Ural Mountains News
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Elvira Nabiullina is declining to follow in the footsteps of Mark Carney and Haruhiko Kuroda and become an agent of change at Russia’s central bank.
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The last time a disaster with global impact struck Chelyabinsk, officials covered it up for three decades. This time, they’re marketing it to the world.
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A meteor exploded in the skies above Russia’s Ural Mountains, sending shock waves that broke windows, injuring people across the area hours before an asteroid half the size of a football field was due to pass the Earth.
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The twin punch of a meteor raining destruction on remote Russia and an asteroid hurtling past Earth prompted calls from scientists and political leaders for greater vigilance to combat risks from the heavens.
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The meteor explosion above Chelyabinsk this month changed the “perceptions of life” for 26 percent of the Russian city’s residents, a poll showed.
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Russian Nanotechnologies Corp. may invest 2.65 billion rubles ($94 million) in magnesium production in the Sverdlovsk region of the Urals, Kommersant reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter.
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A meteor that exploded in the skies above Russia’s Ural Mountains was the largest since the Tunguska blast in Siberia in 1908 and released about 33 times the energy of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
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Now that BP Plc has joined with Russia’s Vladimir Putin to oversee the world’s second-biggest oil industry, other international energy companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp. and Royal Dutch Shell Plc are facing dwindling access to one of the last untapped troves of crude.
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More agricultural regions in Russia declared emergencies because of a drought, Interfax reported.
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Mitsui & Co. and Sumitomo Corp. are interested in Siberian rare-earth deposits that weren’t expected to be mined until 2030 as Russia tries to fill the gap left when China slashed exports, Yakutia Governor Yegor Borisov said.
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