The Russian industry considers developing heavy drones to control the border in Arctic regions, First Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Border Guard Service Head Vladimir Kulishov told TASS on Thursday.
"In the interests of carrying out border guard activity in remote Arctic areas and Far Eastern seas,...
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...
In a new trial project, Russian electric vehicle owners will be allowed to use toll roads for free beginning in 2022, The Moscow Times writes citing a newly released draft government proposal.
The program, which is part of the new Development Concept for the Production and Use of Electric Automobile...
Russian Nickel and Palladium producer Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) will invest more than 123 billion rubles ($1.9 billion) in cutting emissions at its enterprises in Norilsk under the Clean Air federal project, TASS news agency reports.
The investments will be made over the next four years under the company’s Northern...
New York-based diamond wholesaler Larry J. West has purchased a 6.21-carat intense pink diamond unearthed and polished by Russian mining giant Alrosa, the company said in a statement.
The unique stone originates from Yakutia, Russia's largest region and home to the world's pole of cold.
Larry J. West, a three generation...
Fedor Konyukhov, a Russian adventurer has come back to Murmansk, a port city in the Russian northwest along with his team that volunteered to clean up the Arctic on the nuclear icebreaker called 50 Years of Victory, TASS informed.
Konyukhov who was the project's ambassador spent 10 days alone on...
Russia has managed to contain a massive diesel spill into a river in the Arctic, a spokeswoman for the emergencies ministry told AFP on Friday, The Moscow Times reported.
"We have stopped the spread of the petroleum products," the spokeswoman for the task force in charge of the accident clean-up...
Russia’s state-run nuclear power company Rosatom has said it has taken a Soviet-built nuclear reactor out of operation after 45 years of service, the company said in a statement on Saturday.
According to the corporation, Reactor No. 1 at the Leningrad nuclear power plant has been shut down as...
The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources has produced a draft bill titled "On Amendments to the Administrative Code," which proposes introducing responsibility for failure to comply with required standards for quoting polluting emissions.
According to the paper, people who refuse to submit information for completing summary air pollution estimates may...
The Norilsk Nickel Company (Nornickel) will support the initiative to organize a pilot platform for public-private partnership (PPP) projects for the North’s low-numbered indigenous peoples on the Taimyr Peninsula, Nornickel’s Vice Present on federal and regional programs Andrei Grachev said on Wednesday, TASS informed.
At the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum, during...
