A large-scale exercise of rescuers has begun in the Russian Primorsky territory.

A fire that broke out at a shipyard in Nakhodka was localized; the fire spread threat was eliminated.

Vladivostok has celebrated the Tiger Day for the tenth year running to raise awareness of conservation of the Ussuri Taiga and its animal species Amur tiger and Far-Eastern leopard.

Earlier the authorities had feared that this object of the APEC-2012 summit could be reduced

Despite the crisis, investments in the regional economy grow

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended opening ceremonies Friday for construction of the first leg of a new natural gas pipeline in Russia's Far East.

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

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

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.

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

Taiwan plans to shut its representative offices in five countries which "do not function well," and will open two new representative offices, one in Japan and another one in Turkey, an official said Saturday. The countries where Taiwan will close

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

During the phone talk Medvedev and Aso came to agreement that it is necessary to seriously respond to the actions of North Korea that make a challenge to the system of international security.

First deputy chief of the Russian presidential administration Vladislav Surkov introduced new presidential plenipotentiary representative in the Far Eastern Federal District Viktor Ishayev to the governors of Russia’s Far East. "The Far East Federal District has the biggest territory among

Construction of ESPO branch started in the border city Mohe.

Russia and Japan agreed on Tuesday to expand their cooperation in the nuclear industry as part of a visit to Tokyo by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who presided over a deal that will open the way for contracts worth billions

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.

Russia on Thursday warned Japan not to expect a decades-old territorial row to be resolved ahead of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to Tokyo early next week.

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.

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.