- 17:10 21/11/2007
The number of birds killed by the oil spill in the Kerch Strait will keep growing, a member of the WWF volunteer group said Wednesday. 
- 18:57 19/11/2007
Fishing and hunting losses from a fuel oil spill in a strait between the Black and Azov seas are estimated at over $160 million, the Russian agricultural watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said on Monday.
- 17:23 18/11/2007
Russia has temporarily banned river-class vessels from sailing into seas, the Transport Ministry said on Sunday. The ministry said Project 576 and Project 2188 river-class vessels are prohibited to sail into seas until the incidents with the Russian ships in the Kerch Strait between the Black and Azov Seas are investigated.
- 20:22 16/11/2007
Birds are continuing to die in southern Russia following an oil spill in the strait that links the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov, a bird protection organization said on Friday.
- 17:31 16/11/2007
Birds are continuing to die in southern Russia following an oil spill in the strait that links the Azov and the Black seas, a bird protection organization said Friday.
- 19:15 15/11/2007
Fuel oil that flowed from a split tanker into a strait between the Black and Azov seas four days ago may reach the Azov within the next 24 hours, weather experts said on Thursday.
- 17:22 15/11/2007
Fuel oil that flowed from a split tanker into a strait between the Black and Azov seas four days ago may reach the Azov within the next 24 hours, weather experts said on Thursday.
- 16:33 14/11/2007
The concentration of oil products in a strait linking the Black Sea and Sea of Azov is 50 times above maximum acceptable levels after a tanker split open during Sunday's storm, Russian experts said on Wednesday.
- 12:52 14/11/2007
Russia has started delivering special agents to help clean up the environmental aftermath of Sunday's tragedy between the Black and Azov Seas, an emergency ministry official said on Wednesday.
- 20:36 13/11/2007
Russia's prime minister has instructed ministries and departments to take measures to eliminate the environmental consequences of Sunday's tragedy between the Black Sea and Azov Sea in 40-45 days.
- 17:18 13/11/2007
Experts said it will take six months for oil products spilled into the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov at the weekend to dissolve or be washed ashore.
- 16:55 13/11/2007
Six sailors are confirmed dead after their ships sank between the Black and Azov seas two days ago, and 2,000 tons of fuel oil, more than previously thought, has spilled into the sea, officials said.
- 21:23 12/11/2007
- 17:41 12/11/2007
Russia's emergencies ministry announced on Monday the launch of a major operation in a Black Sea strait to contain an oil spill after an oil tanker sank in a storm.
- 15:14 12/11/2007
Greenpeace warned that Sunday's fuel oil spill between the Black and Azov Seas could destroy rare fauna, but a Russian lawmaker said the damage was no worse than everyday industrial pollution.
- 13:29 12/11/2007
Russia's emergencies ministry announced on Monday the launch of a major operation in the Black Sea to contain a fuel oil spill after a Sunday storm sank several cargo ships and a tanker.
- 10:01 12/11/2007
Emergency services have found three bodies and continue the search for five sailors missing from one of four ships which sank during a powerful storm between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea at the weekend.
- 18:24 11/11/2007
Several crew are missing after at least six Russian vessels have been hit by a storm in the Kerch Strait in the Sea of Azov in southern Russia, the emergencies ministry said on Sunday.
- 17:39 11/11/2007
- 15:43 11/11/2007
Two crewmembers have died and one is missing after a Russian cargo ship sank off the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in Ukraine, a regional administration official said on Sunday.
- 15:21 11/11/2007
A second cargo ship loaded with sulfur sank during a storm on Sunday at the Kavkaz port in the Sea of Azov in Russia's south, with the crew unhurt in the incident.
- 13:39 11/11/2007
A second tanker has been hit by storm in the Kerch Strait in the Sea of Azov in Russia's south, the Novorossiisk transport prosecutor said on Sunday. "The tanker Volganeft-123 is currently in distress. Its crew has discovered a crack in the tanker's hull but there is no oil leak," Maxim Stepanenko said in a live interview with the Vesti TV channel.
- 12:05 11/11/2007
A cargo ship carrying 2,000 metric tons of sulfur sank during a storm at the port of Kavkaz in southern Russia, the Novorossiisk port administration said on Sunday. "According to reports from the Kavkaz port, a dry cargo ship sank in the Sea of Azov. The crewmembers boarded a rescue raft. Their life is not in danger," said Vladimir Yerygin, the head of the Novorossiisk port administration.
- 11:48 11/11/2007
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