A Pacific Future Fishery-2008 exhibition and fair opened here on Wednesday as the first event of an International Congress of Fishermen.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev decreed OAO USK MOST as the only contractor to erect the bridge to the Russky Island in Vladivostok.

The citizens will see a dance performance “Fuji-musume”.

Over 70 million roubles were allocated for these aims from the regional budget.

The main tasks of the Far East sub-holding will become the guarantee of the Pacific Fleet fighting order.

More than 350 people from 16 foreign countries registered themselves for the participation in the fishery forum.

The new modern electric train that is able to overcome the distance from Vladivostok to Ussuriisk in an hour has arrived to the Vladivostok department of the Far Eastern railways.

Russia's Pacific Fleet, Naval Aviation and coastal defense troops have launched a joint exercise off the Far East's Kamchatka Peninsula, a spokesman for the fleet said on Tuesday.

Such decision was made at the session of the food policy and nature management committee of the Legislative Assembly during the discussion of the law project “On the strategy of the socio-economy development of Primorye till 2025”.

About 3 million dollars are planned to be allocated from the federal budget on the development of the program.

The international issues in the field of counteraction to the drug business will be discussed in the region at the beginning of September.

The World Wildlife Fund said on Monday that over 800 walruses found dead 10 days ago by border officials in Russia's Far Eastern region of Chukotka probably died of natural causes

Construction materials, medicines, clothes and food were gathered by enterprises, organizations and private persons of the region.

The U.S. and Britain have officially pulled out of a Russia-NATO naval exercise in the Sea of Japan slated for August 15-23, a spokesman for the Russian Pacific Fleet said on Friday.

More than 450 residents of Primorye received appointment cards on the complex operations since the beginning of the year.

The representatives of the industry consider the necessity to lower the agricultural tax.

The Russian sailing ship Pallada was greeted by hundreds of residents of Vladivostok on Monday as it arrived in Russia's largest port on the Pacific after completing a journey around the world.

The governor of Primorye Territory Sergei Darkin has signed the resolution on the creation of the council.

The governor of the region Sergey Darkin held a meeting on energy problems.

ExxonMobil's Sakhalin-1 project will be inspected for adherence to operational and environmental regulations, the country's industrial safety watchdog said Wednesday.

The event is held in Russia for the first time.

The possibility of the air-rescue unit is being considered in Primorye.

The first bio-technological park of Primorye will appear in the Lazovsky area on the shore of the Kievka Bay.

All local elements of transport segment will be merged.

Russian state nuclear power corporation Rosatom plans to work with aluminum giant UC RusAl to build a 4GW nuclear plant and an aluminum factory in the Far East, a Rosatom subsidiary said on Saturday.

Governor of Russia’s Far-Eastern Primorye territory Sergei Darkin has done a public presentation of a strategy of the territory’s social and economic development through to 2025.

Russian, U.S., U.K., and French warships will take part in a major Russia-NATO interoperability exercise off the Russian coast in the Sea of Japan on August 15-23, a Russian Navy spokesman said on Wednesday.

The large-scale event will be held during the festival "Pacific Meridian"

This would reduce the size of areas being cut down.

A gold factory with a design capacity of around 10 metric tons of gold was launched in the Russian Far East on Saturday, a local natural resources ministry official said.

This will be the main topic at the upcoming International Fishermen Congress.

146,4 thousand square meters of housing were put into operation in the region for the last 6 months.

The Governor is on the official journey related to the socio-economic development of the region.

The first group of children from the Sichuan province of China arrived yesterday to the airport of Vladivostok.

Most of the fishery objects are sold outsides the border of Russian Federation.

The applications on participation in the “Leaders of Tourist industry of Primorye 2008” contest are being accepted.

Kamchatka – Russia’s fishing peninsula – celebrates the Fisher’s Day on Sunday.

The international symposium on the physics and technology of nanostructures opened in Vladivostok on Monday. Its participants will deliver over 150 reports and 35 scientists of the Far East department of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN) will speak about their novelties. Researchers from Japan, the United States and China will also make reports on their achievements in the sphere of nanotechnologies.

Russia's Vladivostok Air began U.S. service yesterday with scheduled weekly charter service between Anchorage and Kamchatka on Russia's East Coast. The direct connection between Alaska and the Russian Far East are being welcomed by corporate travelers in Alaska.

The Third International Environmental Forum "Nature without Borders" will focus on effective environmental management.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao discussed their upcoming meetings at the next forums of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation organisation (APEC).

The price on Russian gas will reach $ 500 per 1000 cubic meters for Europe by the end of 2008 said the Chairman of Gazprom Alexei Miller.

One of the themes of the upcoming forum is the energy potential of the Russian Far East

Five hundred children from China's quake-hit province of Sichuan will tour Russia's Primorsky territory for rehabilitation, the regional press service said Saturday.

The issues of cultural and economic cooperation and the possibility of participation of Japanese companies in the construction of the APEC summit objects were discussed during the meeting. "Japan has a long experience in the conduction of major events of international level - noted Mr. Wada - and cities in which such activities are held get a great impetus for further development."

The development of infrastructure, logistics, innovation and investment issues of the fishing industry will be discussed at the round tables of the Congress.

Russia was represented by the Rector of FESU Vladimir Kurilov.

The optimal traffic conditions will be created in the city.

Gazprom believes that it will start production at the Kirinsky block in 2014, and that the Sakhalin-3 project will be yielding 28.4bn cubic meters of gas by 2020, said Vasily Podyuk today, a member of the gas giant's Management Committee.

Appreciable financials incetives will receive 1100 honours students by the outcome of summer exams.