Russia: Rusal Sayanal fined RUB 4 mln. for air pollution in Khakassia
[Summary translation prepared by Business & Human Rights Centre]
Rusal Sayanal paid 4 million rubles for damage to atmospheric air in Khakassia, 29 December 2025
The metallurgical enterprise JSC Rusal Sayanal (part of JSC Rusal) paid 4 million rubles for environmental damage to atmospheric air in the Republic of Khakassia. In early December 2025, inspectors from the environmental regulator found that the enterprise had exceeded permitted pollutant levels at its industrial site in the city of Sayanogorsk.
The violations concerned exceedances of permissible emissions of nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, aluminium oxide (dialuminium trioxide), and hydrogen fluoride.