All the headlines from our Russia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 7 2020 // GENEVA/MOSCOW – Temperatures in Arctic Siberia soared to a record average for June amid a heat wave that is stoking some of the worst wildfires the region has ever known, European Union (EU) data showed on Tuesday.Global...
Jul 7 2020 // Russia’s environmental watchdog has asked a power subsidiary of Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) to pay almost 148 billion roubles ($2 billion) in damages over an Arctic fuel spill in...
Jun 17 2020 // Russia’s Gazprom PJSC has made a request with the Danish government to deploy new vessels in the Baltic Sea for work on the disputed Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, Denmark’s environmental protection agency...
Jun 11 2020 // The mishandling of the biggest Arctic oil spill ever infuriated Russian President Vladimir Putin and could give a boost to the country’s environmental regulation.MMC Norilsk Nickel PJSC, Russia’s biggest miner,...
Jun 10 2020 // Diesel fuel from a major spill in Russia’s Arctic has reached a pristine lake which is the basin for a river flowing into the Arctic Ocean, a regional official said on Tuesday, but the mining giant embroiled in the...
Jun 4 2020 // A massive fuel spill in Siberia prompted Russia to declare a state of emergency in the region as the mining company involved said the catastrophe may have been caused by climate change.Scientists have warned for years that...
Jun 4 2020 // U.S. senators will announce a bill this week expanding sanctions on Russia’s Gazprom-led Nord Stream 2 project, Senate aides said, targeting a pipeline Washington says will make Europe too reliant on Russian gas.The...
May 29 2020 // The U.S. National Security Agency on Thursday warned government partners and private companies about a Russian hacking operation that uses a special intrusion technique to target operating systems often used by industrial...
Feb 21 2020 // Georgia accused Russian military intelligence of organizing a “paralyzing” cyber attack last year and called for a reaction by the international community.Russia’s GRU was behind the...
Jan 27 2020 // More than 97,000 gallons of red wine spilled from a tank at a vineyard in Sonoma County and eventually leaked into the Russian River, an accident officials said could hurt water quality in the 110-mile tributary flowing...
Jan 7 2020 // Cyber risks were cited as the top concern among businesses of all sizes in 2019, according to a Travelers report released in October.Of the 1,200 business leaders who participated in an insurer-sponsored survey, 55% said...
Dec 3 2019 // By the time Deb Dellapena arrived for work at Merck & Co.’s 90-acre campus north of Philadelphia, there was a handwritten sign on the door: The computers are down.It was worse than it seemed. Some employees who...
Oct 21 2019 // At least 15 gold miners were killed on Saturday when a dam collapsed, flooding an artisanal mining encampment in a remote part of Siberia, officials said.Heavy rains had weakened the dam and water broke through, sweeping...
Oct 21 2019 // Russia wants to make its Arctic waters more attractive to shippers than the Suez Canal and could be willing to compensate for potential risks to make that happen.President Vladimir Putin has made development of the Arctic...
Sep 11 2019 // A conservative television network has sued MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow for more than $10 million for calling it “paid Russian propaganda.”One America News filed the federal defamation suit in San Diego. The...
Aug 23 2019 // Russia’s Rosatom shipped its first floating nuclear-power reactor on Friday, setting the unit off on a barge journey among Arctic ice caps, raising concerns in the wake of a recent military accident that caused a...
Aug 21 2019 // Russia has resumed sharing data from its radiation monitoring stations in Siberia after some were taken offline following a deadly explosion at a missile range, a nuclear weapons watchdog said Tuesday.The mysterious...
Aug 20 2019 // President Vladimir Putin said there’s no risk from the explosion at a Russian military facility that caused a radiation spike and killed at least five people.“There’s no threat there and no increase in...
Aug 19 2019 // Yandex, a Russian equivalent to Google, said it is considering expanding its fleet of self-driving cars to up to 1,000 within the next two years in order to speed up tests on the fledgling technology.Yandex hopes to start...
Aug 1 2019 // Washington had a record 1,850 responses to wildfires on Department of Natural Resources lands last year.Over the last five years, wildfires have continued to hit the state hard. One state official, who believes climate...