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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A Russian scientist has reportedly found meteorite or asteroid fragments potentially linked to a mysterious explosion that took place over Siberia more than 100 years ago. The Tunguska Event, as it is called, took place in June 1908. It featured a blast that was one thousand times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb and decimated approximately 80 million trees over an 800 square mile area, but resulted in only a single...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online As reports continue to stream in through various media outlets on injuries, damages, and the science behind such events, it seems this morning’s (February 15) meteor strike in Russia’s Ural Mountains region has left a pretty big impression far and wide. At last count more than 1,200 people (at least 200 children) are believed to have been injured by the meteor, most from broken glass produced by the exploding object's...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A meteor streaked across Russia’s early morning skies on Friday before violently exploding, sending a rain of debris onto the Earth below. The flash and boom shattered windows and meteor particles left damage in its wake, injuring more than 900 people in the Ural Mountains region. Marina Mokvicheva, regional health minister in Chelyabinsk, the Russian city that had felt the brunt of the impact, told the Washington Post that 985...
LONDON, March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Russia is the second largest manufacturer of platinum group metals (PGM) and the largest producer of palladium globally. In 2010, the total Russian PGM output accounted for 34% of global production. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.industrialautomation.frost.com), Analysis of the Russian Platinum Group Metals Market, finds that the Russian PGM market produced 3.5 million ounces in 2010 and estimates this to reach 4.3 million...
MOSCOW, April 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mikhail Delyagin, a prominent Russian economist and the head of the Globalization Institute, presented his report "Why Corporate Governance Is Back On The Agenda Today, And Why Russian Corporations Need It." In his report, the author delves into the business and operations of Norilsk Nickel, one of Russia's industrial giants. Delyagin says that one of the key problems affecting the competitiveness of many national industry players in Russia, especially...
MOSCOW, February 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- UC RUSAL (SEHK: 486, EuroNext: RUSAL/RUAL, MICEX: RUALR, RTS: RUAL), the world's largest aluminium producer and owner of a 25% stake in MMC Norilsk Nickel, announced today that Glass, Lewis & Co. ("Glass Lewis"), the leading independent institutional proxy advisory service, recommended that shareholders of Norilsk Nickel vote FOR the proposal by RUSAL to approve the early termination of the powers of the Norilsk Nickel Board of...
MOSCOW, October 8, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- UC RUSAL (SEHK: 486, EuroNext: RUSAL/RUAL), the world's largest aluminium producer and owner of a 25% stake in MMC Norilsk Nickel ("Norilsk Nickel" or the "Company"), announced today that Glass, Lewis & Co. ("Glass Lewis"), a leading independent institutional proxy advisory service, recommends that shareholders of Norilsk Nickel vote FOR the proposal to approve the early termination of the powers of the...
MOSCOW, September 8, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- UC RUSAL (SEHK: 486, EuroNext: RUSAL/RUAL), the world's largest aluminium producer and owner of a 25% stake in MMC Norilsk Nickel ('MMC'), today presents a detailed strategy aimed at increasing the value of Norilsk Nickel and protecting the interests of its all shareholders. The strategy is based on a detailed programme of change. To promote the programme, RUSAL is launching the 'Save Norilsk Nickel' website, which contains...
MOSCOW. Oct 3 (Interfax) - Shares in MMC Norilsk Nickel (RTS: GMKN), the world's biggest nickel and palladium producer as well as a large producer of copper, platinum and cobalt, plummeted more than 12% on Friday following the release of weak financial results for the first half of 2008. Norilsk said unaudited net profit to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) fell 33.2% year-on-year to $2.682 billion in the half. This was way below the $3.808 billion forecast by analysts....
MOSCOW. July 24 (Interfax) - Mikhail Prokhorov's Onexim Group has decided not to take part in a tender for the giant Udokan copper field in Russia's Chita region, Onexim general director Dmitry Razumov told journalists on Thursday. Five companies submitted bids to take part in the tender for the field. The bids were submitted by MMC Norilsk Nickel (RTS: GMKN), Oleg Deripaska's SoyuzMetalResource, Mikhailovsky GOK (part of Alisher Usmanov's Metalloinvest), Onexim Group and the consortium of...
