MOSCOW. May 29 (Interfax) - Director of the international department in the Natural Resources Ministry Igor Maidanov is meeting on May 29-30 with his colleagues from the environmental ministries of some European countries on the construction of the Nord Stream pipeline on the Baltic seafloor.

MOSCOW. July 26 (Interfax) - Oleg Mitvol, deputy head of natural resources watchdog Rosprirodnadzor, has accused Britain's Highland Gold Mining, the developer of the Maiskoye gold field in Chukotka, of illegally taking geological information out of Russia.

MOSCOW. July 16 (Interfax) - Water tests have shown the Ochakovo brewery in Moscow to be the source of the current pollution of the Neverka and the Setun rivers, the latter a tributary of the Moscow river, the Natural Resources Ministry said.

MOSCOW. March 26 (Interfax) - The Russian Prosecut

MOSCOW. Jan 29 (Interfax) - Federal funding for geological surveys increased 2.6 times, from 6.7 billion rubles to 17.5 billion, in 2004-2006, the Natural Resources Ministry press service quoted the Geology and Mineral Development Policy and Regulation Department Director Sergey Fyodorov as saying.