The major oil spill off the southern coast of Russia killed over 15,000 birds and poisoned over 20,000, the state agricultural and natural resources monitoring agency has confirmed.
“It is impossible to determine the exact number of perished birds due to the fact that the dead birds were swept to the beach and covered by some […]

As hundreds of Russian soldiers have been deployed to clean up a 2,000-tonne oil spill in the weather has deteriorated, in the worse storms to hit the region in thirty years.
Officials are now warning of “an environmental catastrophe” as high winds and heavy rain continued to lash Russia’s southern coastline. Thousands of tonnes of spilled […]

As the political wranglings continue about the oil spill in San Francisco bay, a greater ecological catastrophe is unfolding between Russia and Ukraine.
A tanker carrying 4,000 tonnes of oil broke up yesterday in heavy seas off the Crimean peninsula, splitting in half. One senior official has called it an “environmental disaster”.

A plan to build a pipeline to reduce central and eastern Europe’s dependence on Russian oil has been signed by five former communist countries in Lithuania.
Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Azerbaijan and Georgia agreed to back an extension to the Odessa to Brody pipeline through Ukraine, to take it to Plock in Poland.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he is against the creation of state energy “monster” that would straddle the entire economy, sucking away banking and other resources, the Kremlin has reported on Thursday.
When asked about a possible merger between state controlled Gazprom (the world’s biggest gas company by reserves, and Rosneft, Russia’s largest oil […]