Environment

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Russian Children’s Ombudsman urges prompt jumping of volunteers into emergency efforts

Russia’s Child Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova believes it necessary to remove red tape obstructing prompt jumping of volunteers into rescue efforts during emergencies.

13:19 31.08.2021

Appeals court reverses $1 million ruling against Sheremetyevo airport

The Tenth Commercial Court of Appeals reversed a lower court ruling against AO International Airport Sheremetyevo that had been ordered to pay 74.3 million rubles (about $1 million) to the town of Khimki for the environmental damage.

17:02 20.07.2021

Chinese poachers who crossed Russian border to catch frogs sentenced to jail terms

A court in Primorsky Krai sentenced two Chinese citizens, who had illegally crossed the Russian border to catch frogs and fish, to 19 and 18 months in a penal colony.

11:54 16.06.2021

Prosecutors to check information on mass turtle mortality in regional reserve’s lake

Prosecutors will check information on the mass mortality of turtles in a lake in the Voronezh biosphere reserve, according to a statement of the Prosecutor General’s Office.

10:53 27.04.2021

President Putin proposes harmful emissions quotas for most polluted Russian regions

A system envisaging assignment of quotas pertaining to harmful emissions should be extended to all cities of Russia, where the problem of air quality is acute, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted in his address to the Federal Assembly.

13:33 21.04.2021

Persons accused of Amur sturgeon caviar resale face trial in Russia’s Vladivostok

A court in Vladivostok will hear a criminal case over illegal resale of roe of the Amur sturgeons listed in Russia’s Red Book.

10:59 24.03.2021

Sheremetyevo airport challenges ruling in environment harm case

AO International Airport Sherermetyevo has lodged an appeal against a ruling of the Commercial Court of the Moscow Region ordering it to pay 74.3 million rubles ($1 million) to the regional Ministry of Environment in an environment harm case.

10:59 16.03.2021

Norilsk officials face trial in 2020 fuel spillage disaster negligence case

The Norilsk City Court in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk Krai will hear a negligence case against a former deputy chief of the city administration’s Main Department for Civil Defense and Emergencies and one more division employee over fuel spillage in the region.

10:58 17.02.2021

Russian environmental watchdog’s $2 billion claim to Nornickel satisfied – court

The Commercial Court of the Krasnoyarsk region has decided to award damages caused to the environment in amount of 146 billion rubles (about $2 billion) claimed by the Yenisei Interregional Office of the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources (Rosprirodnadzor) against JSC Norilsk-Taymyr Energy Company (NTEC), a Nornickel subsidiary.

14:34 05.02.2021

Organizations to face fines for industrial disaster data hiding – bill

The Government Law-Making Commission has backed a draft law envisaging fines for hiding information on technogenic accidents dangerours for environment.

16:10 26.01.2021

Investigators complete probe into case over primary timber smuggling to China

Investigation into a criminal case over smuggling of valuable wood species from Russia to China has been completed.

13:12 11.12.2020

Ex-Mayor of Norilsk sentenced to community service for fuel spillage disaster negligence

The Norilsk City Court in the Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia’s North on Monday sentenced ex-Mayor of Norilsk Rinat Akhmetchin to 6 months of community service with a 15% wage deduction for negligence as to a fuel spillage in the region.

10:56 19.10.2020

Investigation launched into water pollution in Russia’s Kamchatka

Investigation was launched into pollution of the Pacific Ocean’s Avacha Bay aquatorium in Russia’s Kamchatka Krai and death of marine animals.

14:08 07.10.2020

Prosecutors urge criminal probe into water pollution in Russia’s Kamchatka

The Kamchatka Krai prosecutors have forwarded probe materials on the water body pollution in the peninsula to investigators in order a criminal case to be opened.

13:27 07.10.2020

Former Norilsk Mayor to stand negligence trial over fuel spillage disaster

The Norilsk City Court in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk Krai will try former Mayor of Norilsk Rinat Akhmetchin charged with negligence over the fuel spillage disaster in the region has been completed.

13:51 14.09.2020

Probe into ex-Norilsk Mayor accused of negligence over fuel spillage disaster completed

Investigation into the former Mayor of Norilsk, a city in the Krasnoyarsk Krai, Rinat Akhmetchin charged with negligence over the fuel spillage disaster in the region has been completed.

16:26 09.09.2020

Russian parliament’s lower house adopts bill on land oil spills prevention and liquidation

Russia’s lower house of parliament passed a bill aimed at prevention and liquidation of oil and oil products spills on land in the third and final reading on Tuesday.

17:00 07.07.2020

Russia’s Cabinet approves amendments to bill on prevention and liquidation of land oil spills

Russia’s government has approved amendments to a bill aimed at prevention and liquidation of oil and oil products spills on land.

17:52 25.06.2020

Rights advocates urge MPs to reject bill on use of national parks for business purposes

Russia’s Presidential Human Rights Council has urged the State Duma to reject a bill envisaging that the status of land plots in national parks could be changed. The rights activists believe if approved the document in its present version will bring destruction of special protection national territories.

14:06 22.06.2020

Probe opened into wastewater discharge to river in Russia’s North

An environmental offence case has been launched against employees companies Norilsk Nickel and Mekhanobr Engineering over wastewater discharge to Tomulakh river in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk Krai.

14:03 16.06.2020