Russian President Vladimir Putin calls the incident an "ecological disaster" as officials and volunteers attempt to clean ...

Partisans in Sochi have identified a Russian Pantsir-S1 air defense system. It has been placed right on a beach frequented by ...

Russia Wednesday expanded an operation to clean up thousands of tonnes of oil that spilt into the sea and contaminated 50 kilometres of beaches after tanker ships were wrecked in a storm.

He said earlier that oil had washed up along tens of kilometers of Russia’s coastline. Videos geolocated by CNN showed a beach near Anapa, north of the city of Novorossiysk, has been flooded ...

Towns where a state of emergency has been declared on Dec 17 Two Russian tankers were wrecked in a storm on December 15, with one - the Volgoneft-212 tanker - sinking. They were carrying around ...