Russia is looking for ways to develop a market for hydrogen in Europe, a move that would help maintain demand for one of its primary exports as governments everywhere work to cut pollution, Business Times reports.
With Europe working to make dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, Russia is...
Plans by the government of Russia’s Moscow Region to send its trash to poorer — and often pristine — northern areas have led thousands of protesters to rally in more than a dozen Russian cities and towns, The Associated Press reports.
The biggest protests against the waste management plans were...
Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court on Monday fined Russian celebrity and prominent hairstylist Sergey Zverev 15,000 rubles ($230) for an illegal protest against the construction of a drink water bottling plant at Lake Baikal in the Irkutsk Region, Novaya Gazeta reports.
In early March, Zverev stood by the Kremlin twice to...
Russian-caught fish sold in the U.S. is enjoying a price advantage inadvertently protected by a trade decision by the Trump administration, and much of the cheaper Russian product ends up in fish sticks served to American school children, CNN writes.
Russian pollock costs less than its U.S.-caught equivalent, and foreign...
Despite not being able to do so in Russia, companies and entrepreneurs from the country have been investing in the legal cannabis market worldwide for years, Vedomosti reports.
Due to the gradual withdrawal of marijuana bans last year, the size of the global legal market for its production and sale...
U.S. biotechnology company Genetic Immunity has granted an exclusive license of its trans-dermally delivered plasmid DNA-based therapeutic HIV vaccine technology to Russian company Pharmadis, the two firms said in a statement.
Under the agreement, Pharmadis received rights to market Genetic Immunity's HIV technology in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States...
A new policy proposal to counter tobacco consumption was drafted by the Russian Health Ministry, outlining a plan for a successive reduction in the usage of tobacco, RBC reports.
The document outlines a possible gradual withdrawal of tobacco products from circulation from 2030, the report says.
Russia has one of the largest...
Waste management is one of the growing environmental problems of Russia’s Moscow Region, as local authorities look to lessons from the European Union’s expertise in an effort to eliminate huge waste dumps inherited from the Soviet era, New Europe reports.
“In Russia, nobody paid serious attention to waste management...
A Russian cruise ship docked for repairs on the Volga River has burned down near Nizhny Novgorod, Radio Liberty reported on Tuesday.
According to local media, the three-deck Holy Russia cruise ship was under repair near Bon, a town on the Volga River. The ship was not functional since 2018,...
Russian mining companies are doing a better job at reporting their efforts to mitigate environmental impacts and protect their natural surroundings, says the 2019 Environmental Transparency Rating of Mining and Metals Companies Operating in Russia, published by the local chapter of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
According to WWF, this...
