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On 13 June, construction commenced in Dubna, near Moscow, on a mega-science class facility: the superconducting collider of the NICA (Nuclotron-based Ion Collider Facility) accelerator complex. Construction of the facility commenced at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in 2013, a year...

By Rhod Mackenzie

From January to May 2024, 1.9 million tons of fertilizers were supplied to the EU from Russia. The European statistical agency attributes this to the fact that the high cost of gas forced EU chemical companies to cease production. What other factors have contributed to the increa...

There is currently a proposal to merge Russia's Mir payment system with those of the other BRICS countries. The experience of merging Russia's Mir system with Iran's Shetab could serve as an example, Tehran believes. Similar projects are already being discussed with Turkey and India, Russia's main t...

In the West, many banks, airports and even hospitals suddenly stopped working. This was due to a global outage of the Windows operating system caused by a faulty update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. At the same time, the technical problems had virtually no impact on Russia. How did our countr...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The German Government' shameful and cowardly cover up of the culprits behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines continues
Lets reacll on the night of 26 September 2022, explosions occurred on the pipelines of the Nord Streams. Three of the 4 pipelines were damaged .The ex...

Since the beginning of the year, the Russian manufacturing has grown by 8.8%. Companies are successfully meeting the challenges posed by the sanctions and are even using them as an opportunity for further growth. At the same time, however, they are not exempt from the high modern standards of produc...