Russian private medical company Invitro says a quarter of its COVID-19 antibody tests in Russia has come back positive, and in the regions of Siberia and Ural the average daily number has been surpassing 50 percent since mid-November

Russia's Kuzbass region has announced on Tuesday that an experimental initiative to establish quotas on harmful emissions has begun in Novokuznetsk, as part of a federal project to improve air quality in the city

A fire in the five-story residential building in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk after the explosion of household gas has been contained, more than 30 people have been evacuated from the burning building, a spokesman for the regional emergency services told Sputnik

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refuted on Friday claims that the deadly explosion that took place in Russia's southern city of Magnitogorsk in December 2018, officially attributed to a malfunction of gas equipment, was caused by a terrorist act

Russian plants may disclose data on air emissions, currently classified as a commercial secret, and submit it to scientists so they can create models on how to improve air quality in cities that are part of the "Fresh Air" project, Deputy Director of the Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory (MGO), a part of federal weather agency Rosgidromet, Sergey Chicherin, told Sputnik

The World Trade Organization (WTO) decided on Friday to create an arbitration panel to settle the Russian-EU dispute on EU anti-dumping measures on certain cold-rolled flat steel products from Russia, the Russian Ministry of Economic Development said in a statement

The Russian Investigative Committee said Friday that explosion of cooking gas remained the major version of the recent deadly collapse of a residential building in Magnitogorsk, but the investigators were working on all possible causes