Focus placed on the Far East of Russia, with duty-free zone, tax incentives, and lower costs for ships.
The second largest city of the Russian Far East faces nervous hours and days to see if its dikes hold back the deluge.
Trans Siberian trains are on schedule despite rivers breaking their banks and plans to evacuate the gateway of Khabarovsk.
Rescue effort underway to provide emergency feeding sites for the helpless animals, with the wild boar population also in trouble.
Warnings of worse rain for the rest of the week came on Wednesday as evacuation of 30 settlements was planned by the authorities.
The navigator, who served in the Navy of Peter the Great, gave his name to the Bering Strait, the Bering Sea, Bering Island, Bering Glacier and Bering Bridge.
Vessel 'holed by drifting ice', says regional Emergency Ministry source.