More than 20,000 residents were moved as rivers burst their banks with forecasts of worsening flooding later this week.
The mayor of Vladivostok is fed up with Moscow being asleep when he needs key decisions to be made.
New tourism offices planned across China as government eyes up five-fold increase in visitors crossing the border.
Yana Dobrovolskaya ate carrots and cottage cheese, then stretched herself on horizontal bars, to gain the height needed to enter pageant.
Dmitry Medvedev promises economic and military development of territory disputed since the end of World War Two.
More than five dozen suffer acute intestinal problems from the event at Tyoshchin Yazyk tourist resort in Russia's Sakha Republic.
Stories in the pro-government Chinese media are deleted after mysterious claim of territory giveaway.
After months of speculation, parliament and President rubber-stamp deal that will see gas sent to China.
269 workers at Olimpiada gold mine in Krasnoyarsk region test virus positive.