Russia has managed to contain a massive diesel spill into a river in the Arctic, a spokeswoman for the emergencies ministry told AFP on Friday, The Moscow Times reported.
"We have stopped the spread of the petroleum products," the spokeswoman for the task force in charge of the accident clean-up...
The Kremlin dismissed on Friday the idea of ousting Norilsk Nickel President Vladimir Potanin after a Russian lawmaker said he should go following an Arctic fuel spill late last month, Reuters reported.
Shares in Nornickel, the world’s leading nickel and palladium producer, have been hit since Russian President Vladimir Putin...
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...
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 tons of...
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...
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’...
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...
The Russian industry considers developing heavy drones to control the border in Arctic regions, First Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Border Guard Service Head Vladimir Kulishov told TASS on Thursday.
"In the interests of carrying out border guard activity in remote Arctic areas and Far Eastern seas,...
Four people died in a Mi-8 helicopter crash at Ugolniye Kopi airport in Russia’s Chukotka, a source in the Chukotka Autonomous Region government told TASS.
"Four people died. The preliminary reason for the crash is a technical malfunction," the source said.
A source in the Ministry of Defense also said that...
Kazakhstan‘s new leadership, faced with concurrent challenges of volatile oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic, has approved nineteen new renewable energy projects worth $1.1 billion in the country’s latest effort to go green and diversify its energy supply, EURACTIV reported.
To date, there are already 97 operating renewable energy facilities...
