A fishery and aquaculture development center in Ethiopia will be opened with the help of Russian experts, RIA Novosti reported. An ongiong program, supervised by UN specialists, is aimed at reducing poverty and unemployment in the African country. The project will make it possible to create at least 600...
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...
Damage from crimes connected to the natural environment in Russia for 2018 amounted to 12 billion rubles ($186 million), with the bulk of the illegal activities falling on the country’s logging industry, a Russian official has said, according to Interfax.
Yevgeny Miroshnik, from the department of management of methodological and...
Thawing of once permanently-frozen ground covering more than half of Russia is increasingly putting buildings, pipelines and other infrastructure at risk of damage, Bloomberg writes.
According to Alexander Krutikov, deputy minister for the Far East and Arctic development, the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the...
Due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the Austrian government has announced a ban on entry into the country for citizens of the UK, the Netherlands, Russia, and Ukraine. According to the latest data, about 800 people have been infected with the virus in Austria, one of whom...
