The husband and wife owners of Siberia Airlines have put their stake in the company up for sale, a source in the airline industry told Interfax. He said Vladislav and Natalya Filev mandated financial institutions to sell their shares. "Unofficial offers were made to Aeroflot and...

A tourist from Japan has been found murdered in the Zabaikalsky region in Siberia, investigators said Wednesday. The 31-year-old tourist, whose identity was not immediately revealed, was traveling around Russia on his Suzuki motorbike. He set up a tent on the side of a road near the village of Zhipkhegen when he was attacked...

A tractor in the Siberian region of Tomsk slammed into a bus stop on a rural road, killing one person instantly and sending two others to the hospital, where they later died, police said in a statement on their website Wednesday. A tractor in the Siberian region of Tomsk slammed into a bus stop on a rural road, killing one person instantly and sending two others to the hospital, where they later died, police said in a statement Wednesday. The accident occurred in a rural area near a neighborhood...

A Japanese diplomat will travel to Chita on Thursday from the Khabarovsk consulate in response to the murder of a Japanese tourist who was traveling across Russia on a motorcycle. A Japanese diplomat will travel to Chita on Thursday from the Khabarovsk consulate in response to the murder of a Japanese tourist who was traveling across Russia on a motorcycle. The body of 31-year-old Kaiti Okhnita was found Tuesday less than a kilometer from the main highway outside of the Siberian city of Chita on...

A Siberian man got stuck in a trash chute while trying to hide from his girlfriend, the regional branch of the Emergency Situations Ministry in Tyumen said in a report on their site Thursday. A Siberian man got stuck in a trash chute while trying to hide from his girlfriend, the regional branch of the Emergency Situations Ministry in Tyumen said in a report on their site Thursday. Rescuers arrived at a residential building on Ulitsa 30 Let Pobedi to find a 31-year-old man stuck in the trash chute...

One of the oldest cities in Siberia, Krasnoyarsk boasts sights like picturesque churches and fountains with dazzling night lighting. But none of them can compare to its main attraction — majestic Siberian nature. Krasnoyarsk Population: 990,600, according to the...

... Aluminum, a joint venture between RusAl and Norinco, Basic Element said in a statement on Saturday. RusAl will also consider an option to buy Norinco-made anode production equipment for its Taishet aluminum smelter that is under construction in eastern Siberia, the statement said. The announcement coincides with a visit to Russia by Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, who is expected to succeed Wen Jiabao as premier early next year. "Basic Element and Norinco plan to boost the value of their …...

... disclose the size or price of the stake Friday. Sources said last year that Zapadnaya wanted to raise about $70 million during an initial public offering that would have valued the firm at about $200 million. The company has three major assets in Eastern Siberia — two producing mines and one advanced-stage development project. (Reuters)

... introduce measures, including tax relief, for unconventional oil output in the world's largest crude-producing country. Russia is trying to offset output decline at its depleted western Siberian oil fields by making forays into new riches in eastern Siberia and the Arctic. The decision to hand out support for the tight oil follows similar steps to facilitate offshore oil and gas production in Russia. Putin said the mineral extraction tax — the single biggest tax item — for tight oil production will...

... "This is strongly positive for the company and the sector overall." Last month a senior Russian official questioned the company's dividend policy, saying it was underinvesting in its pipeline infrastructure, which resulted in oil spills in Siberia. (Reuters)

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... conference Friday that 20 billion rubles ($640 million) would be needed to clean up three of the country's most sensitive environmental "hot spots" — the Arctic archipelagoes of Franz Josef Land and Wrangel Island and Lake Baikal in Siberia. A broader clean-up plan addressing 194 separate sites identified by the ministry has yet to be approved, Trutnev said, the RBK Daily reported. 417712 179742

... subsidy of 40 billion rubles ($1.37 billion) in compensation. Railways will require 5 trillion rubles to modernize in the next decade, Putin said. One of the priorities is to expand access to ports by rail and expand the rail network in the Far East and Siberia, he said. The Trans-Siberian and Baikal-Amur railroads are operating at the limits of their capacity, Putin said. That restrains many development projects in the area, he said. "Russian business is forced to postpone interesting ideas and...

... British-based Pig Improvement Company, which markets the genetic strengthening of pig breeds, as one example of a British-Russian success story. The firm originated in Oxfordshire in the 1960s and started out in Russia by shipping pigs from Poland to Siberia. "They're a fine example of commitment to the market, determination, integration, and they're doing quite well," Thompson said. "The trick is getting your feet on the ground in the regions so you can find your niche fast and get...

... clearly be responsible for operational issues pertaining to developing the sector. Massive amounts of investment are needed and deals galore will have to be cut with foreigners to develop the Artic, the Barents Sea gas deposits and to open up eastern Siberia. On the other hand Novak is not an oil man and comes to the job from the Finance Ministry, where he worked under Mr. Prudence, former minister Alexei Kudrin. Together with Dvorkovich's interest and academic qualifications in economics, it seems...

... Yaroslavl and Tolyatti, and activists are flexing the opposition's muscle with a headline-grabbing challenge to the results of a disputed mayoral election in Astrakhan. Varlamov, a Moscow resident, pledged to turn Omsk, a city of 1.1 million in the heart of Siberia, into a model Russian city with international standards of urban planning. He often criticizes the government on his blog, particularly with regard to architecture and urban planning, and in December he joined a handful of oppositional public...

... have signed a buy-sell agreement with Gazprom," Jiang said, singling out the deal among successful ventures, including a loans-for-oil deal, under which China receives 300,000 barrels per day via a dedicated pipeline, and joint oil exploration in Siberia. Under the terms of the gas deal, which was nearly finalized last year, Russia would sell up to 68 billion cubic meters of pipeline gas per year to China, more gas than it ships to any single European customer. The two countries had agreed on...

... Russian Technologies. Lada sales fell 15 percent year on year in the last quarter, and AvtoVAZ is recalling nearly 100,000 new Ladas because of technical faults, including 70,000 Lada Kalinas, a model Putin promoted by driving it 2,000 kilometers across Siberia in 2010. Putin also tried to promote the new Lada Granta last year but took several attempts to start it when he test-drove it. The decline in the national car industry is all the more galling for domestic producers as Russia is on track to become...

... enough," said Andrei, a deputy captain of a unit who makes about $1,000 per month. "Muscovites don't want to work, and we are suffering from a lack of staff." He was echoed by Yelena, an Emergency Situations Ministry employee in East Siberia, who said local firefighters earn 15,000 rubles to 18,000 rubles per month and many are calling it quits. "The salary is not sufficient for a job like this, so the rate of personnel turnover is high," she said. Firefighting officials...

... (annual turnover is currently 22.7 million tons), open a new car terminal with a capacity of 250,000 cars per year and invest about 52.5 billion rubles in rail links. By 2018 they even plan to construct a new freight airport for transferring cargo to Siberia and the Far East. Ust-Luga also hosts the terminal of the 1,100-kilometer Baltic Pipeline System 2, or BPS-2, built by Transneft as an alternative route to European markets after a trade dispute interrupted supplies through the Druzhba pipeline...