The construction of the Kerch Strait Bridge between the Russian Taman peninsula and the annexed Crimea causes serious concerns, as stated by ecologist, Olexandr Sokolenko.

The expert said that even in Soviet times no one built a bridge there because of the peculiar landscape of the sea bottom, which can cause the bridge to collapse.

"No wonder that in the days of the war the fascists were unable to build it. Nobody took up this project in Soviet times, because there is a very complex geology …

In Russia, since August 6, 2015, about 17,000 tons of food products imported from countries that fell under Russia’s food embargo have been destroyed, the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) reported.

The territorial offices in Bryansk, Smolensk, Tver and Pskov regions located on the administrative border with Belarus are the most active in identifying the sanction products because the main attempts to smuggle prohibited products go through those …

In an interview with the television program Persha Spalta, Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine Ihor Nasalik said that the purchase of coal from the United States of America is a justified step and it has nothing to do with corruption.  

“Regarding Pennsylvania - this is not a corruption scheme, this issue was worked out with the U.S. State Department, with the embassy, and at the presidential level. To say that there is some kind of corrupt scheme is ridiculous…The price that was …

Russia will seek access to its diplomatic residences in the United States and will not give up the right to them, stated the former Russian Ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak on Russia 24 TV, RIA Novosti reports. "We are going to fight [for this property]; we will never give up our rights to this dacha. And we'll see what happens next," Kislyak said.

Kislyak accused the USA of violating international law. "They deprived us of access to our property. The Soviet state had paid a lot …

The American company, Avellana Gold, has developed a project to extract gold and gold-polymetallic ore in Transcarpathia (Zakarpattia Region of Ukraine), and will invest about $100 million in this project, as reported by the State Service of Ukraine on Geodesy, Cartography, and Cadastre.

The company plans to develop new infrastructure and a development strategy for the Muzhijevo deposit using modern equipment. The old infrastructure of the Muzhijevo deposit limited the capacity of the mine, …

Russia intends to respond to all unfriendly actions of the US, as stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov following a meeting with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Manila, Russian Foreign Ministry reported.

The representatives of the Russian Federation and the United States discussed the crisis in relations at the meeting. In this regard, Lavrov said that “the US bill on sanctions against Russia had become another link in a chain of steps that are unfriendly and dangerous to …

Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski told RIA Novosti in an interview that there is no Ukrainian crisis, but there is Moscow’s aggression against Kyiv.

“Let’s start by identifying problems. There is no Ukrainian crisis, there is Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Russia sent its forces to capture the Crimea, Russia initiated the rebellion in the Donbas,” the head of the foreign policy department stressed.

“We all know who sent the forces: Russia deployed the forces to capture the …

Russia introduced temporary power outage schedule for the southern coast of Crimea as a result of the maximum load on the Simferopol – Yalta power lines being exceeded, as stated by the Ministry of Energy of Russia, according to Interfax.

"On August 6th, at 10:33 Moscow time, an order was issued to introduce timetables for the temporary shutdown of consumption in the amount of 8 MW (...) in the power sector for the south coast of Crimea. The reason for this is the exceeding of the permissible …