As air pollution issues have long become an everyday struggle, officials in Kazakhstan are partnering with a Chinese manufacturer of commercial vehicles, Yutong, to get rid of traditional diesel buses in Kazakhstan’s streets, Caspian News reports.
Two cities in Central Asia’s largest country, Shymkent and Atyrau, will put into operation...
Russia is getting ready to take over its two-year Arctic Council chairmanship, which will begin in May, TASS reports citing Kommersant. Nikolai Korchunov, Ambassador-at-large of the Russian Foreign Ministry, who is the country’s top official in the Arctic Council, in an interview with Kommersant clarified what goals Moscow would...
Moscow has improved its position in the fDi Intelligence analytics company's international Tech Cities of the future, updating its position on four lines and ranking 14th among 76 European cities, according to the information available on Tuesday on the mayor's and municipal administrations official website, TASS reports.
The ranking assesses...
Russian regions will be able to receive additional funding to reduce the level of environmental pollution, according to the press service of the Russian government.
The corresponding decree, signed by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin, speaks of expanding the list of areas that will be financed...
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...
A fire broke out in the Internatsionalny mine (owned by ALROSA) in the Mirny district, the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations informed. According to the report, the fire was caused by the loading and unloading machine. There are 98 people in the mine, they are being evacuated....
Three people were killed Friday in a gas explosion at a mine in the Russian region of Siberia, prosecutors said, The Moscow Times reports.
"During operations, there was a sudden release of gas, which resulted in three people being buried under rubble," the Kemerovo region prosecutor's office said.
They said in...
Thousands of protestors have rallied in Russia's the northwestern Komi Republic against the construction of a new landfill in the neighboring Arkhangelsk region, local news agency Komi Inform reported.
The demonstrators gathered in Michurin Park in the Komi capital, Syktyvkar, on Sunday, protesting what they called Moscow’s "colonial politics" and...
The trustworthy ship from Star Wars was destroyed by the Empire forces in the end of the first season. Its copy, located in the Yrdel Park, became a major attraction for SW fans and tourists in general. However, it looks as though all the popularity and love it received...
In a new report on the Russian economy, the World Bank recommended on Wednesday that the country considers introducing "carbon taxes" or other carbon charging mechanisms, RIA Novosti reports.
"In the medium-to-long-term, and with the necessary political backing, it would be important to increase fuel excise taxes and differentiate tax...
