Authorities in Russia’s Volgograd region and the Republic of Tatarstan have signed at least 14 government contracts for ...

Vast stretches of Russian coast have been tarred by heavy fuel oil from two freighters that foundered in a storm.

Volunteers flooded the beaches to help with cleanup eventually prompting the federal government to step to help clean up ...

Activists say the spill - caused after two ships ran were battered by a storm - could cover an area of 400 sq km.

Emergency teams were continuing to clean up a massive oil spill staining the Kerch Strait in Russia. Footage shows excavators scooping up the black slick along the Crimean and Russian coasts.

Specialists of the Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor) have conducted over 800 tests of fish harvested in the Black Sea but found no inconsistences ...

The oil was released by two aging Russian tankers that were damaged during a heavy storm in the Kerch Strait on Dec. 15 ... and traveled to the resort town of Anapa as the new year approached.

Satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify have shown a major oil slick spreading across the Kerch Strait that ... on a beach in Anapa - some 40 miles from the strait. BBC Verify has analysed reports ...

Heavy fuel oil has been washing up on hundreds of kilometers of beaches along Russia’s southern coast since two aging Russian tankers were caught in a storm in the Kerch Strait on Dec. 15. Russians in ...