SIMFEROPOL, Oct 23 – The chemical plant manufacturing titanium dioxide, which is a subsidiary of Titanium Investment LLC in the town of Armiansk in the northern part of Crimea, has been given permission to resume operation after it was halted in early September due to a release of harmful emissions into the air from its acid holding basin.

"Employees of Rosprirodnadzor [the Russian Federal Service for the Monitoring of the Use of Natural Resources] on October 20 participated in the procedure to re-start the production facilities of the Titanium Investments plant," the press service of its Crimean department announced in a statement on October 22.