The first Barents Hockey League matches in history were played in in Ivalo, Finland this weekend. Barents Hockey League gathers ice hockey teams from Norway, Russia and Finland in the first cross border sports league in Barents.
The Northern Fleet Udaloy-class destroyer “Vitse-admiral Kulakov” has started sea trials in the Baltic Sea, after being in overhaul for nearly 20 years.
As European demands on Russian gas drop, monopoly exporter Gazprom seeks to compensate the lower revenues with boosting prices on domestic sales. That however will have consequences for Russian industry, as well as for Russian households.
Norwegian F-16 fighter jets have so far in 2010 been scrambled to meet Russian military aircrafts 21 times. If the trend continues, less Russian aircrafts will be identified this year compared to 2009.
The two semi-submersible drilling rigs originally planned for the Shtokman project in the Barents Sea will soon start drilling off Sakhalin in Russia’s Far East.
Russian Minister of Transport, Igor Levitin, has been chosen leader of the Murmansk Transport Hub, the management company which is to be responsible for infrastructure development in Murmansk Oblast.
European leaders have a long ‘to-do’ list for the new Russian President Dmitrii Medvedev. On top of the agenda are negotiations over a new EU-Russia partnership agreement.
When he visited the Yamal Peninsula in late February, Gazproms deputy CEO, underlined that the development of the Bovanekovskoe field is on schedule. The huge field one of Gazproms top priorities will be in production from year 2011, Mr. Aleksandr Ananenkov stressed.
The Russian Federal Industry Agency (Rosprom) has been assigned with the elaboration of a rescue plan for the Sevmash plant in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast. The new plan could help Russias biggest and most important mechanical plant in the north overcome its current crisis.
