The second largest city of the Russian Far East faces nervous hours and days to see if its dikes hold back the deluge.

Japanese companies consider investment in railway extension via islands of Sakhalin and Hokkaido.

Officially, Alexander I died of typhus aged 47 on 1 December 1825, but evidence suggests he faked his demise and lived as a holy man.

The billionaire owner of Chelsea Football Club has held political office in the autonomous region for 14 years.

Bears and lion move into their new home in Ussuriysk in Russian Far East.

How horseracing and equestrian culture is developing in the Sakha Republic.

He confessed that he and a friend cannibalised another member of their group who died in the extreme cold, say investigators.

Infant lost its mother but 43,500 years later gives remarkable evidence that cavemen in prehistoric Europe were RIGHT to draw the species with spots.