PJSC LUKOIL has become the Gold Sponsor of the 6th Future Leaders Forum of the World Petroleum Council. The agreement establishing the terms of cooperation has been signed between the Company and the Russian National Committee of the World Petroleum Council.

Leonid Weisberg, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Research and Engineering Corporation "Mekhanobr-Tekhnika" and also the Member of the Academy of Sciences, underlined the importance of inclusion of "The Journal of the Mining Institute" in the international database Scopus. Leonid Weisberg also gave his comments and provided his opinion on what it means for the scientific community.

As a part of the Russian-British Raw Materials Dialogue, a business session was held in Saint-Petersburg Mining University. Executives and specialists from both countries attended the meeting to participate in a discussion mainly relating to future outlook for trade and investment cooperation between our countries.

The trend is clear. With each year, more and more foreigners choose to commence their studies in Russia.

The scientists from Saint-Petersburg Mining University hammered out and patented a new invention – a method of magnetic-abrasive polishing taps, which are used for threading.

This autumn over 350 students from as many as 29 countries will commence their studies at either pre-university courses or at Bachelor’s, Specialist’s and Master’s Degree Programmes.

PhosAgro CEO Andrey Guryev noted that the cooperation between Orica and PhosAgro is a very good example of direct investment by foreign corporations in Russia and the kind of partnership that Russian and foreign companies can achieve:

It is essential to recreate specialist’s degree programmes at the universities so as to prepare and train new engineers.

Bwana Mulenga is a person of extraordinary popularity in the presidential republic of Uganda. Everybody knows his name there, which comes as no surprise, for he is an owner of a few telecommunications corporations at southwest of the country and in South Sudan.

“German-Russian Raw Materials Dialogue on River Saar” conference held in Völklinger Hutte old factory building started on thursday, the 14th of June, in town of Völklingen, Germany.