A grim city dubbed “the most depressing on Earth” is so remote it can’t be reached by road and so polluted life expectancy is ten years lower than the national average. The most northerly city in the ...

It was 2 a.m. and the sun was shining, as it does day and night in mid-July in Norilsk, a Siberian city 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Igor Klyushin went to the bank of the river where he used ...

NORILSK, Russia -- Photographer Aleksandr Kharitonov grew up in the remote Russian mining city of Norilsk, located above the Arctic Circle. His images of its landscapes, remnants of its Soviet past, ...

Additionally, before 2024, the city’s 1,860 families will receive social payments to buy new housing in regions with a better climate and social-economic conditions MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. The ...

AMMA will be the world’s northernmost museum of modern arts KRASNOYARSK, June 15. /TASS/. The Arctic Museum of Modern Art (AMMA), which will be the northernmost museum of the kind, will open by 2025 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has backed a proposal to declare a state of emergency on a federal scale, days after a diesel fuel leak seeped into local rivers, threatening an ecological disaster in ...

Moscow — Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared a state of emergency in the Siberian city of Norilsk after a massive fuel leak spilled into a river. Environmentalists call it one of the worst ...

Residents of Norilsk long felt isolated from their country’s turbulence. Then a mining company strung a fiber-optic cable across 600 miles of tundra. By Anton Troianovski NORILSK, Russia — On a screen ...

A criminal investigation has been launched in Russia into the cause of a massive oil spill into a Siberian river that threatens Arctic waterways and which could take years to clean up. A fuel tank at ...