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...
Low-cost airline Pobeda, a subsidiary of Russian flag carrier Aeroflot, said on Sunday it stops flights to Finland’s Helsinki from February 1, RIA news agency reports.
"Flights to Helsinki will be suspended from February 1 as part of the flight efficiency optimization program. Those having tickets to the canceled...
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...
New environmental requirements with regard to chemical content of wastewater could negatively impact the meat industry in Russia, including pig farms, industry associations have said, according to Pigprogress.net.
The message was shared in an open letter, written by a group of agricultural associations and addressed to the Russian deputy prime minister...
Waste management is one of the growing environmental problems of Russia’s Moscow Region, as local authorities look to lessons from the European Union’s expertise in an effort to eliminate huge waste dumps inherited from the Soviet era, New Europe reports.
“In Russia, nobody paid serious attention to waste management...
A new policy proposal to counter tobacco consumption was drafted by the Russian Health Ministry, outlining a plan for a successive reduction in the usage of tobacco, RBC reports.
The document outlines a possible gradual withdrawal of tobacco products from circulation from 2030, the report says.
Russia has one of the largest...
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...
U.S. biotechnology company Genetic Immunity has granted an exclusive license of its trans-dermally delivered plasmid DNA-based therapeutic HIV vaccine technology to Russian company Pharmadis, the two firms said in a statement.
Under the agreement, Pharmadis received rights to market Genetic Immunity's HIV technology in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States...
The European Union will continue with imposed economic sanctions against Russia for another six months, The European Council’s President Donald Tusk has said, according to VOA News.
The measures, first imposed in 2014 over Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the Ukrainian crisis, are targeting Russia’s economy and were due...
Russian luxury lifestyle publication Snob hosted its “Made in Russia” awards over the weekend for the seventh time. The ceremony, which took place at the Historical Museum on Red Square, had special significance since the magazine was celebrating its tenth anniversary, The Moscow Times reports.
The “Made in Russia” prizes are...
