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By Rhod Mackenzie

Despite the challenging circumstances, Russian mechanical engineering is demonstrating remarkable resilience and adaptability. The industry's decline commenced in spring 2022 amidst mounting geopolitical tensions, but proved to be of short duration. The first growth impulse occur...

By Rhod Mackenzie
Since 2022 Russia has embarked on a major programme of import substitution to replace their dependency on western technology and equipment, lets look at how that is going in trains,planes and automobiles.

Towards the end of 2023, Russian Railways initiated the inaugural journey...

Despite the challenging circumstances, Russian mechanical engineering is demonstrating remarkable resilience. The decline of the industry began in the spring of 2022, coinciding with an increase in geopolitical tensions. However, this proved to be a short-lived phenomenon. The first growth impulse o...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated that Russia will begin to produce everything it may lack due to Western sanctions. He made this announcement at a meeting with the heads of the world's leading news agencies in St. Petersburg.

"Yes, we may have to adjust our goals to...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Russia is experiencing rapid growth in an industry that until recently was almost entirely dominated by foreign manufacturers – the pharmaceutical and medical industries. Hundreds of new drugs and medical devices developed in Russia have appeared, and entire medical clusters are...

NOVATEK has once again revised the composition of key equipment for the power supply of the Arctic LNG-2 plant under construction. Instead of procuring machines from the Chinese Harbin Guanghan Gas Turbine, which may not meet the deadline, the company has ordered three GTE-170 units from Power Machi...