09.03.2010

Gokhran’s Diamond Stock will not Appear on Market until 2012

Vladimir Rybkin, Head of Gohran of the Russian Federation, answered the questions put by the correspondent of Rough&Polished.

03.03.2010

Sightholder scheme hibernated for five months in Namibia

Namibia’s leading diamond producer, Namdeb revealed recently that its output for 2009 was expected to be less than half that of last year. The company said it was also experiencing lower quality ore at its land operations and would not raise production until its brownfield expansion projects materialised. Rough & Polished’s African Bureau Editor Veronica Novoselova had an interview with Namibia’s Diamond Commissioner, Kennedy Hamutenya who spoke widely on the operations of Namdeb.

01.03.2010

Shortage of rough diamonds will facilitate their increased output

The Institute for Regional Economy of the North is currently the only scientific entity in Russia called to develop scientific grounds for economic policy, development of market economy, social and economic policy and rational accommodation of productive forces and branches of the national economy in the North taking the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) as an example. Mikhail Nikolayev, Doctor of Economics and First Deputy Director of the Institute, in his interview to Rough&Polished told about the activities of this scientific body.