Alrosa to announce timetable within two weeks, with exchange likely open by 2016.

Russia is offering the best tax incentives in the world to create its own Vegas near Vladivostok. 

No economy class tickets to and from Moscow available 'for three weeks': travel by train takes a week.

Ambitious plans unveiled for 250km/h train that would cut travel times and drive new business and tourism between two countries.

Otto Lagerfeld held in bleak camp in Verkhoyansk for four years of First World War, show contemporary documents.

Video shows hero climbers manually breaking ice off its cable stays at height of 324m (1,063ft) in Vladivostok.

Most powerful typhoon ever recorded in Primorsky region, causing serious flooding.

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

Aurora with its key hub in Vladivostok promises to make the country's Far East more accessible.