Politics

St. Petersburg Mining University hosted a meeting of students, graduate students, and faculty with Alexander Yakovenko, Rector of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia to the UK in 2011-2019. The almost two-hour conversation on all aspects of international relations was conducted in the mode of frank dialogue.

Polling stations were organized in four dormitories of Mining University.

The network of foreign partner universities of Russian scientific community is set to increase further.

This August, Russian President Vladimir Putin paid a visit to Finland to meet his Finnish colleague Sauli Niinistö. It is expected that one of the fruitful areas of our partnership will most likely be introduction of innovations in the field of environmental protection and landfill reclamation.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev gave an order to assemble a work team. The team should be ready by the 10th of September, and its primary function is to ensure delivering water supplies to Crimea.

According to survey results, more than 60% of Germany’s population stands for lifting sanctions against our country. One big reason for it is job cuts, as over 60,000 people were fired in those companies, who were mainly oriented on partnering with Russia.

The Chief Executive Officer of PhosAgro, Andrey Guryev, and Orica Group Executive and President for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Tom Schutte, met in Moscow to discuss ongoing cooperation and opportunities to expand the strategic partnership between the two companies in the CIS region. PhosAgro is one of the world’s largest producers of phosphate-based fertilizers, while Orica is the global leader in the production of commercial explosives and innovative blasting systems for the mining, quarrying, oil and gas and construction markets, a leading supplier of sodium cyanide for gold extraction, and a specialist provider of ground support services in mining and tunnelling.

On January, 10th, head of FRG Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sigmar Gabriel put forward an initiative on a step-by-step lifting of anti-Russia sanctions if lasting truce in the south-east of Ukraine is maintained.

«Forpost» asked the German political scientist Alexander Rahr, whether the chances for the implementation of «Nord Streem 2» and the normalization of relations between Russia and the EU as a whole are great.