A Russian passenger plane has made an emergency landing in a cornfield near Moscow after striking a flock of birds. At least 74 people were injured in the incident, which saw the plane land with ...

Russia has reported the first case of a bird flu strain, H5N8, being passed from poultry to humans. Officials said seven workers at a poultry plant in the south of the country had been infected ...

In sight were annual visitors — sandpipers, water rails, spotted crakes and ruffs among other migratory birds who flew all the way from Russian and European winterlands and across the Himalayas.

Russia announced on Saturday that its scientists had detected the world's first case of transmission of the H5N8 strain of avian flu from birds to humans and had alerted the World Health Organization.

(MENAFN) A rescue center for birds affected by a large oil spill has been set up in Anapa, a city in Russia’s southern Krasnodar Region, following the sinking of two tankers over the weekend.