World leaders will submit pre-recorded video statements for the United Nations General Assembly session in September, the 193-member organisation has decided, as heads of state and government will not be physically attending the annual gathering due to the coronavirus pandemic and the high-level session goes virtual for the first time in the U.N.’s 75-year history.
23/07/2020Read more
The first of 163 nuclear fuel assemblies has been loaded into the VVER-1200 reactor of power unit 2 of Leningrad NPP-2. Fuel loading marks the beginning of the physical start-up of an NPP. The plant is operated by Rosatom’s Electric Power Division Rosenergoatom.
20/07/2020Read more
Following the results of the first day of the summit in Brussels, the heads of state and government of the European Union could not agree on the formation of a seven-year budget plan for 2021-2027 and a fund for the recovery of the community economy after the pandemic, Euronews reports.
18/07/2020Read more
The Eurasian Intergovernmental Council at a meeting in Minsk today approved a comprehensive plan of measures in the field of health and sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the Eurasian Economic Union, BelTA learned from the press service of the Eurasian Economic Commission.
17/07/2020Read more
President of France Emmanuel Macron has named Jean Castex, who coordinated France’s virus reopening strategy, as the country’s new prime minister.
04/07/2020Read more
Sony held an annual meeting of shareholders, following which it was decided to change the name of the company. Since 2021, according to the Gizchina portal, Sony will be called the “Sony Group”.
03/07/2020Read more
In line with the schedule, on 30 June 2020 the customer of the Paks II Nuclear Power Plant, Paks II. Ltd. submitted the implementation license application for the two new VVER-1200 3+ generation nuclear power plant units in Paks to the Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority (HAEA).
01/07/2020Read more
The European Commission has collected more than 6 billion euros as part of a charity marathon on Saturday. Fundraising for testing, medical supplies and vaccine development was announced by the European Union in early May. The total amount of donations collected reaches 16 billion euros, but this is not enough.
28/06/2020Read more
Preparations are now underway in Russia to build new power units in the Leningrad and Smolensk Regions. The corresponding decision was signed by Alexey Likhachev, Rosatom State Atomic Corporation Director General.
26/06/2020Read more
In early 2020, in the midst of an outbreak of coronavirus infection (COVID-19) in the Central Asian region, poverty reduction progress suddenly stopped, and the opposite trend is currently observed. The region faces a serious threat due to an unprecedented drop in oil and natural gas prices, large-scale disruptions in the services sector, a sharp drop in income from remittances from labor migrants and the most negative outlook for the development of the global economy over the past few decades.
25/06/2020Read more
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