Major rescue operation on the island of Sakhalin went on for two days.

Relatives of the sailors lost almost six weeks ago on a gold-ore carrying freighter are begging the authorities to keep hunting for the crew.

At least 76 were injured in the serious rail incident on a train from Novosibirsk to Adler.

The first evidence that sailors may have survived revealed with pictures of life jackets from the vessel found on a nearby island.

The Okhotsk Sea quake registered 8.3 on the Richter Scale at a depth of 600km, and prompted a tsunami warning. 

Toxic fuel from 21,000 ton leak reaches pristine lake, bypassing floating booms, as rivers of diesel pollution cover-up is exposed.

The swollen Amur River reached a depth of 910 cm near Komsomolsk-on-Amur on Sunday, with fears it could hit 940cm.