Gazprom is experiencing good dynamics in its gas exports to Europe through Nord Stream  and OPAL pipelines; at the same time, transit through Ukraine has even increased, TASS reported quoting  Chairman of the Board of Gazprom, Alexey Miller.

"Between August 1 and August 8, production through the OPAL gas pipeline by Gazprom increased by 30%. Today, the pipeline has reached full capacity. The volume of daily gas supply to Greifswald reached 140 million cubic meters on August 8. That is, the use …

The so-called “leader” of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Alexander Zakharchenko stated that the public did not like the name “Malorossiya” (“Little Russia”), but the very idea of “re-establishment” of the country aroused great interest.

“The very idea of re-establishment of the state, which is plunged into a deep economic and political crisis and not attempting to carry out radical reforms to federalize the country and find ways out of the collapse, received broad support,” said …

Temporary power outages are being introduced in the Krasnodar Krai region (Russia) due to hot weather. It is also related to the difficult situation regarding energy supply of the Crimea, the administration of the Krasnodar Krai said.

Thus, electricity outages will be conducted in the evening – from 20:00 to 23:00 for consumers in Novorossiysk, Anapa, and Gelendzhik, as well as in the Crimean Abinsk, Slavyan, Krasnoarmeisk, Temryuk districts of the Krasnodar Territory. Power outages, as has …

On Wednesday 9th of August the Capital Police alerted the public that an "authorised low-altitude aircraft" would fly in restricted airspace between 11:00 am and 3:00 pm. The message stated that the aircraft "will be large and may fly directly over the U.S. Capitol."  

The Capitol Police further added that the aircraft "will be monitored by U.S. Capital Police and other federal government agencies." 

The Russian Air Force TU-154 aircraft conducted the flight under the Treaty on Open Skies …

Since the start of August 2017, large-scale deployment of Russian military equipment has been observed along all lines of the European border with Russia.

This is the finding of an OSINT investigation by the international investigative community InformNapalm, Ukrinform reports.

By monitoring social networks and analyzing photographs, InformNapalm volunteers established that since the start of August 2017, “large-scale deployment of Russian military equipment has begun along all lines of the …

A video surveillance camera set up by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) at the Donetsk Filtration Station (DFS) was shot at and destroyed.

“The OSCE SMM camera at the DFS worked for only one day, and was shot from the south and south-west. The camera was destroyed,” said the OSCE SMM report on its microblog on Twitter on Wednesday, which included photos of the damaged camera.

Alexander Hug, Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE SMM to Ukraine stated that before the camera was …

Rosneft's advance payments under contracts with the Venezuelan state-owned oil company PDVSA is approximately $6 billion in total; full repayment is expected before the end of 2019, as stated during a conference call on August 8th by Alexander Krastilevsky, Vice President and Advisor to the President of Rosneft and Director of the Department for Planning, Performance Management, Development, and Investments in Refining, Commerce, and Logistics. He specified that $5.7 billion is the principal …

Four mobile gas turbine power plants (MGTS) with a total capacity of 88 Megawatts (MW) will be delivered to the annexed Crimea from the Russian mainland in order to cover the existing energy deficit in the Region. This was announced to the Russian media by the Member of the State Duma of Russia from the annexed peninsula, Mikhail Sheremet.

"Here, on the territory of the republic, we plan to supply four MGTS from the mainland of Russia with a capacity of 22 MW each. This is enough for us to …