Turkey has entered into talks with China, Russia, and South Korea on possible deals to build the country’s second and third nuclear power plants (NPPs), and with the US and…

An employee of Russia’s embassy in Canberra is refusing to leave the site of a planned new embassy in the capital after the Australian government terminated Russia’s lease on the…

Australia’s Parliament yesterday rushed through a law preventing Russia from building a second embassy next to Parliament House in Canberra on grounds of national security. Backed by opposition MPs and…

Russian president Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi held a virtual meeting today to sign an agreement to finance, design and build a rail-based transport corridor between the…

Finland has begun erecting a 3km-long pilot stretch of its planned barbed-wire-topped fence along its border with Russia. Ground preparation began on 28 February and work on the pilot stretch…

Hungary and Russia have reached a new agreement to add two VVER-1200 reactors to the Paks nuclear power plant, the Budapest Business Journal reports. The agreement modifies the original contract…

Russia’s state-owned nuclear engineer Rosatom has received permission from Egypt’s nuclear regulator to build a third reactor at the El Dabaa site on the Mediterranean coast, World Nuclear News reports. …

A railway bridge between China and Russia over the Amur river in southeast Siberia was approved last week, website RailFreight.com reports. The bridge will connect the city of Mohe in…

Russia’s deputy prime minister has said the construction of two gas pipelines from Russia to China will attract up to $94bn in direct investment, news agency TASS reports. Writing in…

China’s investment in its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) held steady at $68bn last year, according to a report by Shanghai’s Fudan University, but it has changed where it’s spending…

Iran, Russia, and Azerbaijan have agreed to establish a rail link through their countries giving Iran a direct rail connection to northern Europe, the Mehr news agency reports. Iran’s deputy…

EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen today said the EU could seize €300bn of Russian Central Bank reserves and use it to rebuild Ukraine. A further €19bn of Russian…

Russian shelling over Saturday and Sunday resulted in 12 direct hits on structures at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), Ukraine’s nuclear power company Energoatom said yesterday. Experts from the…

Russian nuclear engineer Rosatom poured the first concrete on Saturday (19 November) for the second reactor at Egypt’s El-Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant, the country’s first. Egypt’s energy minister Mohamed Shaker…

Forty percent of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure has been damaged by Russian missiles and drones following Russian defeats on the battlefield, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, calling the attacks “Russia’s…

As Ukraine’s allies work out how to coordinate an eventual reconstruction of the country, the cost of the damage inflicted by Russian forces on its buildings and infrastructure stood at…

Swiss cement giant Holcim this week said it would exit the Russian market “in line with the company’s values to operate in the most responsible manner”.

Architect Foster + Partners and consultant Turner & Townsend have become the latest UK built environment firms to halt work on projects in Russia. Others to have announced pull-outs in…