A dam collapsed at a gold mine in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region, leaving at least 15 people dead, the Ministry of Emergency Situations said on its website, according to Reuters.
The collapse happened at about 2 a.m. Moscow time near one of the small local gold mining companies’ operations, the ministry...
The number of coronavirus cases throughout Russia has increased from 50 to 63 in the past day. All the four new patients have visited coronavirus-affected countries in the recent two weeks, the coronavirus response headquarters said on Sunday, TASS reported.
"Four new coronavirus cases have been registered in Russia over...
An oil spill north of Moscow has caused a 1,000-fold increase in pollution levels at a reservoir that supplies water to Russia’s capital, the Federal Water Resources Agency said Monday.
The agency, Rosvodoresursy, said it first discovered petroleum products on June 25 in a river that flows into the Khimki...
Russia on Wednesday opened a criminal investigation to establish the cause of unexplained toxic pollution off its far eastern coast that has killed sea creatures and led to their carcasses being washed ashore, Reuters reported.
Greenpeace warned last week of an ecological disaster in waters off the Kamchatka region, a...