Russian Railways, the state-owned national rail carrier, is one of the world's largest transport companies, enjoying a monopoly over rail transport in Russia.

Since 2007, there has not been any significant mining by the Russian state-owned Arktikugol in Barentsburg.

This entailed removing Soviet-era price controls in order to lure goods back into understocked Russian stores, removing legal barriers to private trade and manufacture, and cutting subsidies to state farms and industries while allowing foreign imports into the Russian market in order to break the power of state-owned local monopolies.

In 2005, a highly-publicized dispute over natural gas prices took place, involving Russian state-owned gas supplier Gazprom, and indirectly involving many European countries which depend on natural gas supplied by Russia through the Ukrainian pipeline.

Since 2007, there has not been any significant mining by the Russian state-owned Arktikugol in Barentsburg.

* Vnesh Econom Bank, the state-owned Russian Development Bank.

Shortly after the Yuganskneftegaz auction, Rosneft, Russian state-owned oil company, acquired 100 % of shares in Baikalfinansgrup.

Since 1932 the Russian state-owned Arktikugol Trust has been operating on Svalbard.

Saint Petersburg State University ( SPbGU, ) is a Russian federal state-owned higher education institution based in Saint Petersburg and one of the oldest and largest universities in Russia.

While virtually an unknown when first appointed, observers of Russian politics argued that Putin rapidly gained popular support due to a hard-line law and order image and the backing of powerful state-owned and state-allied media and economic interests.

In opposition to the coverage on foreign television news channels ( such as CNN and the BBC ), the crisis was not broadcast live by the three major state-owned Russian television networks.

On 13 June 2000, Gusinsky was arrested on charges of stealing property worth more than $ 10 million from the state-owned " Russian Video " company, but three days later was released on bail.

On August 6, 2003, police force was used to disperse the Kmara rally, protesting against the arrival of the Russian state-owned power company Unified Energy Systems ( UES ) to the Georgian energy market.

* United Aircraft Corporation ,-in Russian: Объединённая Авиастроительная Корпорация, Obyedinyonnaya Aviasroitelnaya Korporatsiya ( OAK )-is a Russian open joint stock corporation with a majority stake belonging to the Russian Government that consolidates Russian private and state-owned aircraft construction companies and assets engaged in the manufacture, design and sale of military, civilian, transport, and unmanned aircraft

It was formerly the most important production subsidiary of Yukos, but was expropriated by the Russian government and given to Rosneft, a state-owned company.

On 22 December 2004, Baikalfinansgrup was purchased by Rosneft, a wholly state-owned Russian oil company.

* Rossiya 1 ( previously RTR ), a state-owned Russian television channel

In January 2006, it was rumoured that the Russian state-owned utility company Gazprom was seeking a takeover of Centrica.

The remaining 75 % of AutoVAZ continues to be owned by the Russian state-owned Rostekhnologia corporation.

As an alternative to the Russian state-owned mail system, DHL, UPS, and Federal Express are operating in Cheboksary.

# Natural gas import and distribution, held by ArmRosGazprom ( ARG ) ( controlled by Russian monopoly Gazprom )

Russian natural gas reaches Armenia via a pipeline through Georgia.

In September 2002, the Armenian government handed over Armenia ’ s largest cement factory to the Russian ITERA gas exporter in payment for its $ 10 million debt for past gas deliveries.

On November 1, 2006, the Armenian government handed de facto control of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline to Russian company Gazprom and increased Gazprom's stake in the Russian-Armenian company ArmRosGazprom from 45 % to 58 % by approving an additional issue of shares worth $ 119 million.

The Russian Gazprom company planned a gas pipeline from Dimitrovgrad in eastern Bulgaria across Serbia, reaching the Adriatic Sea in Croatia.

Relations with Russia are cordial and common issues include bureaucracy ( particularly at the Vaalimaa border crossing ), airspace violations, development aid Finland gives to Russia ( especially in environmental problems that affect Finland ), and Finland's energy dependency on Russian gas and electricity.

Many scare stories have originated from various Russian gas masks and their filters that are now common in surplus stores ; the GP-5 was often considered to have an asbestos filter, however like most cold-war masks it only contains activated charcoal.

