Norway doubts the Northern Sea Route’s route’s economic feasibility and plans to check its compliance with environmental standards, Norway’s top diplomat Ine Marie Eriksen Soreide told Izvestia in an interview published Monday.
Soreide said she has no idea how Russia would be able to ensure the safety of shipping in Arctic waters...
Russian gold miner Pavlik Gold has selected Finnish industrial machinery company Metso to supply key crushing and grinding equipment for its ore processing plant in Magadan, International Mining reported last week.
The Pavlik gold ore processing plant started operations in 2015. It is currently producing approximately seven tons of gold...
The unrest in Minnesota demonstrates that serious human rights problems have accumulated in the United States, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday, TASS reported.
"This incident is not the first in the string of incidents exposing lawlessness and unjustified violence by ‘guardians of law and order’...
Russian mining companies are doing a better job at reporting their efforts to mitigate environmental impacts and protect their natural surroundings, says the 2019 Environmental Transparency Rating of Mining and Metals Companies Operating in Russia, published by the local chapter of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
According to WWF, this...
The Russia-Saudi Arabia pact on oil production appears to be on shaky ground despite the possibility of a compromise between the two sides on the amount and means of agreed output cuts, Torbjorn Soltvedt, principal MENA politics analyst at Verisk Maplecroft, said in a note Tuesday, according to CNBC.
According...
A massive diesel spill into a Siberian river caused at least 6 billion rubles (more than $76 million) in damages to waterways above the Arctic Circle, Greenpeace Russia said Wednesday, The Moscow Times reported.
President Vladimir Putin ordered a state of emergency Wednesday five days after more than 20,000 metric...
Nature of the Arctic zone is extremely vulnerable, so any economic activity in the northern areas should be so organized that environmental risks are minimized there, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with volunteers held as a video conference on Saturday, TASS writes.
A participant in the video...
U.S. fast-food giant McDonald’s said on Thursday it had canceled a celebration of a 30-year milestone at its first restaurant in Moscow due to fear of the spread of the coronavirus, Reuters reported.
The fast-food chain planned to celebrate the arrival of the Big Mac in Russia 30 years ago...
Russia's emergency services rescued around 600 ice fishermen in a nearly-seven-hour operation after the men got stranded on a giant ice floe that broke off the island of Sakhalin in eastern Siberia, officials said, according to Sakhalin.info.
Around 60 more people were able to get back onto the shore on...
Two passenger planes collided tangentially at Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg, a source in the emergencies services told TASS on Sunday.
"On June 14, a grazing collision occurred between flights St. Petersburg-Irkutsk and St. Petersburg-Kaliningrad during the taxiing on the runway," the source said. No casualties were reported.
The airport is...
