Russia's policy of encouraging convicts to bolster its invasion of Ukraine was simple — survive six months and get your ...

Sakhalin Island, half Russian and halfJapanese, is poised like a blockbuster at the head of the Japanesearchipelago. Last week the bleak, sparsely peopled island ...

Russian state-owned oil and gas major Gazprom has acquired a 27.5% stake in Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) producer ...

Kan, known in Russia as the "Crab King," was an influential businessman who accumulated significant wealth by exporting seafood from Russia's Sakhalin island. He fled Russia in 2018 after a probe ...

Not denied, but officially confirmed by the Japanese War Office, was asubsequent skirmish on half-Russian, half-Japanese Sakhalin Island.Soviet frontier guards were said to have crossed the border ...

MOSCOW: Russia's emergencies ministry says that parts of the western coast Sakhalin island, situated close to Japan on Russia's Pacific seaboard, were under threat of tsunami, and that the local ...

The US sanctions have nearly halted the extraction and export of Russian liquefied natural gas. Russia is preparing for a ...

Iuvachëv was exiled with other political prisoners to the notorious Sakhalin penal colony. The penal colony emerged during the late 1860s and 1870s, and collapsed in 1905, under the weight of Japan’s ...

WASHINGTON--The Sakhalin-2, an oil and gas extraction project two Japanese trading companies have a stake in, will not be affected by new global sanctions soon to be imposed on Russian petroleum ...

The only region of Russia, which is entirely located on islands. There are 87 of them in total, including the largest - Sakhalin. And every island is very different. On one island, lazy seals love ...

"After a four-year break, flights under the charter program of tour operator Pegas Touristik together with the Ikar airline to the Kingdom of Thailand are resuming starting April 26, 2024. Flights EO ...