Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court on Monday fined Russian celebrity and prominent hairstylist Sergey Zverev 15,000 rubles ($230) for an illegal protest against the construction of a drink water bottling plant at Lake Baikal in the Irkutsk Region, Novaya Gazeta reports.
In early March, Zverev stood by the Kremlin twice to...
A fishery and aquaculture development center in Ethiopia will be opened with the help of Russian experts, RIA Novosti reported. An ongiong program, supervised by UN specialists, is aimed at reducing poverty and unemployment in the African country. The project will make it possible to create at least 600...
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Gordeyev said on Tuesday his country plans to ratify the Paris climate agreement by the end of this year, TASS news agency reports.
"Russia welcomes the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement and considers it to be a reliable international legal framework for long-term...
Russia is considering climate legislation that could give the country a framework for regulating carbon emissions for the first time, Kommersant reported this week.
Russia is the world’s fifth largest emitter of CO2 into the atmosphere. The draft bill would give the government powers to introduce greenhouse gas emission...
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.
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Plans by the government of Russia’s Moscow Region to send its trash to poorer — and often pristine — northern areas have led thousands of protesters to rally in more than a dozen Russian cities and towns, The Associated Press reports.
The biggest protests against the waste management plans were...
People going in for sports will be able to receive tax deductions from their personal income taxes from 2020, Vedomosti reports, citing the Ministry of Finance’s decision to start work on the project.
The proposed move comes in the wake of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order to impose tax...
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...
Russian fire crews extinguished a fire that broke out at an oil refinery in Moscow, the Emergency Ministry said on Saturday, according to Vedomosti.
According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, a furnace of a catalytic cracking unit for oil refining has caught fire at the plant. More than a...
