Day: June 4, 2020
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Head of Eviromet to lead Severstal’s Climate Strategy
June 5, 2020 PAO Severstal (MICEX-RTS: CHMF; LSE: SVST), one of the world’s largest vertically integrated steel and mining companies, announces the appointment of Olga Kalashnikova as its new Head of Environment to lead the Company’s strategy to reduce its carbon footprint and meet the climate challenge. The creation of this new role underlines Severstal’s…
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Russian Court in Crimea Jails Jehovah’s Witness for 6 Years
A court in Russian-annexed Crimea on Thursday sentenced a Jehovah’s Witness to six years in prison for organizing an extremist organisation, in the latest harsh sentence against the Christian movement. Crimea’s Supreme Court at an appeal hearing sentenced Artyom Gerasimov to six years in a penal colony, the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious organization said in a…
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Russia to Start Testing Coronavirus Vaccine on Paid Participants – Head of Study
Russia plans to start clinical testing of a coronavirus vaccine on paid volunteers from the general public from next week, Vadim Tarasov, the director of the institute in charge of the study told The Moscow Times on Thursday. According to Tarasov, there will be 50 participants, and those who complete the full trial will be…
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Coronavirus Seals Off City Near Secret Russian Nuclear Accident Site
Authorities have blocked access to a city in far northern Russia located near the site of last year’s mysterious nuclear testing accident as the coronavirus outbreak there intensified. The governor of the Arkhangelsk region signed an order to close public access to the city of Severodvinsk this Saturday, the city’s press service said Thursday. Severodvinsk…
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Putin Zeroes in on New Virus Hotspot in Far East Russia
President Vladimir Putin has ordered the military to set up a field hospital in a Far East Russian region he described as the latest coronavirus hotspot as Russia’s outbreak continues to shift outside Moscow. Putin shifted his focus to the remote Zabaikalsky region of 1 million residents some 5,000 kilometers east of Moscow two weeks…
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Russia Struggles to Clean Up Arctic River Fuel Spill
Russian emergency workers and marine clean-up specialists on Thursday intensified efforts to clean up a major fuel spill that environmentalists say is the first such accident in the Arctic polar region. A diesel reservoir collapsed at a power station outside the northern Siberian city of Norilsk on Friday, releasing 15,000 tons of fuel into a…
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Quarantined With Family, Russia’s LGBT Youth Face New Struggles
For Sasha, a queer, non-binary person from Moscow, the clashes at home first started around age 13 or 14. “It was basically made clear to me that I’ll never be accepted in my own family if I ‘keep having homosexual tendencies,’” Sasha, now 18, told The Moscow Times. For years they coped with the tension…
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Moscow to Spend $3Bln on Coronavirus Fight, Mayor Says
The city of Moscow will end up spending a total of 250 billion rubles ($3.1 billion) on fighting the coronavirus outbreak but will lose double that amount in revenue, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Thursday. The epicenter of Russia’s outbreak with over 40% of its 441,108 cases, Moscow allowed shops to reopen and residents to leave…
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Coronavirus in Russia: The Latest News | June 4
There have been 441,108 cases of coronavirus infections reported in Russia so far and 5,384 deaths. June 4: 3 things you need to know today Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has ordered to lift some of Moscow’s coronavirus restrictions starting June 1. All non-food shops and some service sector businesses will be able to re-open, he said. The city…
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U.S. Plane With 150 Donated Ventilators Lands in Russia
A US military plane carrying 150 donated ventilators to help coronavirus patients landed in Moscow on Thursday in the second such delivery to Russia, the U.S. embassy said. The plane brought the number of U.S.-manufactured ventilators sent by the United States to Russia to 200, after the first delivery arrived two weeks ago. U.S. ambassador…
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Massive Siberian Oil Spill Causes $80M in Waterway Damage – Greenpeace
A massive diesel spill into a Siberian river caused at least 6 billion rubles (more than $76 million) in damages to waterways above the Arctic Circle, Greenpeace Russia said Wednesday. President Vladimir Putin ordered a state of emergency Wednesday five days after more than 20,000 metric tons of diesel fuel spilled into rivers near the…
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Russia’s Coronavirus Cases Surpass 441K as Restrictions Ease
New infections have been steadily dropping since mid-May when officials were reporting daily increases of around 11,000 cases. Officials say Russia’s high virus count is the result of mass testing and that a steady decline in new infections and its low fatality numbers mean the country can begin to return to normal. Yet critics have…
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St. Petersburg’s Mortality Spikes by 30% in May – Official Data
Russia’s second-largest city St. Petersburg recorded almost 30% more deaths in May 2020 compared to its average May total over the past decade, official data said Wednesday. St. Petersburg saw 6,427 deaths in May this year, about 28% more than the nine-year average of 5,027 for May, according to civil registry data. The figures, first…