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Since an earthquake shook this Russian town on Sakhalin Island in the Pacific Ocean, Ivan Popov has been living in a garage.
The crude shack feels much safer than the town’s Soviet-built apartment blocks, many of which crumpled in the quake. “I don’t ever want to live in an apartment again,” the former sailor said.

A moderate earthquake with the magnitude of 5.5 has struck the coast of the Kuril Islands on Russia’s far eastern region, near Japan.
The earthquake occurred 177 kilometers southwest of Severo-Kurilsk, a small town with a population of 2,592 on the northern part of the Kuril Islands, on Tuesday at 1:16 p.m. local time.

An American missionary jailed in Sakhalin was the topic of a meeting between U.S. Consul General in Vladivostok Tom Armbruster and Sakhalin Region Vice Governor Natalya Novikova.
The regional authorities are closely following the situation surrounding the case of the 66-year-old American missionary, Pastor Park Hyo Sun of the Grace of God religious organization in Kholmsk, […]

Russia stepped up the pressure on British-listed energy and mining companies yesterday with an influential Moscow regulator alleging that some of them were “cheating” investors by exaggerating their reserves.
Oleg Mitvol, deputy head of the environmental watchdog Rosprirodnadzor, called on the London Stock Exchange and other authorities in the UK to stamp out the alleged abuses.

Russia’s environmental regulator said Friday it had found new legal violations committed by Gazprom-controlled Sakhalin Energy, which operates the Sakhalin II oil and gas project off the country’s Pacific Coast.
Rosprirodnadzor’s branch in Sakhalin said its experts had found that a subsidiary of Sakhalin Energy, building a stretch of a pipeline crossing several rivers, had failed […]

Yesterday three new earthquakes shook the Sakhalin Region. Although they didn’t cause any damage and victims, nobody can surely say they were the last aftershocks and all is over.The first 3.3-magnitude aftershock was registered 34 kilometeres north of the town of Nevelsk, which was partially destroyed by the last earthquake on 2 August. Since then […]