President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed into law a long-contested measure allowing limited logging along the shores of Lake ...

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's prime minister vowed Tuesday to audit a prospective water bottling plant on the shores of the world's deepest freshwater lake, a listed world heritage site. Asked by a member ...

The President signed Federal Law On Amendments to Federal Law On Protecting Lake Baikal and Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation.

Russian authorities say Western sanctions have made it impossible to implement their plan to remove toxic waste from the watershed of Lake Baikal. The proposed solution: a cheaper method that a ...

LAKE BAIKAL, Russia — The Lake Baikal ice was the real star even among a gathering of some of Russia’s hockey greats. The ice in the Siberian UNESCO World Heritage site is famously clear, with cracks ...

Russian environmentalists have condemned a plan by authorities to allow a higher amount of dangerous substances to be dumped into Lake Baikal, which contains about 20 percent of the world's fresh ...

Though separated by half the world and wide cultural differences, Russia’s Lake Baikal and Lake Tahoe suffer similar problems caused by human use and visitation. But, as different as the languages ...

Russian scientists have deployed a giant telescope into the frigid depths of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia to search for the tiniest known particles in the universe. The telescope, Baikal-GVD, is ...

Alicja Barahona, a 64-year-old ultramarathoner, tackles a unique kind of race. Listvianka, Russia -- The Baikal Ice Marathon is a standard length marathon: 26 miles long. But there is nothing standard ...

"It’s been a warm winter in Baikal, as observed from space," Roscosmos said in comments to its posted pictures MOSCOW, January 15. /TASS/. Lake Baikal, the world's deepest lake located in Russia, has ...

Russian company Baikal Electronics has officially fired up its new Baikal-S processor, which has 48 cores based on the Arm Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). The CPU is codenamed "BE-S1000" and has ...

Summary of previous deliberations: At its twenty-second session (June 1998), the Bureau was informed that a number of laws for the national protection of the Lake existed and that the Duma had adopted ...