Siberian Anthracite launched a 10-year investment programme targeting an increase in production to 9.5 million tons a year. At present, the company’s production capacity is to mine more than 5 million tonnes of ROM UHG anthracite. The company exports most of its production (85% in 2010), largely to customers in south-east Asia such as Hyundai Steel. Anthracite produced by the company is used mostly an input material for the steel-making process. It can be substituted for coke in blast furnaces, and is also used in pulverised coal injection and iron-ore sintering and pelletising, as well as production of electrodes. Siberian Anthracite is
What Is a Nation? What Is a Nation? "What is a Nation?" ("Qu'est-ce qu'une nation?") is an 1882 lecture by French historian Ernest Renan (1823–1892), known for the statements that a nation is "a daily referendum", and that nations are based as much on what the people jointly forget, as what they remember. It is frequently quoted or anthologized in works of history or political science pertaining to nationalism and national identity. Renan wrote "What is a Nation" in order to symbolize the nationalism which was born in France as a result of the French Revolution of 1789. Renan begins his essay by noting