| 01/25/2018 16:50 | When Soviet Aeroflot Pilot Tried To Land Blind To Win A Bet And Killed 70 People ( Avgeekery (blog) )
One such example is Russian Aeroflot Flight 6502 which ended in a fiery crash landing, killing 70 people in Soviet Russia. At the time ... On October 20, 1986, 87 passengers and 7 crew members took off from Yekaterinburg headed to Grozny via Samara (which was called Kuybyshev at the time). When ... |
| 01/23/2018 01:20 | Gebr Heinemann and local partner Greenway win exclusive duty free contract at Domodedovo ... ( The Moodie Davitt Report )
RUSSIA. Travel Retail Domodedovo (TRD) â a joint venture between Gebr Heinemann and local company Greenway â has been awarded an exclusive seven-year duty free concession at Moscow Domodedovo Airport's new international terminal. Domodedovo is the Russian capital's second-largest ... |
| 01/23/2018 01:20 | TRD wins 7-year concession at Domodedovo's new terminal ( TRBusiness )
The number of local employees needed once the new retail space opens will significantly increase too, confirms the retailer. TRD currently employs approximately 300 staff across five Russian airports (Moscow Domodedovo, Moscow Ostafyevo, Ekaterinburg Koltsovo, Samara Kurumoch and Moscow ... |
| 01/18/2018 12:40 | Lost in time: Abandoned home encased in glistening sheets of ice and snow (VIDEO) ( RT )
Footage from the house near Russia's Ural Mountains also reveals how the former occupants' belongings have become covered by frost. Meanwhile, the floor of the home has been carpeted in white layer of snow. The wintery incursion has transformed the dilapidated building into something of beauty, ... |
| 01/17/2018 20:50 | Russian airports handle 180m pax in 2017 ( CAPA - Centre for Aviation )
Russia's Minister of Transport Maksim Sokolov reported (16-Jan-2018) Russia's airports handled 180 million passengers in 2017, including 88 million recorded by Moscow airports. Saint Petersburg Pulkovo Airport handled more than 16 million passengers, up 22% year-on-year. Mr Sokolov added: "I ... |
| 01/16/2018 04:55 | Gosha Rubchinskiy ( Vogue.com )
And, on Sunday, in âmaybeâ his final Russian stop, Rubchinskiy landed into wintry YekaterinburgâRussia's fourth largest municipality, located in the Ural region, famous for being the site of the Romanov executions, and about two hours east of Moscow by plane. It's so cold in Yekaterinburg right now ... |
| 01/14/2018 20:35 | Harbin sees growing e-commerce trade with Russia in 2017 ( Xinhua )
HARBIN, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Harbin in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province saw a good e-commerce business with Russia in 2017, local authorities said. Over 130 cargo charter flights departed Harbin for Ekaterinburg, Russia's fourth largest city last year, an increase of 29 percent, said Harbin ... |
| 01/09/2018 07:35 | Russia authorizes flights to Cairo, EgyptAir eyes ops ( ch-aviation )
Russian President Vladimir Putin has authorized the resumption of direct scheduled air traffic between Moscow and Cairo Int'l. According to Egypt ... The presidential decree establishes Cairo as the exemption from the ban on direct passenger flights between Russia and Egypt. This means that direct ... |
| 01/04/2018 20:40 | Int'l airline network to connect Vietnam to larger world ( VietNamNet Bridge )
Vietnam and Russia will also consider signing more agreements to expand air routes connecting the two countries and routes from Vietnam to third countries through Russian airports. New air routes will be opened to connect Vietnam and Russia's Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok cities, while the number ... |
| 12/25/2017 00:30 | Supporters Nominate Navalny For Russian Presidential Election ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )
Supporters of Russian anticorruption activist and opposition politician Aleksei Navalny held rallies in Moscow and other Russian cities on December 24. The participants displayed red ballot cards to nominate Navalny to run in Russia's next presidential election, scheduled for March 2018. Navalny, who ... |
| 12/23/2017 06:30 | CPEC and the Silk Road Rail Network ( Daily Times )
