 12,000 tons of fuel was exported through the scheme. According to…
As of October 1, the general production of spring grains and pulses in Russian agricultural organizations reached 110.6 million tons in bunker weight, up by 16.2% YoY, the Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation (Rosstat) announced. According to the announcement, the agricultural organizations, which concentrated 67.9% of the whole planted areas under grains…
60 cruise ships were serviced at the embankments of Saint-Petersburg in the navigation season of 2016. Those vessels brought to the city 26,000 cruise passengers, Andrei Mushkarev, Chairman of Saint-Petersburg Committee for Tourism Development, reported. According to him, FSUE Rosmorport is planning to reconstruct the landing stages at Angliyskaya and Lieutenant Shmidt embankments. (Portnews/Business World…
Russian car producer AvtoVAZ has partially reintroduced a four-day workweek on its facilities because of a continuing decline of the car market, a spokesman for the company reported. “AvtoVAZ has again shifted to a four-day workweek. The B0 platform assembling Lada Largus, XRay and the Renault-Nissan class cars still works under a five-day schedule. The…