Staff Writer - Boris is a staff writer focused on Eastern Europe, Russia and the ex-Soviet lubricant industry. Prior to joining Lubes’n’Greases in 2010, Boris was a Russia-based reporter for several Macedonian news outlets. He had a 16-month stint as a business reporter for The St. Petersburg Times and contributed analyses to an English-language outlet of RIA Novosti, a Russian state news agency. Boris often travels to St. Petersburg, Washington, D.C. and Skopje. Recently, he has also begun a part-time engagement as a foreign correspondent for North Macedonia’s state news agency, MIA.
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Bosnian base oil and lubricant producer Rafinarija Ulja Modrica ended the first half of this year with a net loss of 1.1 …
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Russia imported 282,000 tons of motor oils in 2022, and more than half of that was shipped from Asia, according to a new …
Exorbitant prices for car parts and accessories are discouraging Russian motorists from visiting large stations for serv …
Shell will start to offering sustainable aviation lubricants.
The Eurasian Economic Union of former Soviet republics updated its technical regulation for lubricants, oils and special …
Russia imported 227,000 passenger cars in the first half of 2023 – more than tripling the amount in the same period la …
A public-private partnership to build a rerefinery capable of producing base oils was announced recently during an event …
Additech, a lubricant additive joint venture between the Russian and Belarus oil majors Lukoil and Naftan, expanded its …
After it sold a refinery in Italy, a Romanian official speculated recently that Russian oil major Lukoil could sell its …
Russia’s only polyalphaolefins complex now can also produce polyalkylene glycols and complex esters, after completing …
A Russian motorist group complained to the central government last week that the country faces a growing shortage of aut …
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