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According to a source, the European Commission (EC) has technically prolonged antidumping penalties against Russian and Chinese steel that were set to expire on August 5, according to TASS on Wednesday. "Antidumping duties on Russia and China will stay in force until the review procedure for these measures is finished....
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...
Restrictions on fishing by non-Russian companies in the country’s waters, imposed by federal law, could soon be dropped, Seafood Source reports. Speaking at the recently held Global Fishery Forum in St. Petersburg, the head of Russia’s Federal Fisheries Agency Ilya Shestakov suggested potentially changing federal laws to allow foreign companies into...
At least 11,000 people that entered Russia from China are being monitored regarding the coronavirus, TASS reports citing the Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor). "From February 1, 2020, a separate terminal has been allocated and prepared under the supervision of Rospotrebnadzor at the...
Russia’s state development bank wants to start turning the world’s biggest energy exporter into a hub for green finance days after a 20,000-ton diesel spill in the nation’s far north, Energy Voice writes. VEB.RF, which has been used in the past to help finance President Vladimir Putin’s infrastructure projects, plans...
The peninsula is located in a seismically active zone of the Pacific, known as the Ring of Fire and regularly suffers from powerful earthquakes, Sputnik News reported. An earthquake of 6.2 magnitude struck Russia's Kamchatka peninsula, according to the German Research Centre for Geosciences. The epicentre of the quake was...
A fire in an apartment block killed eight people in the Russian Urals city of Yekaterinburg in the early hours of Tuesday, the local branch of Russia’s Investigative Committee said, Reuters reports. Investigators from the Sverdlovsk region said a child was among those killed and that a criminal case had...
On Thursday, Arctic countries vowed to combat global warming, which is three times higher in the Far North, and to keep the area peaceful as its strategic value grows, The Moscow Times reports. As foreign ministers from countries bordering the Arctic met in Reykjavik, Iceland, they discussed accelerated global warming,...
Interfax reported Tuesday that Russian officials have declared an interregional state of emergency as difficult-to-control forest fires threaten the country's top-secret nuclear weapons development site. Since early August, wildfires have burned in Nizhny Novgorod and the adjacent republic of Mordovia, both around 500 kilometers east of Moscow, The Moscow Times...
A Norway-based science team has found a Soviet-era nuclear submarine in the Arctic that had sunk some three decades ago, with radiation levels 100,000 times higher than the normal levels, The Moscow Times reported. The nuclear submarines sank in one of the world’s largest fishing areas of the Barents Sea...