Muscovites have started eating less sausage, but more convenience foods, less bread, but more meat. Prices of chicken meet are going down critically, as for price of salt, it has stopped growing. The head of the department of foods resources of Moscow Alexander Baburin told about the situation at the food market of the city.
By estimates of experts of Italian energy concern ENI, the volumes of Russian natural gas supplies came to 70 million cubic meters at the set norm of 74 million cubic meters/day.
By tentative data, the area of frozen winter crops comes to 3.5 million hectares or 30% of sown area. This was announced by Russian vice-minister of agriculture Sergey Mitin.
Russian president Vladimir Putin signed the federal law "About introduction of amendments to article 54 of Federal law "About communication", which cancels payments for incoming calls on mobile phones. This was informed by press-service of government head.
Transit of natural gas through Ukraine reduced, on operative data, for 2,8 % or 630 million cubic meters, comparing to the similar period of 2005. Totally, 21 billion 870 million cubic meters of gas have been transported to Europe.
In the middle of July, when the summit G8 will be held in St. Petersburg, the city airport "Pulkovo" will be closed. On July 15,16 and 17 it will exclusively serve special flights of G8 countries official delegations.
Changes in lifestyle and consumers standards of Samara citizens reflect such trends, as continuous active growth of consuming services of public catering (for 20 %), physical training and sports (for 60%), repair and dwelling housing construction (for 30 %), purchasing consumer durables, growth of number of cars, decreasing the share of purchases made on grocery and clothes markets.
A Japanese diplomat said Thursday his country planned to sign a framework agreement with Russia on the construction of a pipeline to the Pacific coast by the end of 2006.
Leading Russian truck maker KAMAZ reported $1.98 million in net profits for the first nine months of 2005 against a loss of $706,638 during the same period in 2004, the company said in a report Thursday.
Russia`s inflation rate hit 4% in January-February, an increase of 0.1% on last year`s figures, the country`s economics minister said Thursday.
Ukraine will pay $720 for storage of 1 kg of nuclear wastes on Russian territory from 2006. This was announced by Ukrainian president Victor Yushenko this Thursday.
The government is going to limit the access to 39 types of activity for foreign companies, this types of activity including production of arms, nuclear materials, nuclear project construction and strategic fields development, the head of Russian Economic Development and Trade Ministry German Gref has informed today.
Indonesian minister of environmental protection, ex-ambassador of Indonesia in Russia Rahmat Vitular considers that published on the threshold of G8 summit article of Russian president Vladimir Putin is extremely useful and actual.
The list of the territories, where tourists-recreational special economic zones are planned to be established, includes a rather considerable number of objects from Southern Federal District, including Caspian cost of Dagestan, Caucasus Mineral Waters, large part of Chechnya and Ingushetia.
Singapore Airlines has started to fly to Russia since March 1, the general representative of the Airlines in Russia has reported today.
A new type of special economical zones - port zones - will soon appear in Russia. the draft law about their establishment, worked out by Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, is coordinated with Ministry of Transport and in April may be submitted to the government.
In the Moscow area since 1 March it will become more expensive to trip in public and rail transport. The decision about an increase in the fare was accepted two weeks ago at the session of the provincial government.
The Russian and Indonesian presidents are expected to sign an agreement this summer on implementing a $122 million aerospace project, a Russian space official said Tuesday.
Moscow arbitrage court granted a petition of "Moskvich" creditors and adjudicated automobile enterprise bankrupt. The decision to take the case to court was approved by committee consisting of representatives of Tax administration, Russian Ministry of Finance and Moscow government.
Financial edition Wall Street Journal has published article of Russian president Vladimir Putin "Energy Egotism Is a Road to Nowhere" on February 28.
Premier-minister of Hungary Ferenc Gyurcsany welcomed "Gazprom" wish to create new gas-transport powers in Hungary.
From April 1 the price of imported Russian gas will rise to $110 for 1000 cubic meters in Armenia.
Russian government approved the bill about exterior administration of unprofitable regions. According to new bill subjects of Russian Federation, which profits are 70% dependant on the federal center, will lose financial independence. At present moment there are 2 candidates for sanctions - Dagestan and Ingushetia.
By "Gazprom" will allocate into the gasification of Russian regions not less than 17,6 billion rubles in the flowing and 12,2 billion rubles in 2007, reported the press-service of the concern on Sunday on the sums of the study of this problem by the council of the directors of gas monopolist.
The head of Federal Atomic Energy Agency Sergei Kiriyenko has assured that Russia will supply nuclear fuel to the Iranian Nuclear Power Plant in Busher.