Aluminum mogul Oleg Deripaska will buy a 30 percent stake in Austrian builder Strabag for 1.2 billion euros ($1.6 billion), boosting the clout of Europe’s fifth-largest builder in Russia.
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April 27, 2007Official from the Russian Economy Ministry told reporters on Wednesday, April 18, that Russia plans to build the world’s longest tunnel, a transport and pipeline link under the Bering Strait to Alaska, as part of a $65 billion project to supply the U.S. with oil, natural gas and electricity from Siberia.
Popularity: 7% [?]
April 19, 2007
U.S.-based corporation Westinghouse Electric Company has won $8 billion international tender for construction of four new nuclear power plants in China.
Popularity: 7% [?]
December 20, 2006A Russian engineering battalion is returning home after a two-month friendly mission to Beirut. An Il-760 plane will airlift the first group of Russian engineers from the Rafik Hariri international airport to the Chkalov airfield near Moscow .
Popularity: 4% [?]
December 7, 2006Metalloinvest, the Russian steel and iron ore company controlled by billionaire Alisher Usmanov, plans to invest AED 572 million (about $156 million) building a steel rolling plant in the United Arab Emirates, the company said on Wednesday.
Popularity: 6% [?]
A Dubai-based developer said it plans to build a new Russian city on 18,000 hectares near Moscow.
Popularity: 5% [?]
December 4, 2006A new reinforced concrete bridge over the Argun River, the border between the two countries in northeast China was completed and put into service on Wednesday.
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November 29, 2006
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