An expert on kimono from Japan Uguti FUMIA is invited for holding master-classes.VLADIVOSTOK, October 28, vladivostoktimes.com Master-classes "Kimono show in Vladivostok" are held in Vladivostok from October 27 to 31. The press-center of the museum named after V.K. ARSENYEV reported

MOSCOW, October 28 (RIA Novosti) - The board of directors of Russian flagship air carrier Aeroflot has elected Transportation Minister Igor Levitin as its chairman, Aeroflot said on Tuesday. The board was previously headed by former presidential aide Viktor Ivanov,

UNTIED NATIONS, October 28 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine is using the issue of the 1932-33 famine to divert the nation's attention from the ongoing political and economic crisis, Russia's envoy to the UN said on Tuesday. Ukraine has been seeking

MOSCOW, October 28 (RIA Novosti) - A jury took more than five hours to find former banker Alexei Frenkel guilty on Tuesday of organizing the murder of the first deputy head of Russia's Central Bank, a spokeswoman for the Moscow

MOSCOW, October 28 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and the European Union have agreed to continue unofficial talks on a pan-European security treaty, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday. "We have been at the stage of unofficial communications, detailing

MOSCOW, October 28 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday he expected to meet with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao at a summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation organization in Peru on November 22-23. Medvedev met

The Amur shipyard in Russia's Far East said on Monday it had started sea trials of a newly built nuclear-powered attack submarine, which according to media reports may be leased to India.

A Russian heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser will visit a French naval base for the first time in November, an aide to the Navy commander said on Monday.

The new Vice Admiral Zakharin minesweeper will join Russia's Black Sea Fleet in November, the Navy headquarters said on Monday.

A missile frigate from Russia's Baltic Fleet has started patrolling waters in the Gulf of Aden to protect Russian ships and crews from pirate attacks, a Navy spokesman said on Tuesday.

conversations of ex-president Leonid Kuchma for faster examination of their authenticity, daily Ukrayinska pravda reports.

The strongest over the last 30 years earthquake in China took place in Sychuan in May 2008.VLADIVOSTOK, October 27, vladivostoktimes.com. According to RIA Novosti, More than thousand of children, which suffered the earthquaqe in Sychuan province, will have rest in

The yearly freight turnover of the port increased by 36 %.Vladivostok, October 28, vladivostoktimes.com According to the latest information given by production department, on October 25, 2008, Vladivostok Marine Trade Port fulfilled its yearly freight turnover plan, the VMTP press-release

The resource potential of future deliveries to the Land of the Rising Sun is being developed.VLADIVOSTOK, October 28, vladivostoktimes.com JOGMEC, the Japanese Governmental Corporation, is establishing the third geological prospecting partnership with the Yakut Company "Sakhtransneftegas" to develop the resource

The specialists point the decrease of the unemployment level in Primorye.