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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.
Naftan wants to upgrade base oil production at its refinery in Novopolotsk, Belarus, by increasing output of API Group I …
A year after its initial implementation, the European Union has extended for six more months its duty and 200,000 metric …
A December survey of lubricant suppliers in Russia showed their outlook on their business took a downturn from September …
For the lubricants industry in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 2020 was dominated by the impacts of the COVID-19 pan …
A small API Group I base oil rerefinery opened last week in Amur Oblast in the Russian Far East, the region’s governme …
Russia base oil exports are expected to drop 12% this year, a European trader forecasts, because of a drop in demand cau …
Shell, Lukoil and ExxonMobil remained the most popular motor oil brands in Russia in 2020, as they were two years ago, a …
The government of a sparsely populated Russian district is promoting development of a tiny waste oil rerefinery as part …
Russian oil major Tatneft’s Taneco refinery overhauled several units as part of a project aimed at enabling it to mak …
Gazpromneft-Lubricants has taken control of and plans to expand NIS’s blending plant in Novi Sad, Serbia, to boost its …
Ukraine has added a layer to its border control of base oil and lubricant imports in an effort to curb the illegal mixin …
Gazprom Neft is continuing with a project to add API Group II and III capacity to it refinery in Omsk, Russia, but the s …
In effect since the start of the year, the International Marine Organization’s 2020 international convention was impl …
Russia’s finished lubricant demand will decline 4% to 1.64 million tons in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic’s n …
Russia last week relaxed a ban on exports of base oils, lubricants and other petroleum products to Ukraine, stepping bac …
An increasing number of Russian lubricant market participants report that demand is rebounding from the impacts of the C …
The co-owners of lubricant marketer Prista Oil have been charged by Bulgarian authorities with waste mismanagement and c …
Lukoil’s LLK International and Total’s subsidiary in Russia both suffered setbacks due to the country’s COVID-19 l …