North Remembers How to Build
Good news for the residents of Norilsk, an industrial city in the north of Siberia above the Arctic Circle, east of the Yenisei River and south of the Taymyr Peninsula. The city will be included in...
Archive for 2020
Months of 2020
Coronavirus Panic Buying
Psychologists believe that primarily, panic buying of food in Moscow’s shops is caused by the fact that people are trying to stock up on the most necessary things for a long time. They understand...
"We Have two Possible Scenarios:" Head Doctor Comments On the Coronavirus in Russia
Discussions of a possible end of the pandemic, as well as the potential development of the situation in Russia were raised in the interview with Denis Protsenko, the head doctor of Moscow’s...
Crimea Overfilled with Garbage
Only one of 12 garbage dumps in Crimea has an official license. According to experts, if a full cycle from collection to recycling is not implemented on the peninsula in the short term, Crimea will...
Will Voronezh Get Metro?
Over the past few years, the story of metro construction in Voronezh has become surrounded by unpleasant details and lawsuits. The administration of the regional center considered several projects of...
“... is President Here?”
Defrauded homebuyers of the Skhodnya Park residential complex, located in Khimki, 30 kilometres to the northwest of central Moscow, have been trying to make local authorities finish construction of...
“Prices to Rise:” Expert Comments on Collapse of Ruble and oil Prices
Russia should expect a price hike that will limit the opportunities during vacations and much more, says Galina Lapushinskaya, PhD.
Peculiarities of Diplomatic Service
Ambitious plans to upgrade the Moscow Country Club, 5 star golf club, made by new top executives of GlavUpDK at the Russian Foreign Ministry, a commercial organization subordinate to the ministry,...
Arkhangelsk Protesting Against Garbage Once Again
Last weekend, a single day of environmental protest actions was held in the Arkhangelsk region and some other regions. It was organized by activists of the Stop-Shiyes environmental association and...
State Duma Deputy Suggests That Russians Should be Allowed to Retire Early
Andrey Baryshev, State Duma deputy, believes that the project will help resolve the conflict in terms of pension insurance records, which are necessary to ensure that certain categories of residents...
Grandson of Oryol Region
In February 2020, a new tenant appeared in the Afanasyevsky prestigious residential complex in Moscow. According to the statement from the Federal Agency for State Registration, Cadastre, and...
Novosibirsk Applying Double Standards to Defrauded Homebuyers
The Novosibirsk region has the biggest number of defrauded real estate investors in Siberia. At the beginning of March, 98 unfinished houses across the region were listed in the Unified Information...
Putin Admits his Participation in Next Presidential Election in Russia
According to the incumbent Russian President, his participation in the next presidential election will be possible if an appropriate decision is approved by the Constitutional Court. For this to...
Krasnoyarsk Сadets Will Not Have to Fast Anymore
Food standards in the cadet corps of the Krasnoyarsk territory will be revised to reach those of the Suvorov military schools, a type of boarding school in the former Soviet Union and in modern...
Will Resettlement from Dilapidated Houses in Karelia be Finished?
The Foundation for Assistance to the Reform of the Housing and Utilities Sector has revoked about 400 mln rubles ($5,465,360) from the Republic of Karelia, a region in northwest Russia, bordering...
Siberian Region Threatening Developers with Bankruptcy
In the republic of Buryatia, a Siberian region to the east of Lake Baikal, nine construction companies may be declared bankrupt if construction of the problematic facilities, which they are...
Indexation of Pensions Useless: Expert Criticizes Putin's Constitutional Idea
The indexation of pensions, which the government is waving as its main achievement as part of the pension system reform, turned out to be a useless idea at all. Moreover, for some reason President...
“People are Robbed:” State Duma Calls on Head Antimonopoly Watchdog to Tackle Appetites of Government Companies
Valery Gartung, a member of A Just Russia faction, noted that today, more than 70% of the Russian economy is under full control of the state. There is a similar situation in the fuel and energy...
“Objective factors:” Putin Blaming Cheap Oil for Drop in Russians’ Revenues
When asked by reporters if he should have personal responsibility for the decline in people's income, Vladimir Putin made an attempt to justify officials.
"Saving on a Tricky Recalculation of Payments:" State Duma Again Criticized Pension Fund and Cabinet of Ministers
To put it simply, some deputies of the State Duma suspect that a simplistic manipulation of data by the Federal Service of State Statistics (Rosstat) allows the Russian government and the Pension...