Monday, June 23, 2025
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 gas explosion at a factory in Russia on Friday killed six people and injured two more, emergency officials said, according to RIA Novosti. The explosion occurred in Russia's central Oryol region, causing an engineering production facility under construction to collapse. It wasn't immediately clear what prompted the explosion. All three...
The cost of building four Rosatom hazardous waste processing plants has more than tripled, reaching 48 billion rubles. The reasons, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Rosatom, include a decrease in the percentage of waste incineration and an increase in processing volumes, an increase in environmental requirements,...
Russia is discussing the transition to green technologies at different international forums, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin said on Friday in an online interview with TASS First Deputy Director-General Mikhail Gusman. "Activities we are currently implementing in terms of emissions are a pressing topic," Vershinin said. "You can figure out...
President Vladimir Putin’s ‘non-working’ paid time off could be extended for another week as the country steps up measures against the deadly coronavirus outbreak, Kommersant reported Thursday. A “non-working week” in whole Russia was declared from March 28 to April 5 to encourage people to stay home and slow the...
Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel said around 45 tons of aviation fuel has spilled from its pipeline in the Arctic, Radio Free Europe reported. The incident is the latest in a series of environmental disasters to hit around the Far Northern city of Norilsk, which is located above the Arctic...
Non-renewable energy was used to move frozen wind turbines back online in Texas during last month’s deep freeze, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday, The Moscow Times reports. An unprecedented winter storm in the southern U.S. state knocked out half of its wind power as well as natural gas and...
According to a statement on the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute's Telegram channel, scientists at Arctic stations have detected smoke from wildfires burning in Yakutia and on the Taimyr. Researchers said that visibility had reduced to 500 meters, the sky was cloudy and they could smell burning. The smoke lingered...
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Viktoria Abramchenko stated at the 9th Nevsky International Ecological Congress in St. Petersburg that the Russian government is working on modifications to laws that might restrict the manufacture of non-recyclable plastic materials in Russia, The Moscow Times reports. According to the administration, new measures will...
The unrest in Minnesota demonstrates that serious human rights problems have accumulated in the United States, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday, TASS reported. "This incident is not the first in the string of incidents exposing lawlessness and unjustified violence by ‘guardians of law and order’...