Five fields with hydrocarbons have been added to the list of discovered resources on Yamal Peninsula in the Russian Arctic.

Russia last week became the last of 47 countries to sign the European Convention on Human Rights.

The Russian State Duma yesterday adopted amendments in federal legislation on NGOs.

Regional authorities in Murmansk have approved plans for a major extention of the skiing resorts in Kirovsk, in the central part of the Kola Peninsula.

Both German and French scientists say they want to build new science stations for increased activity in the science community Ny-Ålesund on Svalbard.

The Canadian company Bredero Shaw and the Russian ArkhTekhnoProm have agreed to establish a pipe coating facility in Arkhangelsk. The plant will deliver pipes for the Bovanenkovo-Ukhta pipeline off the Yamal Peninsula.

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has urged power engineering specialists to fix energy failures without delays, Itar-Tass quotes him saying during a meeting with the regional development minister, Viktor Basargin, on Monday.

Gazprom has opened the Ob-Bovanenkovo railroad for working traffic. The 525 kilometer long railroad will make it possible to transport 3 million tons of goods per year between the Ob railroad station and the giant gas field Bovanenkovo

Interaction on border development has a positive character, Russia’s head representative in a Russian-EU project on border cooperation underlines.

Scientists have uncovered what appears to be a further dramatic increase in the leakage of methane gas that is seeping from the Arctic seabed.