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| 02/07/2018 12:20 | Russia's Pacific Fleet to Upgrade 4 Nuclear Subs With Supersonic Cruise Missiles By 2021 ( The Diplomat )
As of 2017, only two subs of the classâthe Irkutsk and the Chelyabinskâare being retrofitted at the Zvezda shipyard and the upgrade program has already encounter multiple delays. In 2015, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it will retrofit its entire operational fleet of eight Project 949A ... |
| 02/03/2018 09:35 | Russia's VIM Airlines eyes Aeroflot's money to repay debt ( ch-aviation )
Russia's VIM Airlines eyes Aeroflot's money to repay debt. VIM Airlines Airbus ... IrAero (IO, Irkutsk Int'l) will launch charter flights on behalf of Chinese tour operator U-Tour, connecting Liège via St. Petersburg with a number of cities in China, commencing on April 24, 2018, Aviaton24.be has reported. |
| 02/01/2018 09:20 | Russia's IrAero to launch ops from Liege in early 2Q18 ( ch-aviation )
IrAero (IO, Irkutsk Int'l) will launch charter flights on behalf of Chinese tour operator U-Tour, connecting Liège via St. Petersburg with a number of cities in China, commencing on April 24, 2018, Aviaton24.be has reported. The Russian carrier will connect the city in Wallonia with Fuzhou, Chengdu, ... |
| 01/30/2018 17:25 | Hotel fire in Russia's Irkutsk likely caused by short circuit: authorities ( Xinhua )
Firefighters work at the scene of a fire at a hotel on Olkhon Island in the Irkutsk region, Russia on Jan. 28, 2018. (Photo by Russian Emergencies Ministry). MOSCOW, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- An electrical fault could have been the cause of a Sunday morning fire at a hotel in Russia's Irkutsk region, some ... |
| 01/30/2018 09:40 | Hotel fire in Russia's Irkutsk likely caused by short circuit: authorities ( Xinhua )
MOSCOW, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- An electrical fault could have been the cause of a Sunday morning fire at a hotel in Russia's Irkutsk region, some 4,000 km east of Moscow, which killed two people and injured a few others,authorities said Monday. The fire occurred in a residential two-story house providing ... |
| 01/30/2018 02:30 | Russia Travel and Tourism Market Future Outlook : Investment Trends, Growth and Future Industry ... ( satPRnews (press release) )
Russia Travel and Tourism Market Future Outlook : Investment Trends, Growth and Future Industry Analysis by Regions! ... Places such as Kazan, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, and Vladivostok are emerging as important industrial towns. |
| 01/30/2018 02:30 | Hotel fire kills 2 on Russia's Olkhon Island (Korea Times)
Four Korean tourists injured in Russia - Korea Times |
| 01/26/2018 17:35 | Rostelecom expands internet access in Irkutsk, Omsk to 98.5% ( Telecompaper )
Russian national operator Rostelecom expanded its fibre-optic network in the Irkutsk region in 2017 with 218 km of lines built in the cities and towns of Irkutsk, Angarsk, Bratsk, Tulun, Zima, Tayshet, Cheremkhovo, as well as in other settlements. Some 7,000 households and more than 1,000 corporate ... |
| 01/20/2018 02:55 | Chinese investors eyeing Baikal tourism industry ( Realnoe vremya )
Listvyanka urban locality, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. Photo:Mitya Aleshkovsky. A sudden influx of tourists and investors, an abundance of land sale advertisements in Chinese and a rising number of construction sites bother local residents. According to an online petition signed by 57,000 Russians, 10% of ... |
| 01/11/2018 12:10 | Chinese businesses in Russia promise to hire more locals and help boost their economy ( ecns )
Song, a businessman from Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, visited Lake Baikal in Russia's southern Siberia in January of 2016 at the invitation of a friend. Once there, he not only was impressed by the magnificent landscape but also by the growing number of Chinese tourists arriving ... |
| 01/10/2018 08:20 | ''I have never seen people who take a trip to dig potatoes as a rest'' ( Realnoe vremya )
