Flames and smoke over the Gulf of Finland have turned Russia's main Baltic oil gateway into a battlefield, as a wave of 221 drones ripped through air defenses and set critical fuel infrastructure ...

On September 12, 2025, Primorsk, Russia’s largest oil export hub in the Baltic region, experienced a significant drone attack.

A fire broke out at the Avangard plant in the Russian city of St Petersburg on the night of 28-29 May. The plant specialises in microelectronics production and is classified as a company of strategic ...

Russia's largest cities, Moscow and Saint Petersburg, will be particularly impacted by the population decrease predicted to occur in Russia over the next 20 years, the Russian state-controlled media ...

St. Petersburg canceled New Year's Eve celebrations at short notice following missile attacks on the Russian city of Belgorod near the Ukrainian border. The decision not to hold a concert to see in ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's second biggest city of St. Petersburg recorded a death rate last month 32% higher than last year, official data showed on Wednesday, suggesting that there may be more ...

A fire broke out on the Russian icebreaker ship Yermak at a port in St. Petersburg on Thursday, officials said. Andrey Litovka, head of the press service of the city's Ministry of Emergency Situations ...

MOSCOW, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday it had decided to close Poland's consulate general in St. Petersburg in response to Poland's decision to close the Russian consulate in Poznan. The ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian farming conglomerate Rusagro has begun exporting sunflower oil from the St Petersburg terminal (PNT) on the Baltic Sea as it seeks to overcome bottlenecks at Black Sea ports ...

A huge fire tore through an online retailer's warehouse in St. Petersburg in Russia on Saturday with video showing intense flames and thick black smoke rising high into the clear morning sky. Nearly ...

Russia’s “foreign agent” law, established in 2012 to identify individuals and organizations that received international funding, has become a tool to criminally prosecute and ban from public life ...