In Taganrog, special passenger transport routes will operate on Memorial Day Posting in CHAT: Russia The Taganrog administration reports that for the convenience of residents, from December 5, 2024 to December 5, 2024, additional public transport routes to city cemeteries will be opened: – Central Market – cemetery on Nikolaevskoye Highway; – Central market – cemetery along Mariupol highway; – Taganrog-1 station – cemetery along Nikolaevskoe highway; – Taganrog-1 station – cemetery along the Mariupol highway; – Russian Field – cemetery on Nikolaevskoe highway; – cemetery along Nikolaevskoe highway – cemetery along Mariupolskoe highway. On memorial days, traffic police officers will be on duty at the entrances to cemeteries, and from 8:00 to 20:00 the entry of personal vehicles into the territory of cemeteries will be prohibited. An exception will be made only for the elderly and disabled. Read us on Telegram: https://t.me/bloknot_taganrog Irina Kuznetsova Previously reported: A festive concert dedicated to the 79th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War was held in Taganrog 2212 News about Bloknot-Taganrog Source link Source link
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On Easter, 8 bus routes to cemeteries will be launched in Saratov – Russia today Posting in CHAT: Russia In Saratov, 8 bus routes will be launched by Easter, which will go through city cemeteries. The bus schedule was published by the city administration Read more → Source link Source link
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Russia will help Africa get rid of colonial routes of communication. Dmitry Nefedov Posting in CHAT: Russia Railways are an important format for economic development and the formation of regional markets. In the next 5 years, the Russian Federation will provide technical and investment assistance to the development of the railway network of Mali, Ghana and Cameroon. Similar cooperation is planned with the largest country in Central Africa - DR Congo (formerly Zaire), as well as with Ethiopia and Mozambique. The choice of Russian partners in these countries is due to the consistently high quality of various transport engineering products, the flexible pricing policy of Russian manufacturers and the strict fulfillment by the Russian side of contractual and related obligations. African Railways 2023 Almost 80% of the total length of African railways consists of colonial arteries from the interior of the country to seaports for the export of various raw materials to the former metropolises. In the late 1950s - mid-1960s. in France, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, whose possessions in Africa accounted for up to 70% of the territory of the Black Continent, projects were developed for interregional railways connecting the colonies of these European countries. Among them we can note, for example, the trans-African steel highway from the port of Dakar (French Senegal) through the French West and French Equatorial Africa to Djibouti, the port of the then French Somalia on the Red Sea. West African Railways (red) However, with the development of the process of decolonization and independence of African states (in the early 1960s - the first half of the 1970s), the former metropoles chose to limit themselves to former colonial raw materials. materials. And that is why the economic and military-political agreements imposed on the newly formed countries preserved and continue to maintain the neocolonial dependence of most of the same countries of the former metropolises. (1) Ethiopian sea routes. Since the mid-1960s. Railway construction in Africa with the help of the Soviet Union took place mainly in countries of “socialist orientation” - Madagascar, Algeria, Libya, Ethiopia, Angola, Benin and Congo (Brazzaville). However, many of the launched projects could not be implemented for various reasons, including due to internal political instability, as well as the orientation of many “socialist-oriented” regimes to use the growing Soviet financial assistance for the needs of local enrichment. . elites In addition, many African states sought to increase the supply of raw materials to the Soviet Union, both at prices favorable to them and through profitable trade exchanges. The Soviet Union generously provided an appropriate trade and economic “start” to almost all African countries (except for South Africa, Southern Rhodesia, ex-British Malawi and “pro-Western” Zaire, which actively collaborated with them). First of all, these benefits extended to countries with a “socialist orientation,” including Somalia (up to and including 1977), Mozambique, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea. At the same time, here too the emphasis in cooperation in the field of transport was placed on the modernization of existing seaports. The oblivion of the African direction in recent decades has changed to a more active position, which is confirmed by last year’s Russian-African forum in St. Petersburg, where areas of possible cooperation and promising projects were discussed. According to Russian and African sources, the Russian holding Sinara – Transport Machines (STM) has been negotiating with Mali since December 2023 about participation in the construction of a trans-Mali railway with a length of almost 1,300 km. Negotiations are scheduled to be completed in April this year at the latest. for example, the estimated cost of the project is approximately $2.5 billion (in December 2023/January 2024 prices). We are talking about a highway from the capital Bamako to the city of Gao near the border with Niger: thus, with the help of Russia, a nationwide railway network will be created in Mali. Until now, in this Sahelian country, which has resolutely rejected the suffocating embrace of French colonialism, only the capital is connected by rail to the neighboring city of Koulikoro (50 