Economics

British miners gave their colleagues from Saint-Petersburg an authority to certify specialists of mineral companies with such titles as ”Professional Engineer” or ”Fellow Engineer”. As for today, these titles have been officially recognized in 124 countries.

In the first nine months of this year, Kuzbass produced 190 million tons of coal, which is 5.4% more than in the same period of 2017. Exactly the same amount was exported from Russia last year. Despite the fact that black gold has lost the domestic market to natural gas, it is still in very high demand in the world, mainly because of the growth of consumption in the Asia-Pacific region. In order to provide an insight into the situation, ”Forpost” asked Oleg Kazanin, the Dean in the Department of Mining Engineering at Saint-Petersburg Mining University, a few questions, such as what role science currently plays in increasing coal production and what scientific developments may help increase the profitability of its production.

As BRICS Summit, which took place this time in South Africa, is over, field experts continue summarizing the end results of this meeting.

“German-Russian Raw Materials Dialogue on River Saar” conference held in Völklinger Hutte old factory building started on thursday, the 14th of June, in town of Völklingen, Germany. Dr. Michael Muller, president of the board of Stahl-Holding-Saar company, opened the forum.

By 2030 staff shortage in many branches of Russian economy may reach 2 million 800 thousand people. “Forpost” found out what is the best way to avoid such scenario.

Bloomberg analysts claim that in 2025 electric cars will cost the same as ICE vehicles.

For the first time, Russian private investors bought two small power plants to create a data center and a farm for mining cryptocurrency.

The prospects of economic development of Russia was one of the central topics of the Vladimir Putin’s big press conference. According to the President, the introduction of high technologies and increase in labor productivity, that is, the transition to an innovative economy.