MOSCOW, January 26. /TASS/. The Russian government has allocated 1.5 billion rubles ($15.3 mln) from its reserve fund to eliminate the consequences of the Black Sea emergency, the Cabinet reported on ...

Russian officials say rescue workers have successfully removed almost 1,500 tons of oil stranded onboard a tanker that ran ...

Rescue workers have successfully removed nearly 1,500 tons of oil from a stranded tanker involved in a significant oil spill ...

Russians are ditching their summer holiday plans at popular Black Sea destinations because of an oil spill, while local ...

Ukraine has accused Russia of a cover-up over the spill of thousands of barrels of oil from two tankers that split in two ...

The oil spilled from two wrecked Russian tankers has reached the shores of the southern Krasnodar region in Russia.

In the Black Sea, Russia is dealing with what experts in and outside Russia say might be the worst environmental disaster the country has seen this century. Thousands of tons of heavy fuel oil leaked ...

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

The head of state also invited Minister of Emergencies Alexander Kurenkov, Minister of Natural Resources Alexander Kozlov, and Minister of Transport Roman Starovoyt to speak on the topic ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, expressed his dissatisfaction with the Emergency Situations Ministry's inadequate response to the oil spill caused by the ...

Moscow (AFP) – Fresh oil started pouring from a stricken Russian tanker in the Black Sea on Friday, said officials in Moscow, as Ukraine warned of "terrible environmental consequences" from the ...