The State company Rosmorport is holding a competitive tender for construction of an ice-breaker at a price of 260 million USD. The bidders are United Shipbuilding Corporation, Baltiysky Zavod and Nordic Yard shipyards. The winner may get a contract for construction of 2 more similar vessels.
The two state-controlled companies Gazprom and Rosneft have submitted 43 bids for offshore field licenses, among them to the Yuzhno-Russkoye field in the Barents Sea.
Six companies wanted to participate in the upcoming tender to the Titov and Trebs oil fields in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. But only two of them were allowed by the Ministry of Natural Resources to participate.
The Tu-154 aircraft that crash-landed at a closed-downed airfield in the Republic of Komi earlier in September might try to take off again from the far-to-short runway.
A total of 41 companies have applied for production licenses in northern Norwegian waters as part of this year’s Awards in Predifined Areas. No Russian companies are among the applicants.
Raging forest fires in central Russia, Siberia and western Canada have created an enormous cloud of pollutants covering the northern hemisphere, according to NASA.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in a recent government session directed harsh criticism against the Russian Customs, saying that the body does not meet quality standards and that it will undergo major modernization.
Russian military has once again postponed the test launch of the ill-fated Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a navy source says. The first test launch since the development program was halted in December 2009 was to take place this week.
The new Russian police reform not only proposes to rename the police forces, but also to transfer all financing of the forces to the federal level of power.
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 EU’s foreign ministers on Monday gave their green light for the start of membership negotiations with Iceland. An inclusion of the North Atlantic island in the Union would strengthen the position of Brussels in the Arctic.