On 15 August 2008, during the 2008 South Ossetia war, Nord Stream, a Russian gas project, announced that it had signed a consulting contract with Lipponen.

In an article published in October 2008, Lipponen discussed the Russian response in Georgia and warned Europe of its dependence on Russian gas.

Oil, natural gas, metals, and timber account for more than 80 % of Russian exports abroad.

Turkmenistan's major gas deposits were discovered in its central and eastern areas in the 1940s and ' 50s, and in the 1980s the republic became the second largest producer of gas in the Soviet Union, behind the Russian SFSR.

These achievements have been ascribed by analysts to good macroeconomic management, important fiscal reforms, increasing capital inflows, access to low-cost external financing and a five-fold increase in the price of oil and gas which constitute the majority of Russian exports .< ref name = rutland >

* January 31 – WWI: Germany's first large-scale use of poison gas as a weapon occurs when 18, 000 artillery shells containing liquid xylyl bromide tear gas are fired on the Imperial Russian Army on the Rawka River west of Warsaw during the Battle of Bolimov ; however, freezing temperatures prevent it being effective.

Western nations view Russian bellicosity and belligerence as having markedly increased as of late, with tests of new nuclear-capable missiles occurring on a regular basis, military conflicts with neighboring states, claims of a Russian " sphere of influence " on the perimeter of the old Soviet Union, the rise of ultra-nationalist " Putin Youth " groups, aggressive politicization of and threats of withdrawal of natural gas supplies to Europe should the Europeans not make certain policy concessions, and even threats of a nuclear first strike against Poland have been heard to be made by certain Russian generals.

In addition to cutting off supplies to Ukraine, Russian gas flowing through Ukraine — which included nearly all supplies to Southeastern Europe and some supplies to Central and Western Europe — was cut off, creating a major crisis in several countries heavily dependent on Russian gas as fuel.

* Alien ( shipping company ), a Russian company

* The Russian way of saying VID ( company ), A Russian TV Company.

* 1898 Diesel licensed his engine to Branobel, a Russian oil company interested in an engine that could consume non-distilled oil.

The Khanzhonkov company quickly became much the largest Russian film company, and remained so until 1918.

The grave of Princess Yourievsky ( 1878-1959 ) who was a member of the ill-fated Russian Royal family and who lived in North Hayling for many years, may be found in St. Peter's churchyard ; and the grave of Scotsman George Glas Sandeman, nephew of the founder of Sandeman Port and second head of that company, is prominently featured in the north-east part of St. Mary's graveyard.

* Russian company: You have two cows.

According to security analyst Jeffrey Carr, use of ICQ may cause security problems because it was purchased by Russian investment company Digital Sky Technologies.

The company began to make steel cannons in the 1840s — especially for the Russian, Turkish, and Prussian armies.

Liberia and Russia resumed bilateral relations in March 2010 and cited a recent exploration of mine by a Russian company as a sign of future trade relations.

The new company reached an agreement with the deputy mayor of St Petersburg, the future Russian Prime Minister and President, Vladimir Putin, to receive a tax break in order to keep the LOMO factory in the city open.

The company resells Russian dead stock cameras and is also producing and selling several kinds of film.

AvtoVAZ is the largest company in the Russian automotive industry.

On 3 May 2012, the Renault-Nissan alliance has signed letter of intent to raise its stake in Avtovaz to a majority by taking a majority share of 67. 13 % of a joint venture with the Russian state-controlled company, Russian Technologies, to own 74. 5 % of Avtovaz.

In 1994, the investment communication company ( OJSC “ Sviazinvest ”) was established by the Presidential Decree # 1989 dated 10 October 1994 “ On the specific features of the state management of the electric communication network for public use in Russian Federation ”.

For this Russian company SmartLabs was chosen.

The company included the best young Russian dancers, among them Anna Pavlova, Adolph Bolm, Vaslav Nijinsky, Tamara Karsavina and Vera Karalli, and their first night on 19 May 1909 was a sensation.

The company was established in La Jolla in California to work on translation of Russian to English text for the United States Air Force during the Cold War.

Russian mobile phone operator MTS acquired BCTI and state owned communication company TurkmenTelekom opened new subsidiary, Altyn Asyr GSM.