A Russian cargo ship loaded with weapons is en route to Syria and was due to arrive at a Syrian port over the weekend, Al Arabiya television said in a report that Western diplomats in New York described as credible. UNITED NATIONS — A Russian cargo ship loaded with weapons is en route to Syria and was due to arrive at a Syrian...

... will pay nearly $30 toward the cost of every ton of grain delivered to the Black Sea for the rest of this season to help push exports toward a record 13 million tons, the country's agriculture minister said. Kazakhstan is investing in new elevators, ports and railroads to supply Iran and its Central Asian neighbors, but will also encourage farmers to cultivate more feed grains, maize and oilseeds to avoid an oversupply of wheat in the future, Asylzhan Mamytbekov said. "Our traditional markets...

... role of acting as the main legislative framework for PPP projects in Russia. The Concessions Law applies to most types of infrastructure, including, inter alia, roads and roadside service facilities, public transport, railways, pipelines, sea and river ports, airports, hydraulic structures, public utilities, as well as medical, educational, cultural, sports and tourism facilities. However, prior to the latest changes, widespread use of the Concessions Law was impeded due to the fact that it did not...

... causing stress to the environment and risk of ecological disaster. More than three centuries after Peter the Great gave Russia access to the world by founding St. Petersburg as a "window onto Europe" at the head of the Gulf of Finland, area ports handle more than one-third of all oil exports and more than half of the country's container cargo turnover. Sea traffic is growing at about 5 percent per year — leading to a boom in onshore infrastructure development, corresponding stress...

Russia is betting on a gambling and entertainment zone near its eastern port city of Vladivostok to lure investors who have spent big bucks on casinos that cater to Asian gamblers in the likes of Macau and Singapore, in particular cash-flush Chinese. MACAU — Russia is betting...

... to heliski, descending as many as eight different peaks in a single day. Major Businesses Akros (43 Shturmana Yelagina Ulitsa; +7 4152-24-37-17; akros.ru ) is one of the three largest fishing companies in Russia. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Trade Sea Port (+7 4152-43-41-00; port.kamchatka.ru ) is centrally located and open year-round. Kamchatgazprom (19 Pogranichnaya Ulitsa; +7 4152-41-00-94; gazprom.kamchatka.ru ), the local branch of energy giant Gazprom, extracts oil and gas throughout the Kamchatka...

International sanctions have failed to halt trade in Russian coal at Syrian ports, with buyers switching to the euro from the dollar in deals facilitated by the Syrian state bank and black-market players. International sanctions have failed to halt trade in Russian coal at Syrian ports, with buyers...

... we can't use our farming equipment, for example. We've lost our livelihood," said Melhem, a farmer from Hasakeh. As many as nine cargoes of gas oil were delivered per month this year according to data from a shipper — mainly from Russian ports — but also from political allies Iran and Venezuela. Average cargoes contain about 30,000 tons of fuel. However, in the past four weeks, not one shipment of gas oil has reached Syria's oil ports Banias and Tartus, according to industry sources...

... location for viewing the northern lights are all points of pride for Murmansk residents. Despite the cold, this Arctic seaport amazingly remains ice-free all year long due to the warming effects of the North Atlantic Current, making it an important trade port on the eastern part of the Kola Peninsula. Shipping and fishing are the largest industries in the city, which trades extensively with neighboring Norway and Finland. Founded in 1916, Murmansk was officially the last city created under the Russian...

... After the anti-poaching deal with neighboring China and Japan takes effect around the end of this year, only legally caught crab will be exported, Krainy said. The fisheries agency chief said not a single poaching ship was registered in South Korean ports in recent months following the enactment of a similar agreement with South Korea. Krainy also said Tuesday that fish deliveries will continue this summer via the Northern Sea Route, also known as the Northeast Passage, in Arctic waters above Russia's...

... "It is certainly an attempt by the authorities to save face and also demonstrate their force, while trying at the same time not to escalate tension any further in that region," he said. The Mangistau Regional Court, located in the Caspian Sea port of Aktau in western Kazakhstan, said in a statement that four people were jailed for between four to seven years each for taking part in the violence in Shetpe. A fifth defendant was given a suspended three-year sentence and a sixth was released...

... the 240-meter-high pylons of Zolotoy Rog Bridge over Zolotoy Rog Bay in downtown Vladivostok on Tuesday. "The weather isn't very good. The temperature is 4-5 degrees," Raskalov wrote on his Vkontakte page above bird's-eye photos of the gray port city. "Tomorrow at dawn the bridge over Russky Island. Height: 320 meters." On Wednesday, he and his friends scaled Russky Island Bridge, which crosses the Eastern Bosphorus Strait to connect the mainland with Russky Island, site of the...

... of that GDP on infrastructure, as is being done in Central and Eastern Europe. Of this, more than 50 percent of the investment should go to creating new infrastructure and maintaining what it already has. Russia has managed to maintain its railroads, ports and existing airports, although development of civil aviation in the regions remains weak. But roads are the area in greatest need of investment, according to the analysis. In the World Economic Forum’s competitive rating, Russia gets 130th...

The bottom half of what will be Russia’s biggest ice-resistant drilling platform looked like a gigantic upside-down table. VOSTOCHNY PORT, Primorye Region — The bottom half of what will be Russia’s biggest ice-resistant drilling platform looked like a gigantic upside-down table. The 52,000 cubic meters of concrete and 27,000 tons of steel mark the beginning of the third...

... Skolkovo, focusing on the aviation industry. But critics question Alexanyan’s intentions, pointing out that he spent most of his career in development and not aviation, and suggest that the center’s main aim would be toward developing a port zone. “The zone can be reconfigured with the regular test flights and research,” according to a research paper done by ecological activist Nikolai Kachnov quoting Lavrenty Lovitsky, the deputy of a local city assembly. Lovitsky was echoed...

... 3912-659-500; fsk-ees.ru ) is a local unit of the Federal Grid Company and supplies electricity to more than 20 million people in 10 regions. The ships that dock in Krasnoyarsk look somewhat different. Modern passenger and cargo vessels arrive at the port, one of the biggest in Siberia, with shipments of equipment, construction materials and other supplies. For one vessel, Krasnoyarsk has become a place of eternal rest. The Svyatitel Nikolai — a cargo-and-passenger paddle wheeler that was one...