Russia's Agriculture Ministry will soon start selling grain from its intervention fund to the regions which have suffered most from the ongoing drought.

The Primorye regional administration is in talks with developers over the construction of an expansive infrastructure for one of Russia's gambling zones near the Far East city of Vladivostok.

The Central District Court of Russia's Far East city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur has ordered a local Internet provider to block access to five websites, including Youtube.

Japan goes on with illegal fishing king crab. “If the destruction continues, crabs may disappear in a year or two,” said Konstantin Zgurovsky, head of the marine program at the World Wildlife Fund.

Russian and American drug police working together cracked a cocaine trafficking ring. It involved figures of high position, including a showman and a corrupt police officer.

The Thai visa of Russian musician Mikhail Pletnev, who was recently accused of child sex abuse in Thailand, is still valid.

The scandal around the arrest and deportation of Russians spying in the United States will not affect Russian-U.S. relations, the U.S. ambassador to Russia said on Monday.

Mr. Sagbo last month became the first black to be elected to office in Russia.

Igor Sutyagin was sentenced in 2004 in Russia to 15 years in prison for passing information to the US intelligence agency CIA. Now he plans to return to his home country.

A new ethical and professional conduct code for workers in the Russian state service was approved on Thursday and could come into force in the fall.