Permanent patrols commence led by the heavy nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy.

The mayor of Vladivostok is fed up with Moscow being asleep when he needs key decisions to be made.

Historic cities of Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk ideal to connect country to buoyant Asian markets.

President nominates Krasnoyarsk - a city with 'wonderful people' - to be eastern seat of power.

Breathtaking scenery is revealed on a Kremlin away-day to one of Russia's most spectacular (but little known) regions.

Dmitry Medvedev promises economic and military development of territory disputed since the end of World War Two.

100,000 troops and 5,000 weapons involved in the exercises in the Eastern Military District.

Your guide is the Chairman of the Tuva Republic's government, Sholban Kara-Ool.

Revealing pictures of Siberian ruins as new royal theory may explain this remote 8th century summer schloss.

Troops and government ministries checked 'for fulfilling tasks under wartime conditions'.