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What does the weather mean for Russian agriculture?

March 29, 2012 Alexander Chetverikov
Some have suggested that Russia should welcome global warming as it would make more of the country’s land farmable, but that approach is a little naïve

Valenki: A Russian necessity

January 7, 2012 Russia Beyond the Headlines
The iconic Russian felt boots, valenki, are very popular, and even essential in the countryside due to the country’s severe climate. Today many valenki are made in the villages of the Altai Region

Building on melting ground

December 23, 2011 Nadezhda Petrova, Kommersant-Vlast
Between 60 and 70 percent of Russia’s vast landmass is covered by permafrost. Developing oil and gas fields pose a bigger threat to the permafrost than global warming

One degree more

August 20, 2010 Yuri Medvedev, Rossiiskaya Gazeta
What is in store for Russia if hot summers become the norm?

Moscow in the Murk

August 10, 2010 Svetlana Smetanina
If someone had told me in winter that I would start hating the summer and dream of rain (or better yet, snow) like manna from heaven, I would have laughed in their face...

Moscow resembles apocalyptic movie scene (+mulitmedia)

August 10, 2010 Russia Today
After a few hours of relief on Monday, millions of Russians are again waking up to a thick layer of smog as forest and peat fires continue to rage across the country.

Moscow on fire: view from space (+cartoon "From hell to hell")

August 9, 2010
Fires continued burning around Moscow, forcing airports to delay flights, and prompting locals to stay indoors or venture out only with gauze masks.

The Russian Bear suffers through a heat wave

July 29, 2010 Hugo Natowicz, Special to Russia Beyond the Headlines
What happens when a sweltering air mass lingers over a country better known for ice and snow? A look at an unusual event with heavy consequences.

Smog blankets Moscow on city's hottest day

July 27, 2010 Combined reports from Reuters, Interfax and Bloomberg
Moscow sweltered on Monday through its hottest day since records began 130 years ago, as temperatures hit 37.4 degrees Celsius (99.3 degrees Farenheit) sparking peat fires that blanketed the city in smog.

Dealing with Russians? Check the weather

February 24, 2010 Stephen Dalziel, Executive Director, Russo-British Chamber of Commerce
View from London

Copenhagen didn’t change the climate

December 24, 2009 Ilya Zinenko, Gazeta
Environment: The Kremlin stresses the need for coordinated action to curb carbon dioxide emissions

"Climate change no good for any country, even Russia"

December 19, 2009 RIA Novosti
Russian experts are at odds over the effects climate change would have on Russia.

Climate change barriers

December 3, 2009 Mikhail Gorbachev, former USSR president
The German people, and the whole world alongside them, recently celebrated a landmark date in history: the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Not many events remain in the collective memory as a watershed that divides two distinct perio

Will there be tropical fruits in Siberia within 50 years?

March 25, 2009 Christina Sandalova, Gazeta.ru
Scientists have presented a new climate strategy

Weather control? Yes, it is really possible...

March 25, 2009 Sergey Poulinetz, moscow

Will UN conference in Poznan save the climate?

December 5, 2008 Andrei Fedyashin, RIA Novosti
One more UN conference on climate change started in Poznan, Poland December 1 to end December 12. Delegations from 192 countries will draft recommendations which would update or succeed the 1997 Kyoto protocol

A Global Warning

October 25, 2007 Alexander Yakovenko

Each Country Brings Its Own Agenda to Bali

October 25, 2007 Mikhail Belyat/RBTH