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Russian Railways is discussing the electrification of the Tebriz -Azarshahr railway in Iran, IranNews reports.The company is negotiating the electrification of the Zareyi stationwith 1.5 km and construction of sectioning at Tebriz-Abbasi andAbbasi-Zareyi terminals.
The railway between the Russian city of Adler and the Abkhazian city of Sukhum is re-established. Work cost on the project 2 billion rubles, Russian Vice Premier Alexander Zhukov said today, as he officially opened the railway, Yuga.ru reports.
Speakers at the St.Petersburg Economic Forum discussed prospects for western investors on the Russian market and Russia’s accession to the WTO. US Ambassador John Beyrle was buoyantly optimistic about Russia joining the World Trade Organization. Europe also welcomed Russia’s membership in the WTO. President Medvedev addressing the 15th St.Petersburg Economic Forum said that the stage in which the state came to play a greater role in the Russian economy is over.
Armenia will conclude reconstruction of the oldest railway bridge inZamalinsky District in 2012, News Armenia reports.
Yuri Krasnozhan, chief coach of the Lokomotiv, has been dismissed, as was predicted by the Editor-in-Chief of Vestnik Kavkaza, Alexey Vlasov. Olga Smorodskaya proposed dismissing the coach for the mistakes he made during the Anzhi-Lokomotiv match.
Gagil Agadzhanyan, the head of the “Apaven” transport company, told VK why it’s so important for Armenia to develop a transport strategy
It’s huge! If the rumours about “Lokomotiv’s” coach resignation are correct and the board of directors approves the decision tomorrow, it will be a great shock for all football fans.
The Russian Transport Ministry confirmed that it would sell 10% of theshares in the Russian Railways Company no later than 2013, TransportMinister Igor Levitin said, RIA Novosti reports.No details of the sale have been revealed. However, he said thatlegislative changes are needed because privatization of infrastructurecompanies is forbidden.The government plan involves sales of 25% + one share of the railwaycompany in 2013-2015.
A railway tunnel has been built between the Central and KhostinskyDistricts of Sochi on May 2. President of the Russian Railways CompanyVladimir Yakunin arrived for the opening, RIA Novosti reports.The tunnel is one of the main railway systems for the Olympic Games inSochi-2014. A parallel railway line will run through the tunnel. Thisincreases the capacity of trains per day from 54 to 153.
The Russian Railways and Abkhaz Railway companies have concludedmaintenance of the railway section from Veseloye to Sukhumi today,president of the Russian company Vladimir Yakunin said.The work started in February 2011. Over 130 km of railways werereconstructed and over 160 sets of points.600 carriages were used in the restoration process.
Railway traffic on the Gremychaya-Kotelnikovo Privolzhskaya line hasbeen stopped after a collision of a train and a truck, only one-sideof the railway is active, RIA Novosti cites the Russian RailwaysCompany as saying.
The Institute of Economy and Transport of the Russian Railways prepared a project for passenger railway transport for the 2018 World Cup . It may need an additional one trillion rubles, RIA Novosti reports. FIFA voted for Russia to host the cup. 13 cities may host the games: Moscow, Daint-Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Kazan, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod, Saransk, Samara, Volgograd, Yekaterinburg, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar and Sochi.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has dismissed Alexander Saltanov, the Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and special representative to the Middle East. Saltanov has been operating in the region and North Africa for almost 10 years, RIA Novosti reports.
South Caucasian Railways (SCR) will conduct a regular spring inspection of roads and railway structures, News Armenia reports referring to the press service of the company.The main focus during the inspection will be given to testing the emergency response activities, checking the sanitary facilities, repairing the tracks and training the employees.The South Caucasian Railways are a 100% subsidiary of Russian Railways.
A factory of Siemens (Germany) in Krefeld (North Rhine-Westphalia) has started production of the Lastochka electric train for the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, within the contract signed with the company Russian Railways, RIA Novosti reports. The first portion will consist of 38 trains, President of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin said.
The North Caucasian management of the Russian Railways Company plans to fence 53 train stations in the South and North Caucasian Federal Districts with a 50-meter security zone to prevent terrorist attacks, the deputy head of the company's management, Vladimir Kulakovsky, told RIA Novosti on Tuesday. The initiative has been discussed since the terrorist attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport on January 24, in which 36 people were killed. Railway officials proposed regulations on railway stations.
The Board of Directors of Russian Railways (RZD) at a meeting on Tuesday approved the sale of shares in four subsidiaries, said the head of the Council, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Z
Yerevan is hosting the first Russian-Armenian interregional forum, participated in by the head of the Russian presidential administration, Sergey Naryshkin, and his Armenian counterpart, Karen Karapetyan, News Armenia reports.
The investment climate in Russia remains “very bad” and is a result of corruption and higher taxes, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said at the Commission for Modernizing Economy.
A blast in Dagestan this morning did not affect the schedule of railway traffic between Azerbaijan and Russia, head of the press-service of the Azerbaijani Railways Company Nadir Azmamedov said. He said that the only train from Baku is currently on its way to Tyumen and has not reached the Russian border yet. The Moscow-Baku train will arrive this evening. Azmamedov said that no limitations were introduced in Russia.
