Russian Athletics News. Svetlana Feofanova won the women's pole vault at the Athens Grand Prix meeting held in Greece. She cleared 4,68m. Yuliya Golubchikova placed second with 4,53m

The audience of users for this period has reached the amount of 31 million.

Vets are working to save the life of a Siberian tiger hit by a car in Russia's Far East, a regional conservationist group said on Tuesday.

Vladivostok has singed an agreement on development of tourism with the biggest cities of the Asia-Pacific region (APR) on Monday. Fukuoka (Japan), Honolulu (USA), Pusan (South Korea), Jakarta (Indonesia), Guangzhou (China), Ho Chi Minh and Hai Phong (Vietnam), Manila (Philippine)

A frigate of the French Navy, the Vendemiaire, arrived in Vladivostok on Monday on a three-day visit.

Korea Gas Corp., the world’s biggest buyer of liquefied natural gas, is seeking to take part in a Russian pipeline project to connect fields at Sakhalin with the port of Vladivostok near the North Korean frontier.

The Kuril Islands are going to be affected by a cyclone that is moving towards them from the Pacific Ocean. The cyclone will hit the islands ôå the afternoon, its maximal wind force is forecasted to reach 37 metres per

The amount of financial assistance to the region will grow by 300 billion rubles.

The U.S. missile cruiser Cowpens will start a four-day visit to Russia's Far East port of Vladivostok on May 7 to take part in Victory Day celebrations, a spokesman for Russia's Pacific Fleet said Wednesday.

The preparation for the All-Russian Population Census of 2010 is in full swing in Primorye. "All-Russian population census is a voluntary matter, and no one can force people to answer the questions from the questionnaire. But we must understand: the

Japan is to allocate Russia an extra 4 billion yen ($40 million) to dismantle decommissioned Russian nuclear submarines in the Far East, Japanese media reported on Tuesday.

Construction of ESPO branch started in the border city Mohe.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed into effect a law on organizing a planned 2012 summit of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) a forum of Pacific Rim countries.

Russian hydrogenerating company RusHydro is planning to sign a memorandum on cooperation with Japan's Mitsui and J-Power on May 11-12 as part of a project to build wind plants on Russky Island off Vladivostok, acting RusHydro CEO VasilyZubakin said.

From 2011 the manufacture and sale of the traditional incandescent lamps may be prohibited.

Russia announced that it will have disposed of two nuclear submarines by the middle of 2010.

Israel and Russia will be collaborating on the cutting-edge science of nanotechnology, which is the science of controlling matter at molecular or even atomic levels.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is certain that the main aim of the preparation for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum’s summit that will be held in Vladivostok in 2012 is the development of the Russian Far East. "The aim is

This is 10 percent more than last year's level.

Oleg Kozyrev comments on the importance of the upcoming Moscow City Duma elections, set to take place in October. Exclusive translation by theotherrussia.org.