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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.
Russian oil major Gazprom Neft claims to have developed a technology for making biodegradable motor oil cartons that bre …
German independent lubricant maker Fuchs Petrolub bought a 28% stake in E-Lyte Innovations GmbH, a start-up that develo …
Tatneft recently started the process of streaming 6 centiStoke API Group III base oil at its Taneco refinery after it fi …
Several foreign lubricant brands – including BP’s Castrol – are disappearing from the Russian market, but others a …
The Torzhok, Russia, lubricant factory that Lukoil bought recently from Shell will produce products to be marketed under …
The war in Ukraine has caused and continues to cause horrendous damage. Among the casualties is a lubricants manufacture …
Russia’s antitrust regulator approved last week Lukoil’s purchase of Shell’s retail and lubricants business in the …
The Biden administration recently gave a $3.1 billion kickstart to domestic electric vehicle battery manufacturing. The …
Oil giant Shell signed an agreement to sell its retail and lubricant businesses in Russia to privately owned Lukoil, the …
The European Union announced last week firm plans to impose an embargo on Russian oil and refined products, including ba …
German lubricant maker Fuchs Petrolub SE posted a first-quarter 6% decline in earnings after tax and a 16% increase in s …
The winding down of foreign lubricant producers’ operations, the devaluation of the ruble and logistics problems creat …
After a pandemic-induced recession in 2020, lubricant demand in Poland rebounded last year as passenger cars returned to …
Seven weeks into Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the number of foreign businesses vowing to leave Russia or scal …
The effective date is approaching for a European Union ban on purchases from government-controlled Russian oil companies …
Charging infrastructure installation is failing to keep pace with electric vehicle growth and could scupper the Europea …
Mol-Lub is expanding its grease factory in Hungary in order to add calcium sulfonate complex greases to its product port …
Lubricant producer Champion Brands LLC was slapped with a $130,243 fee by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) …
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