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Kseniia Pavlova

The stone whose name barely differs from the one of an elite dog breed

лабрадор
The wave of interest in this mineral swept over Europe in the eighteenth century. The richest people of England and France were fighting with each other for a chance to get their hands on a piece of this stone. Rare people could acquire it though, due to its extreme scarcity. This stone was used to decorate the rooms of monarchs. It set the fashion trends for noble people of that time. How could it happen that centuries later the stone’s name is associated only with a dog breed and a peninsula in the Atlantic Ocean?
Environment

A stone who can beat cancer

висмут
This mineral has been known to humanity for thousands of years. However, its unique properties were discovered only five centuries ago through the inquiry of alchemists, which revealed that a non-base metal by nature could turn into gold.
Environment

Russian-British Raw Materials Dialogue: The Final Day

Российско-Британский сырьевой диалог
Out of the many challenges that mining industry is facing nowadays, the Dialogue’s participants placed specific attention to whittling down deficit of skilled engineers through competency assessment and development.
Economics

Are British businesses ready to embrace positive attitude towards Russia since Brexit is on its way?

Российско-Британский сырьевой диалог
A delegation from the UK, who came to St. Petersburg to participate in the Russian-British Raw Materials Dialogue, aims to destroy the negative buzz surrounding Russia that builds up in the Western media.
Economics

Russian-British Raw Materials Dialogue. Day Zero

Молодёжный день
One of the main advantages of meetings held in the forum format is in the opportunity to establish real contacts between the scientific and business communities of two countries, achieved by switching from exchange of opinions and theoretical discussions to more practical concerns.
Society

They say that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, whereas ladies should rather opt for amazonite instead

амазонит
Each and every stylishly dressed women should have jewellery items. What stone to choose though? Most ladies would say that the answer is obvious - diamonds, but in times of the Amazons neither diamonds nor rubies were considered a stone appropriate for women.
Environment

The drifting sands or a reason of two incidents at St. Petersburg Metro

размыв
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.
Society

A stone to back up financial expenses of Taliban movement

лазурит
For over six thousand years, people have been shedding their blood to get their hands on this mineral. In ancient times, slaves were dying while trying to pull the stone from the mountain tops, caravans carrying semiprecious stone to European countries were disappearing, and even innocent bystanders who happened to catch hold of it all of a sudden were getting lost.
Environment

The Nobel Prize analogue worth of $1 million

Фрайберг
There is an initiative to establish an award, which would be granted annually to two researchers for exceptional scientific achievements or inventions contributing to the further development of the mining industry.
Society

Russia is about to make 5 billion euros through development of hydrogen energetics

водород
Russian and German scientists are planning to work together on improvement of the technologies of hydrogen production, storage and transportation, as well as on the issue of its subsequent generation into electricity. Will this gas become the future of the energy industry?
Energetics

Top manager of Shell: Russia is able to increase its share in the global LNG supplies to 20-25% of the market

shell
As stated by Mario Mehren, the CEO of a German-based Wintershall Dea, before the end of the year the companies participating in the Nord Stream 2 project are likely to receive permission from Denmark to build a gas pipeline in its territorial waters.
Energetics

Russia and Australia. Mr Graeme Meehan says there is a great potential in relations between our countries

Грейм Михан
After visiting the Mining University, the Ambassador of Australia to the Russian Federation stated the need to expand academic cooperation between both countries.
Society

Russia and Finland. Where do we go from here?

Путин и Ниинистё
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.
Politics

Russian researchers and scientists are capable of creating breakthrough technologies. The question is whether businesses are ready to embrace them

Горный университет
This September, a new academic year has begun and, with the start of the new school year, traditional discussions on the role of education and universities in Russia have once again resumed.
Science and technics

Finnish researchers are eager to cooperate with Russian specialists

Лаппеенранта
A number of Finnish universities is keen on cooperating with higher education institutions of St. Petersburg. Why would they do so?
Science and technics

If it was not for the invention of the Mining Institute’s Professor, the fate of Leningrad could have been a lot more tragic

война
This September marks the 78th anniversary from the day the siege of Leningrad started (Leningrad is a former name of Saint-Petersburg, commonly used throughout the Soviet period or, more precisely, from 1924 till 1991). During that time, up to 1.5 million people were presumably killed - more than nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused, if combined.
Society
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