The first sunrise of the year dawned upon residents of Murmansk in Russia's Arctic as the 40-day-long polar night finally came to an end — if only for a brief 45 minutes, The Moscow Times reported.
On Jan. 11, residents of Murmansk, the world's largest city above the Arctic Circle,...
A fire in an apartment block killed eight people in the Russian Urals city of Yekaterinburg in the early hours of Tuesday, the local branch of Russia’s Investigative Committee said, Reuters reports.
Investigators from the Sverdlovsk region said a child was among those killed and that a criminal case had...
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...
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a decree approving rules of oil and petroleum products spill prevention and response. The document was posted on the official web portal of legal information on Saturday, TASS reported.
"Enclosed rules of organizing activities to prevent and respond to oil and petroleum products...
Three people were killed after an avalanche struck a ski resort near the Arctic city of Norilsk late on Friday, the local branch of Russia’s emergency services ministry said, Reuters reports.
The bodies of two adults and a young child were found as part of a search and rescue mission...
Four people were caught in an ice glacier collapse in Kamchatka, one was killed, three were wounded, press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry told TASS.
"According to operational data, four people from the tourist group were under the collapse: three of them were injured, one was killed," the press...
A crew of 17 from a Murmansk-based fishing trawler are feared dead after their vessel sank in the Barents Sea near Novaya Zemlya, an isolated archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, RT reported.
Another ship managed to rescue two of the 19 on board. A distress call from the trawler Onega...
Russian authorities said the fuel spill at an Arctic power station earlier in 2020 was the largest in world history, a top emergencies official said Thursday, The Moscow Times reported.
Some 21,000 tons of oil poured into the surrounding ground and waterways near the city of Norilsk after a diesel...
Eleven bodies were discovered at the scene of a firefighting effort in a care home in Bashkortostan, a republic in Russia's southern Urals, the Emergencies Ministry’s press service told TASS on Tuesday.
"At 00:53 Moscow Time a fire was reported on Kizilskaya Street in Ishbuldino, in Bashkortostan’s Abzelilovsky district. Eleven...
Disturbing images have emerged after 272 endangered Caspian seals were found washed up on the beaches of Dagestan. The mammal can only be found in the world’s largest inland body of water, which borders five Eurasian countries, RT reported.
According to Rosrybolovstvo, the Federal Agency for Fishery, 272 carcasses were...
