Construction of the regional hospital on Kamchatka, a 1,250 kilometres long peninsula in the Russian Far East, is underway for ten years. During this time the foundation and metal scaffoldings of the...
Delayed documentation approval from the part of the Nizhny Novgorod region’s officials has led to the fact that the Cosmocourse company is transferring the testing stage of the reusable flyback...
Federal Agency for Forestry Affairs (Rosleskhoz) officially stated: the vast majority of cases of forest theft happened in the Irkutsk region located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the...
In January 2020, the residents of Ufa, the capital city of the Republic of Bashkortostan, a constituent region of Russia to the west of the Ural Mountains, received heating bills with unexpectedly...
The laughter of the TV host of the ‘Vesti’ newscast in Kamchatka over the increase of social payments cannot have any legal consequences -- the law does not provide for any. In most probability,...
Despite all the efforts of the authorities to make installation of Russian software on all gadgets mandatory – even with the help of legislative amendments -- these measures do not work. Moreover, in...
Konstantin Aranovsky, a Russian Constitutional Court judge believes that the Russian Federation should renounce the status of the successor to the Soviet Union, as, in his opinion, the latter was...
The issue of unification of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region has once again gotten into the agenda. Local residents are promised a unified transport system, solution of the problem of garbage,...
The Central Bank of Russia has published amendments to Regulation No. 375-P which define the indications of suspicious transactions. By these criteria, banks can block the clients’ accounts. The list...
A new reform has been launched in Tver, a Russian city to northwest of Moscow, between Moscow and St Petersburg. It is aimed at replacing the shuttle vans, known as marshrutkas in Russian, with...
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has drafted a bill that permits the lending institutions to use data of the Federal Tax Service. The relevant document has been submitted to the State Duma...
At the end of last week, the prices of medical masks in the pharmacies of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia’s fourth largest city 450 km to the east of Moscow, were at the usual level of 15 to 80 rubles per...
A yet another time, investors have made public a plan to build an ultramodern office complex in Strelka, an urban locality under the administrative jurisdiction of the town of Lesosibirsk in the...
Residents of townships in the Chelyabinsk region in southern Urals are rebelling against the deployment of quarantine centers for Chinese citizens and the Russians who have visited China near their...
Driven by the desire to get more taxes from people, the government extended the regulations for registration of self-employed persons to 19 more regions in addition to the four regions where they had...
There is no doubt that the officials will take the credit of this "generous" gift to the disabled people. Moreover, some of them will continue uttering the words like "increase” and “premium" -- or...
The Kazakh village of Aukatty, where the ethnic group called the Dungans settled densely, looks like the war film shots: burnt-out houses and cars off the roads blackened by fire. Aukatty, Sortobe...
"Black sky mode" – this expression can often be heard in Russia’s major industrial cities. Usually it is set in frosty windless weather in winter. Sometimes during heatwaves in the summer. The...
The State Duma lower house of parliament has refused support a bill proposing to oblige state media to publish the results of party fractions' voting on the issues that are mandatory for publication...
The Ministry of Finance of Khakassia, Russia’s constituent republic located in the south of Siberia, has said that the region may face a default in the short term. Khakassia lacks about 14 billion...
