The only Russian victim was from Irkutsk, say reports.

Place your bets as Russia takes on Macau and Las Vegas to woo Pacific gamblers.

Wide-body aircraft being used for passengers flying into Sabetta International as region gears up to become a gas powerhouse.

Ecology groups warn that the extent of fires in forests and taiga has been misreported by up to 159 times compared with satellite evidence of the grim facts.

Russia has been made officially larger following the chance discovery of a previously unknown island off the northern coast of Siberia.

Hi-tech technologies have been used to track smoke plumes from forest fires burning across eastern Russia as they cross the Pacific.

Stranded on Teletskoye Lake in the Altai Mountains, bird's only hope of survival is to be caught and put in a zoo.

New four times a week link between Beijing and Vladivostok.