After penetrating into Russia, train accesses to Yekaterinburg, Russia's fourth-largest city. It is place of Ural mountain range considered as the boundary between Europe and Asia. Before The Silk Road Rail Network made the world sit up and take notice, some initiatives had taken shape in form of âThe ... |
| 12/22/2017 23:55 | EXPO is worthy of the country setting the pace of the mankind's future ( RusBusinessNews )
Ekaterinburg, one of the key metropolitan cities of Russia, submits its bid for EXPO 2025 for the second time. And the ambitions of this city with a million-plus population to win the struggle over the right to hold the Worldwide (Universal) Exposition have become significantly higher. This expert opinion is ... |
| 12/19/2017 06:30 | Turkey's Yildirim in $1 bln supply deal with Russia's Midural ( Nasdaq )
YEKATERINBURG, Russia, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Russian ferroalloy firm Midural has signed a seven-year contract with Turkey'sYildirim Group for the supply of metallic chromium and low-carbon ferrochrome worth $1 billion, Midural spokesman Vsevolod Oreshkin said. Privately-owned Yildirim is Turkey's ... |
| 12/18/2017 22:20 | Turkey's Yildirim in $1 bln supply deal with Russia's Midural ( Kitco News )
YEKATERINBURG, Russia, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Russian ferroalloy firm Midural has signed a seven-year contract with Turkey's Yildirim Group for the supply of metallic chromium and low-carbon ferrochrome worth $1 billion, Midural spokesman Vsevolod Oreshkin said. Privately-owned Yildirim is Turkey's ... |
| 12/16/2017 01:35 | Russian Truckers Seek To Mount New Protest Despite Jailings, Foreign Agent Tag ( RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty )
MOSCOW -- Three months before a presidential election, Russian truck drivers who oppose a road tax are mounting a nationwide protest despite the jailing of two of their leaders and a "foreign agent" designation from the government. Thirty truck drivers in the Siberian city of Chita started the protest ... |
| 12/13/2017 17:45 | Russia adopts piggyback wagon standards ( Railway Gazette International )
RUSSIA: The Ministry of Transport has approved technical standards for the piggyback transport of lorries, trailers and cars by rail, including the adoption of a standard floor height of 1 100 mm above the rail head. The regulations follow trials which Federal Freight Co undertook on the Moscow ... |
| 12/13/2017 08:25 | 'Anything can be fabricated': Retired Russian general on accusations of involvement in MH17 crash ( Newsline )
A group of western activists investigating the 2014 tragedy with the Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine say they have found the person believed to be involved in the crash, in the person of a Russian military official. RT spoke to the accused man, Nikolay Tkachyov, who denies any such allegations ... |
| 12/09/2017 17:35 | Russian general ID'd ordering actions before downing of MH17 ( Brisbane Times )
Moscow: A semi-retired Russian three-star general oversaw the cross-border movements of a rocket launcher used to bring down a passenger jet in 2014 over eastern Ukraine, killing all aboard, an investigation by a team of reporting outlets has found. The reporting team, made up of McClatchy news in ... |
| 12/09/2017 05:40 | Son of US spy pilot sees artifacts at Russian museum ( The Mainichi )
"It is now history. We can reflect on it and learn from it," said Powers, who founded the Cold War Museum in Warrenton, Virginia. The elder Powers parachuted from his plane when it was hit by a Soviet missile about 1400 kilometers (870 miles) east of Moscow. He was imprisoned and exchanged in 1962 ... |
| 12/09/2017 00:35 | December Aussie wrap-up: Big Daddy Lucas Browne considering options, Gradovich out of TJ ... ( Maxboxing )
IBF #3 super bantamweight TJ Doheny 17-0 (13) had some bad news on the weekend when his opponent IBF #6 Evgeny Gradovich 23-2-1 (9) withdrew from their world title eliminator scheduled for 15 December in Yekaterinburg, Russia citing eye issues that are likely to end his successful career. |
