A freak snowstorm that has battered parts of the Russian Far East and left 100,000 residents without electricity for several days is linked to climate change, analysts and activists say, The Moscow Times reported.
The storm that hit the Primorye region and its capital of Vladivostok last Thursday brought down...
Russian eco-activists will end more than two years of protests against a controversial garbage dump that would have seen tons of waste shipped from Moscow to northern Russia after its construction was halted, The Moscow Times reports.
Russians nationwide have protested against plans to ship Moscow’s trash to remote regions...
Carbon tetrachloride, a lethal chemical meant to be tightly controlled by an international agreement, is what caused a massive oil contamination scandal in Russia’s Druzhba pipeline this year, Reuters reported citing the results of three separate, undisclosed tests.
A summary of the results of a test carried out for Russia’s...
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...
Damage from crimes connected to the natural environment in Russia for 2018 amounted to 12 billion rubles ($186 million), with the bulk of the illegal activities falling on the country’s logging industry, a Russian official has said, according to Interfax.
Yevgeny Miroshnik, from the department of management of methodological and...
German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions is supplying a new coal handling system to the State Transport Leasing Company (STLC) in Russia, Mining Magazine reports.
The system will be the centerpiece of a new terminal for coal exports in the Port of Lavna near Murmansk, on the western shore of Kola...
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 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...
Russian-caught fish sold in the U.S. is enjoying a price advantage inadvertently protected by a trade decision by the Trump administration, and much of the cheaper Russian product ends up in fish sticks served to American school children, CNN writes.
Russian pollock costs less than its U.S.-caught equivalent, and foreign...
Russia's carbon neutrality must be achieved by 2060, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the G20 summit via video link on Sunday, October 31.
"Counting natural gas, the lowest-carbon fuel among hydrocarbons, the share is 86%", Putin noted.
It is one of the best indicators in the world, Putin stressed. He...
