Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin instructed the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Finance to provide additional funding for the All-Russian competition for the best projects to create a comfortable urban environment for the next three years, according to the government's website.
There are over 1000 small towns and...
The Norilsk Nickel Company (Nornickel) will allocate 830 million rubles ($11 million) within 2021 to support southbound relocation of residents from Norilsk and Dudinka. The current program’s term expires in 2020, but Nornickel will continue the work, the company’s Vice President Andrei Grachev told TASS.
In 2011, Russia’s Ministry for...
Russian aluminium giant Rusal said on Tuesday it had requested Norilsk Nickel’s board of directors make management changes, relocate its headquarters to Norilsk in Russia’s Arctic and overhaul its environmental and safety policies, Reuters reported.
Rusal said it was seriously concerned by a series of ecological accidents in Norilsk and...
Test kits for the novel coronavirus to countries have been sent by Russia to a number of countries including Iran, North Korea, and ex-Soviet states, the country’s health authorities said on Thursday, according to AFP.
The state health watchdog said in a statement that Moscow had sent 800 test kits...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree on endorsing an anti-tobacco concept aimed at reducing the number of smokers among Russian adults to 21% by 2035, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports.
Russia’s Health Ministry together with respective federal bodies of executive power will draw up a plan in the coming...
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...
The number of coronavirus cases throughout Russia has increased from 50 to 63 in the past day. All the four new patients have visited coronavirus-affected countries in the recent two weeks, the coronavirus response headquarters said on Sunday, TASS reported.
"Four new coronavirus cases have been registered in Russia over...
Russian paleontologists have discovered more than a thousand bones of mammoths, bison and cave lions on the banks of rivers in Siberia's Tyumen Region, which can be up to one million years old, researcher Pavel Kosintsev said on Wednesday, Sputnik News reported.
"Bones of a mammoth, rhino, horse, and bison...
Russian state oil company Rosneft and the country’s Natural Resources and Environment Ministry last week signed a cooperation agreement as part of the national Environment project activities that strive to protect biodiversity and the sustainability of the Arctic ecosystems, Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported.
The oil giant’s CEO Igor Sechin and Russia’s...
A fire in an apartment block killed eight people in the Russian Urals city of Yekaterinburg in the early hours of Tuesday, the local branch of Russia’s Investigative Committee said, Reuters reports.
Investigators from the Sverdlovsk region said a child was among those killed and that a criminal case had...
