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The company South Stream Transport B.V. and company " Siemens AG " concluded a contract for the supply of electrical systems and instrumentation for the off-shore gas pipeline "South Stream" . In accordance with it,  " Siemens " will deliver telecommunications equipment and automatic control systems and control landfalls in Russia and Bulgaria, as well as equipment for the Centra of South Stream Transport.

Siemens receives an order from TenneT for an offshore wind farm grid connection in the North Sea. In a consortium with Petrofac Siemens will supply the complete technology for efficient direct-current transmission for the BorWin3 grid connection as the consortium leader. The consortium partner Petrofac, with over 30 years of experience as a leading EPC contractor to the international oil and gas industry, will be responsible for the construction and offshore installation of the project's platform. Supply and laying of the cables was tendered separately by TenneT and is therefore not part of the consortium's scope of supply.

Moscow Power Engineering Institute has entered the top ten best universities of the CIS countries . In the ranking, prepared by RA "Expert" , NIU MEI took the seventh position.

At the 220 kV Mogocha substation, the branch of JSC " FGC UES " (included in the group of companies of " Rossetti ") - Trunk Power Grids ( MEA ) of Siberia - in the period from December 2013 to March 2014 , the installation and testing of equipment STATCOM -1 was performed: Cooling System of voltage converter , filter- , battery static capacitors , voltage converter .

The Products of JSC "Tomskcable " successfully passed the certification procedure in the system of voluntary certification GAZPROMSERT in March 2014.

GE (NYSE: GE) and JSC " NK" Rosneft " , one of the leading oil companies in the world , signed an agreement on the establishment of joint ventures aimed at expanding scientific and technical cooperation between the two companies . The Agreement provides the first stage of the creation of two specialized centers : applied engineering and training center , as well as research centers.

The Ministry of Mass Communications of the Russian Federation plans to open five new industrial parks in the regions of Russia until the end of 2014 . Industrial parks will be built under the program «Creation of the technology parks in the Russian Federation in the sphere of high technologies", which involves co-financing of the construction of industrial parks by the RF federal budget. Action program is terminated in 2014 , however, the regions that have received subsidies , should achieve high performance within a few years after the completion of the program. Thus, by 2018 they should be loaded at least 90%.

During the first two months of this year 32 new enterprises were opened in Russia.

On 6 and 7 February 2014 at the Training Center in the Moscow office of ABB in Russia a meeting with representatives of the leadership of leading national technical universities was held. The event was attended by representatives of the Novosibirsk State Technical University ( NSTU) , the South-Russian State University ( SRSTU ) , St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University ( STU ) and the National Research University Moscow Power Engineering Institute ( MEI NRU ).

In late February, a meeting of suppliers of electrical products was held in Moscow CEOs. Meeting was a landmark event for the Russian electrotechnical market as its main purpose was to develop a joint strategy to combat corruption in the industry and to identify mechanisms of fair competition.