MOSCOW: Russia's emergencies ministry says that parts of the western coast Sakhalin island, situated close to Japan on Russia's Pacific seaboard, were under threat of tsunami, and that the local population was being evacuated, state news agency TASS reported on Monday (Jan 1).
In another signal of the growing relationship between the two countries, the Russian news site Kommersant said on Monday that airlines have been invited to prepare for regular flights to North Korea.
Russia's Marine Rescue Service has begun pumping fuel from an oil tanker that last week ran aground off the southwestern coast of Sakhalin Island, the state-run TASS news agency reported Tuesday.
Russia's Marine Rescue Service has begun pumping fuel from an oil tanker that last week ran aground off the southwestern coast of Sakhalin Island, the state-run TASS news agency reported Tuesday.
Russia’s Sakhalin region has become the first in the country to set carbon quotas, the latest step in its goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2025. In light of President Vladimir Putin's 2021 announcement of Russia’s aim to reach climate neutrality by 2060, Sakhalin has emerged as a testing ground for mechanisms that could pave the way for a carbon-neutral economy first locally and eventually nationwide. “The quotas mark another step in establishing a carbon regulation framework in our country, albeit currently limited to one region,” Milena Milich, the special representative of the Sakhalin region governor on climate and sustainable development, told The Moscow Times.