A Russian court fined mining giant Nornickel 146 billion rubles ($2 billion) Friday for its role in the worst oil spill in the country’s modern history, The Moscow Times reports.
Some 21,000 tons of diesel fuel poured into the ground and waterways surrounding Nornickel’s base — the city of Norilsk...
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...
Russia’s Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and the Arctic expects around 15 trillion rubles ($235 billion) to be invested in the Arctic within the next 15 years due to subsidies envisioned by the development strategy for Russia’s Arctic zone through 2035, Deputy Minister Alexander Krutikov...
The Norilsk Nickel Company (Nornickel) over five years will allocate 2 billion rubles ($25 million) for support of the North’s low-numbered indigenous peoples on the Taimyr Peninsula, the company’s Vice President Andrei Grachev told TASS.
"We plan about 2 billion rubles for support of the North’s low-numbered indigenous peoples over...
Another mass protest was held this week in the northwestern Russian town of Kotlas against the construction of a new landfill for waste from the country’s capital Moscow, Radio Liberty reported.
According to the organizers of the rally, about 10,000 people turned out in the town of 60,000 on Sunday....
A freak snowstorm that has battered parts of the Russian Far East and left 100,000 residents without electricity for several days is linked to climate change, analysts and activists say, The Moscow Times reported.
The storm that hit the Primorye region and its capital of Vladivostok last Thursday brought down...
At least 11,000 people that entered Russia from China are being monitored regarding the coronavirus, TASS reports citing the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor).
"From February 1, 2020, a separate terminal has been allocated and prepared under the supervision of Rospotrebnadzor at the...
Russian eco-activists will end more than two years of protests against a controversial garbage dump that would have seen tons of waste shipped from Moscow to northern Russia after its construction was halted, The Moscow Times reports.
Russians nationwide have protested against plans to ship Moscow’s trash to remote regions...
U.S. President Donald Trump has postponed a planned G7 summit slated to happen in June but has invited Russia to attend the rescheduled meeting in September in New York, bne IntelliNews has said.
Trump, keen to show the coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic-related lockdown is coming to an end, called for a...
Eleven bodies were discovered at the scene of a firefighting effort in a care home in Bashkortostan, a republic in Russia's southern Urals, the Emergencies Ministry’s press service told TASS on Tuesday.
"At 00:53 Moscow Time a fire was reported on Kizilskaya Street in Ishbuldino, in Bashkortostan’s Abzelilovsky district. Eleven...
