Gluttony Temple Needs Reviviscence
In our times when everything is aimed at making a profit, the legendary Yeliseevsky store in Moscow was jointly managed by the Yeliseevsky company and the Alye Parusa grocery chain since 2005. At the...
Archive for April 2021
April 2021
Russian Ballet: 40 Years of Harmony of Music and Dance
One year ago, Vyacheslav Gordeev, People's Artist of the USSR, when asked by a wek.ru reporter about how his Russian Ballet Theater was surviving the COVID-19 epidemic, said: "Just like the rest of...
AUE All Way up to Outskirts
Investigative Committee of Russia reported that for the first time, the Main Investigative Department of Moscow Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the establishment of a cell of the...
Miratorg's Owners Lose Good Profits From Lawsuit Against Media
Miratorg Agribusiness Holding, a Russian privately-held agribusiness company based in Moscow and one of the largest producers and distributors of meat products in Russia, is well known in the...
Village Schools Canteens Reach City Schools Level
There are about 25,000 village schools in Russia where from 70 to 300 children are studying. Al of them, according to the decree of Vladimir Putin, receive hot meals. Wek.ru decided to make a visit...
Russian base in Sudan is Matter of Security and Prestige
It emerged that news about the freezing of the construction of the Russian military base in Sudan was fake. As a result, many people found out from it that the Russian Defense Ministry was building a...
Why is Price of Saury Soaring?
In Russia, canned saury is one of the favorite foodstuffs among people thanks to its taste and acceptable price. However, the price of a can of saury has recently spiked above the level of 150 rubles...
Russian ski Resort to be Transformed Into “Siberian Switzerland”
The destiny of the Sheregesh ski resort, located in the Kemerovo region in southern Siberia has caught the eye of Russia’s governmental circles. At the beginning of the year, Vladimir Putin...
Once you start squeezing you can’t stop…who really sets the rules for Russian businessmen?
There is no such thing in Russia as a get-out-of-jail-free card. Everybody can get there. Not easy to get out. As the founder of the KGB Felix Dzerzhinsky used to joke, "Lack of criminal records is...
In Civil Aviation, Costs are High and Effective Demand is low
According to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, civil aviation has a special place in Russia’s transport complex as the development of regions and regular life of millions of people depend on its...
Bill Comes in Threes
In January, the residents of Krasnoyarsk, a major industrialized city in south-central Siberia, started receiving heating bills. The figures they saw there outraged many. When people pay 'as you go,'...
Surveying Weather is not Real Honey
On March 10, Vladimir Putin issued an instruction to the government to prepare a report by 20 April on the system of remuneration for public sector workers and its relevance to performance targets....
Young Generation do not Live in USSR but Want it Back
"A total of 67% of Russians regret the collapse of the Soviet Union," the Megatyumen portal says citing the results of a poll of the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center on people’s perception...
State Duma Passed 7 new Laws
Thanks to the efforts of the State Duma, seven new laws will come into force in Russia. Two of them that are related to the Mir payment card and to the changes to the procedure of technical...
Reserve Special Forces
On 22 March, the story of a unique person was released on Russian television. Yuri Tarkhanov, a former soldier of special forces, challenges criminals who are destroying Lake Baikal. The...
RNG: Rising Star of Oil Production in Eastern Siberia by founders of Taas-Yuryakh - Reuters News
RNG, a private player in the sparsely populated oil market of Eastern Siberia, surfing on the wave of difficulties that hit the industry in 2020: the company, whose shareholders are under...
Not by Bread Alone
Complex for deep processing of grain will be built in the Krasnoyarsk territory. In terms of its gross harvest, the area has reached the Soviet level. It has significant surpluses for high...
Russian Oligarch Hits Aluminum Industry Where It Hurts
New aluminum smelter in the Irkutsk region will be put into operation in the next few months. Its construction seemed to be endless. RUSAL, the world's second largest aluminum company in terms of...
Prices Hinge on Arbitrariness of Trade Monopolies, Says Expert
Chicken meat is known to be particularly popular with the Russians. This fact is easy to explain as its prices are more or less affordable, especially in comparison with beef or pork. In addition, it...
Penza Region Might be Filled up With Waste
In 2021, a waste recycling plant is to be built near Penza [a city 625 km to southeast of Moscow.] It has become a subject of juicy discussions. Officials cannot decide whether to use a landfill in...
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