JSC Russian Railways (JSC RZhD) is a Russian vertically integrated company, both managing infrastructure and operating freight and passenger train services. In 2012 it became one of the three largest transport companies in the world. The company was established on September 18, 2003, when a decree was passed to separate the railways from the Russian Ministry of the Means of Communication (MPS) (1992-2004, dissolved).
According to the 2011 JSC RZD Annual Report: the company plans to invest over 2.2 trillion rubles (about 70 billion dollars) until 2020 to upgrade and expand the network infrastructure (without high-speed and high-speed projects). Seven priority infrastructure development projects were allocated. These are approaches to the ports of the South of Russia, an approach to the ports of the North-West Russia, infrastructure in Western Siberia, and north of the Urals Federal District, Trans-Siberian Railway, Baikal-Amur Mainline, Mezhdurechensk, Abakan – Taishet station, the Moscow railway hub. The company recognizes that it has not sufficient funding for the major projects planned, and the cost of borrowing in the bond market does not allow to implement infrastructure projects with positive financial results and return on investment.
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Rostec head allegedly lobbied the career of Anton Vaino.
Russian Railways have paid premiums for three years to both current and former members of its board. Among them was also the former head of the company, Vladimir Yakunin.
Oleg Belozerov earned 86.2 million rubles in 2015; his predecessor, Vladimir Yakunin, never published such information.
How the construction project of the century in Siberia and companies from the British Virgin Islands are intetangled.
The media received from the head of TASS an urgent demand to pay him 1 million rubles
British The Sunday Times of London reported about a mansion, which is owned by the son of Vladimir Yakunin, the former head of Russian Railways. Representatives of Andrey Yakunin confirmed to RBC, that he owns this property
The banker's wealth does not exceed $200 million, and he is unlikely to return to the list of billionaires.
Well-known PR man Sergey Mikhailov made good profit on the budgets of Russian Railways.
Arkady Rotenberg's family might become interested in Russian Railways' billions.
The order book of Igor Chaika's companies exceeds 300 billion rubles.
Why the change in leadership of Russian Railways will not make the natural monopoly "closer to the people"
Over 12 years of Vladimir Yakunin's work in Russian Railways, his son Andrey has become a major employer: his VIY Management fund manages assets worth $400 million. RBC recalls which of VIYM projects can be linked to Russian Railways.
Resignation of the undisputed head of RAO Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin in addition to the political component has a concrete economic part. First of all, for companies which previously siphoned money from the budgets of the state corporation. Among those who may soon lose the nourishing fiscal feeder is communication agency iMars Group, which got hundreds of millions of rubles annually on lavish PR-orders from Russian Railways
RBC studied the watches of Russian politicians and heads of state-owned companies. The most expensive ones belong to Ramzan Kadyrov. Vladimir Yakunin owns luxury watches and gives them to the others: his gift could be found on Sergey Naryshkin's arm.
iMars Communication Group has found a gold mine in the advertising and PR-budgets of the Russian railway monopoly, Russian Railways. The unprecedented success of the group that received orders on hundreds of millions of rubles from the state company solely in 2014, having the first place among the contractors that won the tenders, have attracted media attention.
Russian Railways' President in an interview to Die Welt and Forbes talks about the reaction of the Western businesses to sanctions, the dangers of privatization, Ukrainian risks and Putin as a cementing factor.
The tenders are often arranged so that to be won by a particular contractor.
As clarified by RBC, the main owner of the Laysa company, which received a 15-year contract for the sale of all advertising of Russian Railways, was Vitaly Krivenko, Deputy Head of Corporate Communications of RussianRailways.
The desire to please the customers and sanctions help the Chinese telecom giant to oust the Western competitors from the Russian market. How successful will be the expansion of Huawei?
The head of Russian Railways will extend his contract for three years.
The state monopoly has approved the sale of 25% of Aeroexpress having spent 46 billion rubles on its development. Why sell an asset with the value increased ten times?
The foundation founded by the son of the president of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, bought a stake in the production of centrifugal cast pipes, which are used in metallurgy.