Novak cited Nigeria as a promising partner for Russia in Africa, saying, “Our joint work within OPEC+ renders a decisive contribution to ensuring stability and predictability of the global oil market.

According to Pei Zhaoyu, the chief engineer of China’s Chang’e-8 mission, China and Russia are planning to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon to power the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), a project they are developing together starting with the Chang’e-8 mission.

During the visit, the Malaysian delegation were shown Rosatom’s technologies at the Leningrad NPP and also visited the Atom Museum which shows the historical development of the Russia’s nuclear industry.

Vietnam approved an atomic power development plan in February, following a non-binding agreement on nuclear energy cooperation signed with Russia the month prior.

Africa’s population is expected to exceed 1 billion in the coming decades, positioning the continent as a major consumer of energy in the long term.

The BRICS energy alliance has launched a coordinated system of Petro-Yuan (Chinese RMB Yuan currency) oil contracts that directly challenges US dollar dominance in global energy markets.

"Thus, Rosatom was identified as the leader of the international consortium for the project to build the first nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan."

Hungary and Slovakia decided to block the sanctions package in response to European Union plans to phase out Russian energy imports, the minister said.

In view of a steady global economic outlook and current healthy market fundamentals, as reflected in the low oil inventories, and in accordance with the decision agreed upon on 5 December 2024 to start a gradual and flexible return of the 2.2 million barrels per day voluntary adjustments starting from 1 April 2025, the eight participating countries will implement a production adjustment of 411 thousand barrels per day in July 2025 from June 2025 required production level.

Gazprom launched supplies via the Power of Siberia pipeline in 2019 under a long-term agreement between Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), and supplies have been exceeding annual contractual obligations every year since 2020.

Türkiye is the only transit route left for Russian gas to Europe after Ukraine chose not to extend a five-year transit deal with Moscow when it expired on January 1.

“It’s time to stop this Brussels plan to support Ukraine while increasing the utility bills of Hungarian families several times over,”

Russia’s nuclear industry today is a powerful complex of more than 580 enterprises located throughout the country – from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka.

The Indonesian government has also announced plans to build a 250 MWe on-grid nuclear power facility, initially targeted for operation by 2032 but now being fast-tracked for completion by 2029.

The European Commission will next month propose legal measures to phase out the EU's imports of all Russian gas and liquefied natural gas by the end of 2027, the EU executive said earlier in May.