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...
The 50th-anniversary edition of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos has concluded, with discussions about environmental degradation and climate change in the focus of the annual gathering of the world’s business elite, Izvestia writes.
Prior to and during the forum, held under the theme "Stakeholders for a Cohesive and...
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...
Russian company Teksnabexport (Tenex), a trading arm of state-run nuclear corporation Rosatom, has won a tender staged by Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd. (KHNP) on a new uranium enrichment contract, the Russian company said in a statement.
The company supplies nuclear fuel cycle products developed by the organizations...
Three people were missing after a Turkish fishing boat and a Russian-flagged tanker collided on Friday off Istanbul's northern coast, the Turkish coastguard said, according to Anadolu Agency.
The Turkish boat sank after the collision around 0330 GMT, the coastguard said in a statement.
Three people were rescued and search-and-rescue efforts...
One of the world’s largest shipbuilders, Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries will probably sweep orders from Russia for ice-breaking LNG carriers to be used for the Yamal LNG project, Business Korea reports.
Energy company Novatek recently asked the Russian government to approve its plan to place an order for 10 additional...
As governments across the world are urged to address the growing danger of global warming, the Russian leadership has come out with a "national adaptation plan" that puts a positive spin on climate change, CBS News writes.
In the document published on a government website last weekend, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev...
A greenhouse farm in a Moscow suburb burned down on Tuesday morning, with eight people killed and one other person injured, Russian emergency services said, according to AP.
All eight victims were migrants from Tajikistan who apparently worked at the farm.
The fire broke out in one of the metal construction...
Danish wind turbines producer Vestas has secured an order totaling 252MW for three wind farms in Russia from Finland’s Fortum and local state-run company Rusnano's Wind Energy Development Fund, Evwind reports.
The projects will be located in the Kalmykiya and Rostov regions and will comprise 60 V126-4.2MW machines.
Delivery is scheduled...
