The total forest fire area in Russia increased by almost 6,000 hectares over the past 24 hours to 184,500 hectares, the press service of the Aerial Forest Fire Center reported on Monday according to TASS News Agency. As of early Monday, the forest (...)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the friendship between India and Russia has stood the test of time and it was especially seen during COVID-19 pandemic. He also said that COVID-19 had highlighted the importance of health and (...)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that India had put security arrangements in place to safeguard its oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz, which has seen a series of attacks on international vessels in recent (...)
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia would produce missiles that were banned under a landmark Cold-War era nuclear pact that ended last month, but that Moscow would not deploy them unless the United States did so first.
Speaking at (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said after holding talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday that he thought US security guarantees would probably not be enough to persuade Pyongyang to shut its nuclear program.
Putin and Kim held a (...)
AlQa'dah 20, 1436, Sep 4, 2015, SPA -- Russian energy company Gazprom strengthened its grip on the European energy sector in a deal with regional partners to expand a Baltic Sea gas pipeline, UPI reported.
Gazprom Chairman Alexei signed a (...)
Full elimination of the consequences of recent torrential rains in Russia's Far-Eastern Primorsky territory may take several weeks, the press service of Vladivostok Mayoralty told Itar-Tass.
Repairs of just one rural school building will require an (...)
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake shook the Pacific coast south of the Russian city of Kamchatka, UPI quoted seismologists as saying.
The Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences said the epicenter of the temblor was located about 48 miles (...)
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake shook the south of Kamchatka at 19.10 local time (06.10 Hours GMT) on Friday, the Geophysical Service at the Russian Academy of Sciences said.
The epicenter of the tremor was located 77 kilometers off the Paratunka spa (...)
A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck Yakutia on Saturday.
According to Itar-Tass, the epicenter was located about 50 km away from the village of Syagannakh, the Aby district, at a depth of 15 km, the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of (...)
Six people died in a gas cylinder explosion in the city of Syktyvkar on Sunday night.
The Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations reported that the blast occurred in a ferroconcrete one-storied building (the former warehouse) re-equipped into (...)
A powerful cyclone is approaching Russia's Pacific coast. Primorye, Sakhalin and the Khabarovsk region have received a warning. The cyclone will hit the area overnight to Friday.
Icing of ships is forecasted in the ports of Vladivostok, Nakhodka and (...)
A severe cyclone has cut off power supplies to seven towns in the Primorsky /Maritime/ territory, sources at the Far-Eastern Power Utility Company told Itar-Tass.
Repairs are highly impeded by a difficult situation on the automobile roads, as all (...)
AlHijjah 6, 1433, Oct 22, 2012, SPA -- A cyclone came to the Primorsky Territory on Monday. A warning about possible emergencies is issued for the region.
Torrential rains will hit Vladivostok, Nakhodka, Artyom and Patrizansk. The cyclone will go (...)
AlQa'dah 11, 1433, Sep 27, 2012, SPA -- A storm warning was issued in the Primorsky Territory on Thursday in view of an approaching cyclone.
An official at the Territorial hydrometer center told Itar-Tass that the cyclone would hit the region in the (...)
AlQa'dah 7, 1433, Sep 23, 2012, SPA -- An earthquake measuring 5.6 points on the Richter scale shook southern Sakhalin on Saturday evening. Employees of the seismic station in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk told Itar-Tass on Saturday that the tremors hadn't been (...)
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 occurred near Severnaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean overnight to Friday.
According to the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the epicenter of the earthquake was situated at the northern coast (...)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has urged Asian countries embroiled in simmering territorial disputes to work together to ease rather than raise tensions.
Hillary Clinton ended a visit to the Russian seaport of Vladivostok for a (...)
Pacific Rim leaders have pledged to fend off the damage from the European crisis, by supporting open trade, reforming their economies and strengthening public finances.
The 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum wrapped up an annual (...)
Two quakes occurred off the Kuril Islands on Sunday.
According to Itar-Tass, the first tremor measuring 5.6 points on the Richter scale happened near the Paramushir Island, the Severo-Kurilsk seismological station reported. The town felt the tremor (...)
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Saturday to work closely together to resolve the North Korean nuclear standoff and continue cooperation on a project to build a gas pipeline stretching from Russia (...)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have signed an inter-governmental memorandum on mutual understanding in cooperation in Antarctica and a joint statement on strengthening Russian-US inter-regional (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin met today with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao on the sidelines of Economic Cooperation Forum for Asia & the Pacific in the Russian city of Vladivostok.
During the meeting, matters regarding bilateral relations and (...)
Forest fires have raged in Yakutsk on the area of 2,300 hectares, the Emergency Main Directorate for the Republic of Sakha reported on Thursday.
A total of 17 hot spots have been registered in Yakutsk's forests. The smoke caused by the fire in the (...)
An earthquake registering 5.5 on the open-ended Richter scale occurred in the area of the Kuril Islands on Saturday, July 7.
It was centered in the Pacific off the unpopulated Island of Urup at a depth of 40 kilometers under the seabed. Two (...)