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A Russian man was responsible for an attack by a female bear that hospitalized him, since he had tried to approach her cubs, officials in the Far Eastern Sakhalin province said Tuesday.
The victim, a resident of the Pacific island Kunashir, encountered the bear and her offspring on Sunday, a few kilometres away from […]

Led by Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, a group of the Company’s experts started a business trip to the Far East.
Today the Company’s experts visited construction sites of the Sakhalin main compressor station (MCS) and the Sakhalin section of the Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas transmission system (GTS).

Victor ISHAEV, the RF President Plenipotentiary in the Far Eastern Federal District, made a suggestion that the bridge linking together the Sakhalin Island and the Mainland should be built; the building should be started after the 2012 APEC Summit projects are completed in Vladivostok; RIA PrimaMedia informs referring to the report of the Plenipotentiary Administration […]

Four poaching ships sailing under the flag of Cambodia have been detained near Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East by border guards over the past few days.
According to the FSB of the Russian Federation agents discovered more than 40 tons of illegally caught live crabs in the holds of the ships.

A Russian delegation has come to study Jeju Island. Sakhalin Island, a “sister city” to Jeju, is located off the eastern coast of Russia in the northern Pacific Ocean and the site of a territorial dispute between Russia and Japan for much of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Four women leaders of Sakhalin – Vice-Chairman Irina […]

"The Round Table: Public Role in Developing of the Key Social and Economic Projects "The Bridge to Sakhalin" was held in the Sakhalin Area Administration in the framework of the Civil Forum.
The representatives of public organizations, officials and scientists took part in the event. Sergey KARPENKO, the Acting Chairman of the Area Committee on Economy, […]