Global Sustainability

Is a rich raw-material base ’the Resource Curse’ for Russia? Or is it a country’s competitive advantage on the global stage?

New anti-trust legislation policies and sanctions have led to the situation when supply volumes of Russian pipeline gas have almost reached their limits. Is there a way to turn the situation around?

По прогнозам, в ближайшие 10 лет около трети всех существующих в мире рабочих мест будут роботизированы. Где машины полностью заменят людей?

Where are Israeli hydrocarbon reserves coming from?

Bukasa Mukendi Pitchu, Associate Professor from the University of Namibia, got his PhD in Russia and continued his studies in Canada. Despite some 12 years have passed since the graduation date, he is still using tools and techniques he learn while studying in the Mining University. This January, he paid a visit to St. Petersburg. What was the purpose of his trip?

There is an enormous amount of waste rock dumps left by the companies after extraction. Neither officials nor business people are interested in doing anything about the open dumps, although development of waste materials could earn them reasonable profits

It was a year ago when the launch of a large-scale waste management reform was announced in Russia.

One of the main topics of this year’s Russian-German Raw Materials Dialogue was cooperation prospects for the two countries, as they have been seeking for the ways to contribute to environmentally sustainable development and fight against the global warming.

In accordance with the calculations done by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment of the Russian Federation, the total value of mineral resources in possession of the country amounts to approximately 93.4 trillion roubles (roughly $1.46 trillion). Undeniably, the most valuable asset is oil reserves.

It was the need to speed up construction works that presumably led to the first incident at St. Petersburg metro, caused by technology violations when building interstation tunnels between Lesnaya and Ploschad Muzhestva metro stations.