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Major Fuel Spill in Russian Arctic Moves Closer to Arctic Ocean: Regional Official
Jun 10 2020 // Diesel fuel from a major spill in Russia’s Arctic has reached a pristine lake which is the basin for a river flowing into the Arctic Ocean, a regional official said on Tuesday, but the mining giant embroiled in the...
Massive Fuel Spill in Siberia Blamed on Melting Permafrost – or Climate Change
Jun 4 2020 // A massive fuel spill in Siberia prompted Russia to declare a state of emergency in the region as the mining company involved said the catastrophe may have been caused by climate change. Scientists have warned for years...
Senators Seek to Expand U.S. Sanctions to Insurance for Russia-Europe Pipeline
Jun 4 2020 // U.S. senators will announce a bill this week expanding sanctions on Russia’s Gazprom-led Nord Stream 2 project, Senate aides said, targeting a pipeline Washington says will make Europe too reliant on Russian gas. The...
U.S. Warns Partners, Industrial Firms About Russian Hacking Operation
May 29 2020 // The U.S. National Security Agency on Thursday warned government partners and private companies about a Russian hacking operation that uses a special intrusion technique to target operating systems often used by industrial...
Russia Blamed for Massive Cyber Attack Against Nation of Georgia in 2019
Feb 21 2020 // Georgia accused Russian military intelligence of organizing a “paralyzing” cyber attack last year and called for a reaction by the international community. Russia’s GRU was behind the...
California Vineyard Spills Nearly 100K Gallons of Red Wine into River
Jan 27 2020 // More than 97,000 gallons of red wine spilled from a tank at a vineyard in Sonoma County and eventually leaked into the Russian River, an accident officials said could hurt water quality in the 110-mile tributary flowing...
Insurance Journal’s Top 10 Cyber Risk Stories of 2019
Jan 7 2020 // Cyber risks were cited as the top concern among businesses of all sizes in 2019, according to a Travelers report released in October. Of the 1,200 business leaders who participated in an insurer-sponsored survey, 55% said...
Was It an Act of War? That’s Merck Cyber Attack’s $1.3 Billion Insurance Question.
Dec 3 2019 // By the time Deb Dellapena arrived for work at Merck & Co.’s 90-acre campus north of Philadelphia, there was a handwritten sign on the door: The computers are down. It was worse than it seemed. Some employees who...
Dam Collapse in Siberia Kills At Least 15 Gold Miners
Oct 21 2019 // At least 15 gold miners were killed on Saturday when a dam collapsed, flooding an artisanal mining encampment in a remote part of Siberia, officials said. Heavy rains had weakened the dam and water broke through, sweeping...
Russia Aims to Boost Arctic Shipping by Subsidizing Higher Costs, Including Insurance
Oct 21 2019 // Russia wants to make its Arctic waters more attractive to shippers than the Suez Canal and could be willing to compensate for potential risks to make that happen. President Vladimir Putin has made development of the Arctic...
Conservative TV Channel Sues MSNBC’s Maddow for Calling It ‘Paid Propaganda’
Sep 11 2019 // A conservative television network has sued MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow for more than $10 million for calling it “paid Russian propaganda.” One America News filed the federal defamation suit in San Diego. The...
Following Deadly Blast, Russia Launches Floating Nuclear Reactor
Aug 23 2019 // Russia’s Rosatom shipped its first floating nuclear-power reactor on Friday, setting the unit off on a barge journey among Arctic ice caps, raising concerns in the wake of a recent military accident that caused a...
Nuclear Watchdog Says Russia Resumes Sharing Radiation Data
Aug 21 2019 // Russia has resumed sharing data from its radiation monitoring stations in Siberia after some were taken offline following a deadly explosion at a missile range, a nuclear weapons watchdog said Tuesday. The mysterious...
Putin Vows Russian Nuclear Accident That Killed 5 Scientists Poses No Further Risk
Aug 20 2019 // President Vladimir Putin said there’s no risk from the explosion at a Russian military facility that caused a radiation spike and killed at least five people. “There’s no threat there and no increase in...
Russia’s Yandex Accelerates Driverless Car Testing
Aug 19 2019 // Yandex, a Russian equivalent to Google, said it is considering expanding its fleet of self-driving cars to up to 1,000 within the next two years in order to speed up tests on the fledgling technology. Yandex hopes to start...
Sun Valley Climate Conference’s Broad Agenda: Wildfires, Military, Insurance, Resilience
Aug 1 2019 // Washington had a record 1,850 responses to wildfires on Department of Natural Resources lands last year. Over the last five years, wildfires have continued to hit the state hard. One state official, who believes climate...
Russian Aeroflot Plane Hit by Lightning Before It Crashed, Killing 41: Investigators
Jun 17 2019 // Lightning struck a Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft knocking out its auto pilot system shortly before it crash landed in Moscow last month killing 41 people, investigators said on Friday, adding it had approached too...
Russia’s Aeroflot Cuts Superjet Flights After Fatal Crash in May
Jun 4 2019 // Russian airline Aeroflot has scaled back the number of Sukhoi Superjet 100 flights it operates after one of its planes made a crash-landing last month, killing 41 people, according to data provided by a flight tracking...
Recent Airline Crashes Don’t Reflect Aviation Safety Record
May 10 2019 // With plane crashes making headlines recently, one in Florida with no fatalities and another in Russia that killed dozens, travelers might question whether flying has become less safe. Aviation experts regard the recent...
Aeroflot Plane Makes Fiery Emergency Landing at Moscow Airport, Killing 41 People
May 6 2019 // An Aeroflot PJSC plane on a domestic Russian flight made a fiery emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, killing 41 people. Flight SU1492 to Murmansk, a Sukhoi Superjet, suffered an engine fire after...
