Drones attacked Ukraine’s Russia-controlled Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant yesterday and hit one of its six reactor buildings, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reports. The IAEA said the attack didn’t…

Re-elected Russian president Vladimir Putin has made a virtual appearance at a groundbreaking ceremony for the high-speed railway between Moscow and St Petersburg, state news agency Tass reports. The link…

Russia’s space agency Roscosmos has again floated the idea of putting a nuclear reactor on the Moon. Its director general Yuri Borisov said it could be attempted between 2033 and…

Officials from Iran and Russia have been discussing ways to expedite a project to build a railway between the Iranian city of Rasht and the town of Astara in Azerbaijan…

Russia’s planned Power of Siberia 2 pipeline intended to ship Russian gas to China is facing delays, the Financial Times reported yesterday. The 3,550km line under discussion and development for…

Rosatom aims to build the world’s largest fast neutron reactor at its Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Plant near Yekaterinburg, website Nuclear Engineering International reports. Plant director Ivan Sidorov said work on…

Russian president Vladimir Putin and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel al-Sisi attended a virtual ceremony to mark the beginning of construction at the fourth and final reactor for the $25bn El…

The government of Mali has signed an agreement in principle with the government of Russia to build a gold refinery in the Malian capital of Bamako. Turkish news agency Anadolu…

Russia has started to build a railway over annexed Ukrainian territory between the Russian border city of Rostov-on-Don and Crimea, Newsweek reports.

As Kyiv races to offload troubled state firms and property, ‘distressed asset investors’ are watching with interest.

Work on the Mongolian section of Russia’s gas pipeline to China will start in the first half of next year, reports Russian news agency Tass. It quoted Viktoria Abramchenko, a…

Four unnamed Dutch firms and eight individuals have been penalised in the Netherlands for helping Russia build a bridge to Crimea between 2014 and 2017 in breach of EU sanctions,…

Russian and Chinese companies have agreed a deal to invest $686m in a Siberian oil transhipment complex, the Reuters news agency reports.

China and Russia have agreed to invest in a “land grain corridor” to improve trade between the two countries, the South China Morning Post reports.

Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni said this week that Russia and South Korea would build two nuclear power stations in his country, the Anadolu news agency reports. He told the G-25…

A Russian submarine designer is working on a submersible nuclear power unit that can dive to a depth of 400m and provide energy to remote Arctic settlements, reports Strana Rosatom,…

The United Nations’ culture, education, and science agency Unesco has strongly condemned Russia’s missile attack on the historic centre of Odesa, Ukraine, which is protected under the World Heritage Convention.…

It will take “at least a year” to repair grain-terminal infrastructure at the Ukrainian ports of Odesa and Chornomorsk after Russian attacks last week, Ukraine’s minister of agrarian policy has…