Ed Miliband says move will ease energy price crisis and reduce dependence on Russian gas

A call for collective action could help UK pivot away from dependence on Russian fossil fuels

EU member states have been urged to reduce energy use to ensure they can cope in the event Russia cuts all supplies

Russian Ministry of Energy sees no problem in such imbalance claiming that it will not develop any additional measures for particular support of projects for construction of wind and hydro power plants.

Russia has become the latest company to join hands with India to help the latter achieve its massive solar power targets.

Từ ngày 14 – 16 tháng 12 năm 2015, triển lãm công nghiệp Nga – Việt “Expo-Russia Vietnam 2015” sẽ được tổ chức lần đầu tiên tại Khách sạn Melia ở Hà Nội.

Contemporary art is on the rise in Moscow. Italian architect Renzo Piano was just tapped by Russian arts group V-A-C Foundation to convert one of the city’s former power stations into a center for contemporary arts and culture.

The facade glazing does not go out of date for several decades. Buildings lined with glass have a modern, attractive look and provide unlimited opportunities for self-expression of the architect and the customer, thanks to the selection of glass of different shades, creating facets and an play of reflections.

On June 2, the Russian State Nuclear Energy Corporation (Rosatom) and Vietnam Atomic Energy Agency (Ministry of Science - Technology - MOST) signed a memorandum on cooperation in training of human resources in the field of atomic energy of Vietnam.

According to the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Russian Federation committed to provide Vietnam a preferential credit of $10 billion for Ninh Thuan 1 NPP project. and its related preparation.

In a valiant effort to rethink the ubiquitous refrigerator — which has seen few design changes since the invention of freon refrigerators in the 1930′s — Russian designer Yuriy Dmitriev has unveiled a fresh-looking, gel-filled appliance of the future.

The new proposals are to create a single energy market to help the EU lower prices, improve interconnectivity, move towards a lower carbon future, increase energy efficiency and counteract Russia’s ‘monopoly’ on gas supplies to the continent.

A working group from the Gazprom Neft Group (Russia) recently worked with the Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) on investment cooperation in upgrading the Dung Quat Oil Refinery. Vietnam Economic News’ Kim Hoa spoke with Dinh Van Ngoc, General Director of the Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical Company Limited (BSR) about the project.

Cooperation in energy, especially oil and gas, plays an extremely important role in the developing strategic partnership between Vietnam and Russia , Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has said.

Russia has said it was ready to provide Indonesia with assistance to build its own nuclear power plant. Russian Ambassador to Indonesia Alexander Ivanov said in a press conference Tuesday that the possibility of building a nuclear plant in Indonesia was one of many issues Russia was willing to discuss in the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) later this year.

The two countries' interest in cooperation is quite natural. The Czech Republic is preparing a lucrative tender for the completion of the nuclear power plant Temelin, near the Austrian border, in which the US firm Westinghouse has expressed interest. Westinghouse has a Japanese owner but its seat and operations are in the USA. The project is worth several hundred billion crowns. Besides Westinghouse, the other bidders are Czech-Russian consortium of Skoda JS Atomstroyexport and France's Areva.

Turkish Energy Minister, Taner Yildiz, welcomed the recent progress in Turkey’s first nuclear power plant project that will be built by Russia and underscored Ankara’s determination to develop nuclear energy through foreign partnerships. Yildiz told reporters that Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, signed the inter-governmental agreement, which was recently ratified by both houses of the Russian parliament.

"Ho Chi Minh City currently has partnerships with many localities of the Russian Federation; many cooperative programs and projects between the two sides have been deployed in both Vietnam and Russia. The city always needs the support and cooperation from Russia and Russian localities, especially in the areas in which Russia is one of the leading countries such as science, technology, energy, oil and gas ..." - Mr. Le Minh Tri stressed and expressed the hope that cooperation between the two sides would become increasingly practical and efficient.

At the Vietnam - Russia Intergovernmental session which was held in mid-September, the Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang, and Russian Minister of Industry and Trade V.Khristenko officially signed the Roadmap for the implementation of Vietnam - Russia cooperation projects in energy sector (Energy cooperation roadmap).

The Vietnam Academy of Sciences and Technology (VAST) said that under the cooperation with the Institute of Applied Chemistry under the Russia Science Center, the Institute of Chemistry of Natural Substances under VAST has produced alcohol with ethanol concentration at 99.98 percent and the total content of organic impurities at less than 16ppm, without using chemical agents.