Wild boars have been spotted in some Moscow parks, the official website of the capital’s mayor reported Sunday, as cited by The Moscow Times.
While the advisory note said the beasts would not attack a person for no reason they warned that the animals are dangerous and capable of causing...
A Russian mining giant behind an enormous Arctic fuel spill last month said Sunday it had suspended workers at a metals plant who were responsible for pumping wastewater into nearby tundra, The Moscow Times reported.
Norilsk Nickel cited a "flagrant violation of operating rules" in a statement announcing it had...
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...
The turquoise water of a small lake in Siberia looks like a tropical paradise, and it’s drawn in hundreds of Instagramers who have posed in and around the “Novosibirsk Maldives,” the New York Times writes.
But unlike similar natural attractions, it’s not white sands or microscopic plankton that give the...
Following a nuclear-powered icebreaker, a Russian tanker has sailed through the frigid Northern Sea Route for the first time ever in February. “Won’t somebody think of the poor ice?”, climate-conscious commenters shouted, RT informed.
The Christophe de Margerie, a liquefied natural gas tanker operated by Russian shipping firm Sovcomflot, made...
Russia’s energy ministry said on Monday a stranded container ship blocking Egypt’s Suez Canal has highlighted the safety and sustainability of its Northern Sea Route (NSR) and Russian energy pipelines, Reuters reports.
These “are highly secure and hold competitive positions in terms of transportation costs as well as by reliability...
The Forum for Interregional Cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan has been held since 2003 in turn in the cities of the two countries - in 2019, the host city was Omsk, where the two sides discussed issues related to cross-border cooperation.
The next in line was Kokshetau in the north...
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...
Russia’s snowy hinterland is set for an abnormal spell of relatively warm weather this week, with the mercury pushing up well beyond normal. Last year saw record-breaking summers, thawing ice and forest fires throughout Siberia, RT reported.
Much of the vast Asian territory of the country will enjoy unusually moderate...
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s request to fully prohibit the export of round timber starting in 2022 has split the timber industry into two camps, TASS reported citing Kommersant. If major corporations, which often face the lack of raw materials, consider the measure useful, those companies that don’t have processing...
