Rising numbers of catwalk models and cover stars come from ‘world’s emerging beauty capital’.
Salmon dishes were a firm favourite on the lower Amur River, while meat was on menu upstream.
Rare historic pictures show Russia's last tsar as the first builder of the Trans-Siberian Railway 125 years ago this month.
Our map shows the attacks by bears on humans across a swathe of Siberia and the Russian Far East.
The mayor of Vladivostok is fed up with Moscow being asleep when he needs key decisions to be made.
Real-life adventurers to a 'professional blonde' queue to participate in the ultimate brutal television reality contest, where 'rape and murder' are not banned.
When this failed, Vitaly Saidov grabbed his gun and shot dead the predator to save himself and his family.
Ukraine has moved its Consulate General from Vladivostok to Novosibirsk. The former Soviet state has other Consultates General around Russia already.
Endangered Amur tigers are protected under President Vladimir Putin's special project.