Huge area of the Sea of Okhotsk will be recognised as part of Russia's continental shelf.

Plans to develop Russky Island as 'a model advanced development area'.

Session seen as a significant step towards improving economic prospects for vast priority region including eastern Siberia.

An expedition is underway to locate and analyse deposits of methane in  'underwater permafrost' in the seas of Okhotsk and Japan.

Drifts have reached one metre in height with schools closed, cars abandoned and even a military tank pulling out stranded drivers.

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

Our map shows the attacks by bears on humans across a swathe of Siberia and the Russian Far East.

A 1,159 metre volcano named after one of Russia's most fearsome tsars erupted early Thursday for the first time in 23 years.