The company expects eastbound coal shipments will remain actually flat next year and amount to 117 mln metric tons.

Dmitry Peskov said that all the grounds are in place that the plant will be launched in the near future.

It is important to ensure the development of a promising Arctic transport corridor from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok, the Russian president said.

For this purpose, Russia plans to reconstruct buildings transferring them into tourist facilities, to develop routes and direct communication.

The Russian deputy minister noted that no talks on arranging such production were currently underway so far.

In monthly terms, consumer prices gained 0.5%.

Electricity exports to Mongolia reached 13% of Inter RAO’s total volume, amounting to 700 mln kWh.

The trade turnover of Russia contracted by 3.23% year on year to $503.9 bln.

Consumer prices in Russia edged up by 0.06% from early November and by 5.23% year-to-date.

"Let us hope that the IAEA will not stop and will continue acting as an authoritative international agency overseeing the security of peaceful uses of nuclear energy should," Alexander Uvarov, director of Atominto-ccenter, said.