A group of activists detained before a May 6th opposition rally remain imprisoned. The group includes Oleg Kozlovsky, the leader of the Oborona (Defense) Movement.

The total transport services in the first quarter of this year increased by 26 percent compared with the same period last year and amounted to more than 13 billion rubles, reported in the department of industry and transport of Primorye

The possible change of ownership of the license to explore West Kamchatka offshore fields should not affect Rosneft's Korean partner KNOC, RBC Daily wrote today citing a source at Gazprom. Meanwhile, South Korea has already assigned $270m to bore two

Igor Sechin to take charge of Russia’s industry Vladimir Putin has announced the composition of the new RF Government. The former presidential aid Igor Shuvalov and former prime minister Viktor Zubkov have been appointed first vice premiers. The former head

President of OJSC "NK "LUKOIL" Vagit Alekperov said in an interview to Vedomosti daily, "Unfortunately, today we and our colleagues including those from oil-richest countries face another problem such as sharp increase in prices for equipment and services. We have

On May 20, the Moscow hotel of Radisson Slavyanskaya will host the international conference "Oil and Gas Equipment Standardization" (STANDARTNEFTEGAZ-2008). The conference will focus on modernization and harmonization of oil and gas industry standards development processes. The conference will also

The state standard GOST R 1.2.023-1.027.08 "Development of gas and gas condensate fields. Technical requirements for development processes" will be developed by LLC "VNIIGAZ" in 2009. The work is not financed from the federal budget. Experts say, development of this

The former president of CJSC "Atomstroyexport", Sergey Shmatko has been appointed energy minister of the Russian Federation. In recent years, CJSC "Atomstroyexport" has made substantial progress in promotion of Russian nuclear technologies to international markets. The major player of Russia’s

S.N. Safe&Software presented two new products for intelligent network and server protection at Infosecurity London 2008: Safen'Sec Enterprise Pro in English and SafenSec Enterprise Server Edition.Infosecurity London 2008 was held in the "Earls Court Exhibition Centre", Grand Hall, Olympia, London

MOSCOW, May 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown agreed during a phone conversation Sunday on preparing a bilateral meeting at the G8 summit in Japan, the Kremlin press office said. "Agreement was