Those who murdered the 15 year-old have received life sentences, but the ruling on racially motivated crime isn’t so ...

The oil products spill largely affected beaches where people rest, head of the Russian Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service, Rosselkhoznadzor, Sergey Dankvert added ...

Russia continues its Black Sea clean-up operation in the Kerch Strait, after last December’s oil spill from two storm-stricken Russian tankers, according to Russian authorities.

The spill appears to have moved quickly after the initial incident. On 24 December, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify showed oil accumulating on a beach in Anapa - some 40 miles from the strait.

Emergency teams were continuing to clean up a massive oil spill staining the Kerch Strait in Russia. Footage shows excavators scooping up the black slick along the Crimean and Russian coasts ...

Russia’s Transport Ministry said on Thursday that far less oil has leaked into the Black Sea than initially feared after two tankers wrecked during a storm last month in the Kerch Strait. According to ...

It has a crew of 14 people and was built in 1973. The Kerch Strait is a key route for exports of Russian grain and is also used for exports of crude oil, fuel oil and liquefied natural gas.

This photo taken from a video released by the Russian Southern Transport Prosecutor’s Office, shows the bow of a Volgoneft-212 tanker sinking after it was ripped away in high seas in the Kerch ...

Two oil tankers were damaged during a storm in the Kerch Strait, causing a major oil spill along the Russian coastline. The spill has contaminated dozens of kilometers of coastline, threatening ...

A tanker accident in the Black Sea has caused an oil spill, polluting the waters and coast. Oil is spilling into the Kerch Strait, where a russian tanker broke up during a storm. This is reported by ...