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Vladimir Pilyushin: The jewelry market is not stand-alone and moves by the same laws as other markets
Vladimir Pilyushin is editor-in-chief of Russian Jeweler, a leading magazine about the jewelry industry in Russia. He told Rough&Polished about his view on the evolution of the jewelry industry in Russia and touched upon some of its problems.
16 september 2024
Sarine’s David Block: Diamond Industry at Standstill Until Chinese Demand Returns
David Block is CEO of Israel’s Sarine Technologies and has served in the position since 2012. In this exclusive interview for Rough and Polished, Block gives his opinion on the leading issues affecting today’s diamond trade.
11 september 2024
Dr M'zée Fula Ngenge: Demand for considerable-sized diamonds stronger than ever
The African Diamond Council (ADC) chairperson Dr M'zée Fula Ngenge told Rough & Polished’s Mathew Nyaungwa in an exclusive interview that although overall global diamond prices have been somewhat soft, the demand for considerable-sized diamonds...
02 september 2024
Amplats sees prospects as a standalone company
Anglo has revealed its plans to demerge Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), which has operations in South Africa and Zimbabwe, to optimise shareholder value. Rough&Polished contacted Amplats to comment on this and other issues but was referred...
19 august 2024
WFDB President Yoram Dvash Remains Confident Despite Global Diamond Challenges
Yoram Dvash is President of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) having been elected in 2020. He found time in his busy schedule to speak to Rough&Polished about the state of the diamond industry around the world and some of the major...
12 august 2024
A record temperature of +28.8 °C recorded in the Arctic
17 july 2023
A new record high temperature of +28.8 °C was recorded in the area of the Slettnes lighthouse, russian.rt.com reports with reference to Norwegian meteorologists.
Rosneft started scientific research at the Eastern Arctic continental shelf
14 july 2023
Rosneft launched a research expedition from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky port, the purpose of which is to obtain samples of continental shelf rocks from hard-to-reach and poorly studied regions of the Eastern Arctic.
Full-scale production of Arctic vehicles to start in the Urals in 2025
13 july 2023
The Ural Automobile Plant plans to start full-scale production of vehicles for Arctic conditions at the end of 2025, CEO of the company Pavel Yakovlev was quoted by TASS as saying at the Innoprom International Industrial Exhibition in Yekaterinburg.
Four research ships to be built for the Arctic
12 july 2023
The Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation has begun construction of four ships of the 03182P project. They will be involved in complex oceanographic research in the Arctic.
Norilsk airport may start operating around the clock
11 july 2023
Norilsk Airport in the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory plans to switch to a 24-hour work schedule, TASS quotes the city administration as saying in its strategy report.
The "accelerator" of global warming found under the Arctic ice
10 july 2023
Climatologists from European countries and Canada have concluded that groundwater sources in the Arctic contain a lot of methane and, thus, represent a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions.
An ice exploration complex for the Northern Sea Route tested in the Arctic
07 july 2023
The UAV-based ice reconnaissance complex has been successfully tested in the Arctic. The uniqueness of the tests is that the drone took off and landed on the helicopter pad of a drifting nuclear icebreaker. This was reported in the Directorate of the Northern Sea Route (NSR).
