Nature And Ecology

June 02, 2025 16:43

• Anapa townspeople demand to speed up fuel oil pumping out from sunken tanker parts

  Authorities are delaying the liquidation of the environmental disaster without addressing the root cause thereof, Anapa residents have stated in their video appeal addressed to federal authorities, demanding to speed up the pumping out of oil products and lifting the sunken parts of the tankers.

June 01, 2025 17:31

• Due to fuel oil spill, Anapa loses about half of its tourists

  Amid the huge spill of fuel oil (mazut) in the Black Sea, the hotel occupancy rate in the Russian city of Anapa has decreased by 50% compared to the same last year’s period. Some hotels are in dire straits because they cannot return money to tourists for cancelled bookings, said a source from the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR).

May 29, 2025 18:24

• Tourist season in Anapa sparks disputes among local residents

  Despite the warnings made by the “Rospotrebnadzor” (Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing) and official bans on bathing, tourists continue filling the beaches of the city of Anapa. Disputes continue in the information field: some local bloggers assure that the sea is clean and everything is safe, while environmentalists and guest house owners, on the contrary, are voicing out alarms and talking about manipulations.

May 29, 2025 13:51

• Activists demand to stop construction in Verkhniy Gunib

  In their appeal, activists claim that capital structures are being erected in violation of laws and regulations on the territory of a specially protected natural park in Verkhniy Gunib.

May 26, 2025 14:35

• Vacationers ignore ban on swimming in Anapa

  In Anapa, the local beaches were filled with vacationers during the day on May 25. People were swimming in the sea and sunbathing right next to the protective ramparts, despite the fact that all the beaches in Anapa are officially closed, and works on cleaning up fuel oil are still underway on some of them.

May 22, 2025 13:58

• In Dagestan, more than half of water samples on beaches fail to comply with safety standards

  Monitoring of the condition of beach areas in Dagestan on the eve of the opening of the swimming season has shown that 12 out of 21 water samples taken by the “Rospotrebnadzor” (Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare) fail to comply with the safety standards. Almost the entire coastline in Dagestan is dangerous for swimming, since sewage discharges are spread into the sea, environmentalists note.

May 16, 2025 15:16

• Residents of Kuban alarmed by distribution of contaminated sand across region

  Sand cleared of fuel oil is being transported from the Voskresensky farm yard not far from Anapa to various villages and towns in the Krasnodar Territory to simulate the safe disposal promised by the authorities, residents of Kuban complain.

May 12, 2025 16:37

• Occupancy rates at Anapa hotels and number of bookings drop several-fold

  Tourists have cancelled 60% of bookings at a large Anapa hotel; and they have already received more than two million roubles back. Employees of another hotel have confirmed that their bookings have dropped several-fold after the fuel oil (mazut) spill.

May 02, 2025 16:58

• Kuban environmentalists doubt statements on harmlessness of Black Sea fish

  The pollution with the spilled fuel oil (mazut) affects all marine life, but it is impossible to objectively define how poisoned the fish caught in the Black Sea is due to the absence of independent laboratories.

April 28, 2025 15:27

• Authorities count over 22,000 refusals of children's vacations in Anapa

  More than 22,000 refusals of making trips to children's camps in Anapa (Crimea), which are located in the emergency zone of the fuel oil (mazut) spill, have been registered. This was reported by Alexander Bugaev, the First Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation.

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