In it, the owner of a tourist company tells about what is wrong with the domestic tourism in Russia. Realnoe ... In Irkutsk, for example, in 2011 there was built the ''130 quarter'' â a pedestrian street in the city centre with merchant's mansions, recreated from archival sketches of real buildings. In houses ... |
| 01/10/2018 08:20 | Chinese investors pouring into Siberia deny claims they are overtaking Lake Baikal ( Global Times )
Russia also eased its visa requirements for Chinese who are in a tour group of at least three persons, as part of the Belt and Road initiative to boost tourism between the two countries. According to statistics, 43,600 Chinese tourists visited Irkutsk in 2016, up 150 percent from the year before. In the first ... |
| 12/29/2017 11:10 | Russia's IrAero named as MC-21 launch operator ( ch-aviation )
IrAero (IO, Irkutsk Int'l) is considering adding B777-200 capacity to its fleet in the first quarter of 2018, Russian Aviation Insider reported. The privately-owned carrier is reported to be looking into as many as three B777-200s to be added to the fleet in 2018. The new type would allow the airline to expand ... |
| 12/29/2017 11:10 | Beeline launches IPTV in Irkutsk ( Telecompaper )
Russian operator Beeline, controlled by the Veon Group, has started providing IPTV services in the Irkutsk region. Customers using mobile services from the operator are being offered IPTV services for free when connecting to Beeline's 'Everything In One' converged service tariff. Beeline's basic IPTV ... |
| 12/21/2017 08:05 | Russia Activates Three New Anti-Missile Early-Warning Systems Near North Korean Border ( Newsweek )
... radar coverage in its east, as previously only one of its systems, in Irkutsk, was located east of the Ural mountains. Two stations operated in the Leningrad and Kaliningrad regions, while one was based in Krasnodar, near Ukraine. A new radar station is also planned in Russia's high north during 2019. |
| 12/21/2017 08:05 | Three advanced early warning radars enter service in Russia ( TASS )
... in southern Urals. This brings the overall number of Voronezh radars on duty to seven. Until recently, four new Voronezh radars were in operation: near Russia's second largest city of St. Petersburg, in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, East Siberia's Irkutsk region and South Russia's Krasnodar region. |
| 12/20/2017 17:05 | Nina Kraviz Doesn't Care About Your Expectations ( Miami New Times )
She was born and raised not only in Russia, a backwater for international pop music, but also in Irkutsk, in the heart of Siberia. Growing up in the '90s, she stayed up late to listen to outsider dance-music shows on Radio Europa. After moving to Moscow to study dentistry, she began spending time in the ... |
| 12/14/2017 11:15 | French diva Patricia Kaas to give first concert in Moscow in 4 years ( TASS )
The singer's career revolves around perpetual tours, including to Russia. Kaas first visited Russia in 1989 and then returned repeatedly with concerts, performed not only in Moscow and St. Petersburg, but also in Siberian Irkutsk and Tyumen, the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk and Altai's Barnaul. |
| 12/14/2017 01:10 | Russia's IrAero eyes B777s for China flights ( ch-aviation )
In addition, IrAero also operate six An-24s and 13 An-26 aircraft, the latter both in cargo and passenger configuration. While the majority of its eighty-three weekly flights are domestic services in Russia, the airline also flies from Irkutsk Int'l 2x weekly to each of Harbin and Manzhouli, as well as weekly ... |
| 12/10/2017 21:15 | Russia's IrAero gearing up for Boeing 777 operations ( www.rusaviainsider.com )
Irkutsk-based private regional airline IrAero may become Russia's fourth operator of Boeing 777 widebodies next year. The carrier is looking to add several 777-200s to its fleet in order to launch long-haul flights to China, possibly in an attempt to fill the niche left unoccupied following the recent ... |
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