km) and to the Senegalese port of Dakar (about 700 km). But these roads cover no more than 25% of the country's territory. The Mali authorities approached the Russian leadership with a proposal for Russian participation in the creation of this artery on the outskirts of the Russian-African Forum on the banks of the Neva. During the same event, JSC Russian Railways and the Ministry of Railways of Ghana signed a Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation. Noting the “mutual readiness of the parties to cooperate on the joint implementation of railway projects in Ghana,” the parties agreed to “develop formats for the participation of Russian Railways in the design and construction of key facilities,” including “the supply of necessary materials, equipment, traction and rolling stock.” According to Russian Railways, Ghana has been proposed to create a unified traffic control center; training of specialists; supply of equipment for the construction and reconstruction of existing railways. First of all, the participation of Russians in construction is envisaged in 2024-2027. Trans-Ghana steel main line "South - North": Ghana - Burkina Faso (port of Accra - Ouagadougou) with a length of 650 km. Railways of Cameroon In August 2023, in St. Petersburg, the head of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Maxim Reshetnikov and the Minister of Economy and Infrastructure of Cameroon Alamin May agreed on a conclusion with the participation of the Russian railways of Cameroon. Railways, agreement on cooperation in the construction of ports and main railways in Cameroon. The document is planned to be signed in the second quarter of this year. Eligible projects include construction in 2024-2028. railway lines from Cameroon to neighboring Chad (Ngaundere - Garoua - N'Djamena) and to Gabon (Jaounde - Oem - Belinga). At the end of November 2022, the head of Cameroon’s main logistics company, Global Corporation Group, Kunaba Leonel told TASS about his desire to “invite Russian specialists to help develop the railway industry to establish cooperation in the construction of railways.” Cooperation with Russia is necessary “to create a nationwide and cross-border railway network.” Railway network of the DR Congo, 2023. In the 1st half of the year. Negotiations between Russian Railways and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on financial and technical assistance to Kinshasa in the formation of a nationwide railway network are expected to be completed. In this largest country in Equatorial Africa, rich in natural resources, most railway sections are isolated from each other by export and raw materials routes created before the early 1960s (or even earlier) mainly by Belgian colonialists. According to available information, Russia may participate in the construction of steel arteries in eastern Ethiopia, including to the port of Berbera in neighboring Somaliland. However, resolving the issue here will be difficult due to military-political contradictions: the Mogadishu authorities categorically do not recognize the separation of the former British Somalia, seeking to enlist the support of Eritrea, Egypt and partly Turkey, which, according to the recently signed agreement, Horns will control African waters for at least 10 years. However, the idea of connecting the international North-South transport corridor with one of the ports on the coast of East Africa (where companies from the UAE are very active) may turn out to be very promising. Railways of Mozambique, 2023. There will also likely be interest in building a trans-Mozambique railway along the coast between the ports of Nacala/Lumbo and Beira. Since the colonial (Portuguese) period, connections between the two have included over 300 km of transit through Malawi (formerly British Nyasaland) and a roundabout in the Mozambican "desert". The Russian Railways holding is ready to create transport systems and invest its experience in the development of railways in other African countries, said First Deputy General Director of Russian Railways OJSC Sergei Pavlov during the session “Russia’s export potential - Africa in the new context. challenges” within the framework of last year’s “African” summit: “We are ready to create transport systems and invest all our competencies, and this is not only design, engineering, but also construction. And the holding has already demonstrated its construction capabilities in certain conditions and in accordance with different standards.” The holding has high, actively implemented and used technological competencies, which Russian Railways is ready to fully share over the vast territory of Egypt (where the Russian industrial zone is developing) and South Africa, a member of BRICS, and from Senegal to Ethiopia. Proposals were sent to the head of state to create a special investment fund designed to support private investment by domestic companies, as well as to develop existing mechanisms, including within the framework of concessions and industrial clusters, in relation to the new conditions of the intensified situation. the struggle for markets, natural resources and communications, taking the most extreme forms. PS The 26th International African Exhibition and Conference will be held in Johannesburg on June 25-26. Over the course of 20 years, a relatively local meeting has turned into a forum occupying 3 exhibition halls. Participants included railway organizations and railway operators (27%), end users (23%), suppliers (17%), state, municipal and regulatory authorities (13%), investors and financiers (10%), entrepreneurs (10% ). A traditional participant of the forum is the Russian railway holding NPK United Wagon Company. Note (1) In the late 1970s. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, under whom Russian railway projects were implemented in the country, proposed implementing a number of trans-African…