A top secret Soviet nuclear complex contaminated its environs for 40 years, exposing thousands of people in the vicinity to radiation

Tantulum, a metal that does not corrode, is sought for its incredible property

High Speed Civil Transport, a joint US-Russian project to test Russia's supersonic airplane, the TU-144L on which future concords are to be modelled is underway at the Tupolev aviation complex in

The main source of the illegal trade in ozone gobbling chemicals, the mafia in Russia is now in the line of fire

Biological weapons, toxic industrial wastes and pesticides

AS IF a deep economic crisis was not enough, Russians have to now contend with the snowballing effect of the AIDS epidemic. Earlier, as part of the Soviet Union, the people led a

Pollutants discharged from Russian smelters, worth millions of dollars, can be profitably extracted

Conservationists draw up strategies to arrest the rapid decimation of the great Siberian tiger

An old plan to lug deadly radioactive wastes to the remote corners of the solar system is being revived by some Russian scientists

A RUSSIAN space probe to Mars which lifted off on schedule on November 16 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, crashed into the southern Pacific Ocean, west of South America, near the Easter