News archive on the topic "Siemens"

A large German concern announced its withdrawal from the Russian market, beginning the procedure for terminating its operating and production activities. According to the head of the concern, Roland Bush, the departure is related to Western sanctions against Russia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Bush, international sanctions, as well as current and potential countermeasures, affect the company’s activities in Russia, in particular...

Russia began independent production of high-power turbines, similar to those that it had to scandalously purchase for Crimean thermal power plants from the German Siemens in 2014. This was reported by the Metal Supply and Sales publication, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The Power Machines company has completed the production of the first set of rotor disks for the GTE-170 gas turbine. To carry out this stage of work, the company purchased new equipment...

Power Machines is leaving a joint venture with Siemens, which was created for the “screwdriver assembly” of German turbines and work on the Russian market. After selling a 35% stake, Power Machines plans to make a Russian-made gas turbine and will become competitors with Siemens for participation in the modernization of power plants in the Russian Federation. The Kommersant newspaper writes about this today. The publication also reminds…

Russia can establish independent production of an analogue of Siemens turbines, the supply of which for new power plants in Crimea previously caused a scandal due to circumvention of the sanctions regime imposed by the West. The Kommersant newspaper reports today that 100% localization of the assembly of Siemens SGT-2000-E turbines (power 187 MW) should be carried out by 2025 in Tatarstan. Now the level of localization of such machines in the Russian Federation is 60%, they...

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation refused to consider Siemens’ cassation appeal against the decision in the case of re-supply of gas turbines from the German concern to Crimea by Rostec structures. This was reported by the Russian publication Kommersant, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. It is noted that the decision not to transfer the case to the judicial panel of the Supreme Court for economic disputes was made on October 15. The lawsuit sought the return of four gas turbines manufactured by...

The Ukrainian special services were asked to put the famous German company Siemens on the hook. Military expert of the Institute of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation Igor Koziy stated this on air on the 112 Ukraine TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the expert, Siemens can steal secret data on new Ukrainian military developments, such as, for example, the Bogdan self-propelled howitzer. “Unfortunately, today we can play with some...

The scandalous Siemens turbines supplied to two Crimean thermal power plants (TPPs) were developed in the USSR and, among other technological innovations, were transferred to the West. Economist Mikhail Khazin stated this on the radio “Moscow Speaks”. “Maybe someone doesn’t know, but the notorious turbines that were delivered to Crimea by the Germans were developed in the USSR in the late 80s...

Official Kyiv must create new obstacles to the launch of new thermal power plants that Russia is building in Crimea to ensure the energy independence of the peninsula from Ukraine. The leader of the Mejlis banned in the Russian Federation, Refat Chubarov, stated this in the session hall of the Verkhovna Rada, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “With the stop of electricity supplies to the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea on January 1, 2016, we achieved multiple...

The German concern Siemens refused to supply equipment to Ukraine to modernize the gas transportation system, so as not to lose the Russian market. This was stated by the head of Naftogaz of Ukraine Andrey Kobolev at the Yalta European Strategy forum, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte According to Kobolev, after the first Siemens compressor systems were delivered, the company announced that if it continues...

The German company Siemens is not going to curtail cooperation with Russia and is proposing new investment projects in the Russian Federation, Kommersant reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte The publication notes that so far the most serious problems due to anti-Russian sanctions have arisen with the German company Siemens, which in the summer became embroiled in a scandal with the resale of gas turbines by Rostec structures to the sanctioned Crimea. “Siemens demanded...

The scheme used by Rostec for supplying Siemens turbines to Crimea, intended for thermal power plants in Taman, leaves the German company little chance of challenging it in court, writes Kommersant, citing the conclusions of lawyers. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte The publication writes that it has found out a scheme that allowed TPE LLC (part of Rostec) to claim that the turbines for the Tavricheskaya and Balaklava thermal power plants in...

The German company Siemens itself stirred up a scandal surrounding the supply of its turbines to Crimea in order to avoid American sanctions. German political scientist Alexander Rahr stated this during a teleconference with Moscow. “I think that Siemens itself uncovered this scandal with the supply of turbines to Crimea, reported to its subsidiary and went on the offensive to protect itself from...

Accusations against Russia from the Siemens concern regarding the supply of supposedly German-made turbines to Crimea, contrary to sanctions, have not yet found a clear evidentiary framework, writes Alexander Pasechnik, head of the analytical department of the National Energy Security Fund, in Izvestia. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte The author recalls that on July 5, Reuters, citing unnamed sources, reported that German gas...

In Crimea, they will try to independently launch turbines produced by the German company Siemens, which are necessary for the new thermal power plant and got to the peninsula bypassing sanctions, Reuters reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte The publication said that Russian companies do not have the relevant experience, and 10 industry experts told Reuters that launching turbines without the participation of Siemens would be a “tough test of engineering ingenuity.” Wherein…