Officials from the Russian Emergencies Ministry have initiated an immediate rescue operation to save 200 individuals stranded ...

Russian Emergencies Ministry officials have launched an urgent mission to rescue 200 people trapped on a sheet of frozen ice.

The governor of Russia's Sakhalin Region said that a district has been placed on high alert following the stranding of a cargo vessel off the southwest coast Sakhalin Island. The governor of ...

It was unclear why so many fishermen had gathered at the location in Russia's Sakhalin region. Traditionally, the Sakhalin winter fishing season begins in early February with a period of active ...

MOSCOW (AP) — The governor of Russia’s Pacific island region of Sakhalin has declared an emergency after a Chinese cargo ship ran aground off its southwest coast. There was no danger to the ...

Global energy projects, including Arctic projects, are reportedly on the table as Russia and the US  are in “preliminary” ...

Russia’s emergency services said today that it had rescued all 139 fishermen stranded on an ice floe drifting in the Sea of Okhotsk in the Western Pacific. Earlier, the ministry said that about ...