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From White Nights to the Winter Palace, Multiple Overnights Allow Extended Visit LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- With Crystal Serenity spending three consecutive days in St. Petersburg on each of five Summer 2013 Baltic/Northern Europe cruises, Crystal travelers will have ample time to fully indulge in Russian treasures. Whether one is a first-time sightseer, repeat visitor, an adventurer seeking more unexpected sites, or a traveler who prefers to arrange a more private,...

MANCHESTER, N.H., Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- EagleBurgmann, a Freudenberg Group company, is supplying special seals for most of the pumping stations on the ESPO (East Siberia Pacific Ocean) pipeline. The involvement of EagleBurgmann is an example of Freudenberg's concerted expansion in the oil and gas production field. ESPO (East Siberia Pacific Ocean) is a mammoth pipeline project. The pipeline, with a length of almost 5,000 kilometers, is being built in the East of Russia...

Rising temperatures and melting ice could prove to be an economic boon to Russia, thanks to the revitalization of a Soviet-era maritime shipping route along the coast of Siberia, according to Reuters reports on Friday. That path is known as the Northern Sea Route and to links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through a route along the nation's Arctic coast from Murmansk on the Barents Sea to the Bering Strait and the Far East. Previously known as the Northeast Passage, the route, which...

MOSCOW, Jan. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Euro 200M worth of deals will be executed during just the first day of the Russian National Exposition at the International Green Week 2011 Initiative, which opened in Berlin on Monday. A total of around euro 500M worth of investment projects will be presented by the Russian participants at the largest European agricultural fair. "Foreign investment and market share for Russian agricultural products at the world markets are two main issues which we...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, December 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Novaar Capital Management SPC ("Novaar") today announced the creation of a Joint Venture with JSC Ural Industrial-Ural Polar ("Ural Polar") an entity owned by state institutions of the Russian Federation, to facilitate Foreign Direct Investment ("FDI") in the natural resource-rich Urals region of the country. Novaar, a Saudi-led investment concern, in cooperation with preferred strategic partners, will invest through the...

A gold deposit estimated at more than 100 tons has been found in Siberia, the Russian National Geological Prospecting Co. announced Tuesday.The gold field is in the Republic of Buryatia in East Siberia, RIA Novosti reported. It was found in the Perevalny Block, owned by Geomin Management, the Russian news agency said.Geomin plans to invest $18 million at the site for additional exploration in 2009, officials said.Russia is a significant producer of gold, but in recent years known reserves...

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK. Oct 3 (Interfax) - Gazprom (RTS: GAZP) plans to launch production at the Kirinskoye gas field, which is part of the Sakhalin-3 project, in 2014, Viktor Timoshilov, head of the company's eastern projects coordination department, said at an oil and gas conference in Sakhalin. Gazprom will prepare design and estimate documentation in 2009- 2010, carry out seismic work and drill two wells, he said. "The field is expected to open in 2014," he said. Gas reserves at the...

Russia-based Mobile TeleSystems has launched its 3G networks in Novosibirsk, Norilsk and Vladivostok. Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) launched the first pan-regional 3G network in Russia in May 2008 in St Petersburg followed by Sochi, Yekaterinburg and Kazan. In August 2008, MTS expanded its 3G network to Nizhniy Novgorod. In September 2008, the company brought next-generation networks to Novosibirsk and Norilsk, the two industrial centers in Siberia, and Vladivostok. The company intends to launch...

To mark the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist acts, on 12 September Russian Channel One TV showed a controversial documentary, "Zero", which questions the official version of events. The screening of the film, made by prominent Italian journalist and MEP Giulietto Chiesa, was followed by a studio discussion, in which two groups of experts - those who agree with Chiesa's version and those who disagree - expressed their views. "The film, justifiably or not - we'll be discussing this...

MOSCOW. July 14 (Interfax) - Companies operating three oil projects in Russia under product-sharing agreements failed to ensure the planned level of oil production stipulated in the PSAs in 2007, the Audit Chamber said in a statement. An Audit Chamber session chaired by Chairman Sergei Stepashin in early July considered the results of inspections into the effectiveness of the government's activities in managing existing projects being carried out based on PSAs. The statement says that...