After a painful week of trying to figure out how to do it, I'm proud to announce that Norilsk has Steam Achievements.
With this notice, I should note that there has been an update on a certain patch for this game, so that the patch works with the new file structure.
Note that version 2.0 of the patch will only require data files. I'm not sure why I made it so complicated before, but data files are the only thing that is needed now in order to play the full version of this game.
I will be updating LVN Fake News as well in the next couple of days to add achievements and make changes to the patches framework.