Strong earthquake in Russia's Far East echoes in Moscow

Source: Supplied TREMORS were felt as far away as Moscow when a deep sea earthquake measuring 8.2 struck the coast off Sakhalin Island. The USGS placed the epicentre of the quake in the Sea of Okhotsk of the Kamchatka Peninsula at a depth of more ...

A strong earthquake off the coast of Sakhalin in the Far East sent shockwaves throughout Russia on Friday morning, causing buildings to lightly shake in Moscow, about 7,000 kilometers away, Interfax reported. There were no immediate reports of ...

ExxonMobil remains pleased by its relations with Rosneft, in work on projects in the Arctic, the Black Sea and Sakhalin, ExxonMobil President Neil Duffin said during a video link with President Vladimir Putin on Thursday. In South Sakhalin, the ...

VLADIVOSTOK, April 23 (RAPSI) Customs officials on the Russian far east island of Sakhalin have confiscated several glossy booklets from a Japanese tourist containing maps showing the disputed Kuril Islands as Japanese territory, the Far Eastern ...

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, March 28 (RIA Novosti) Police and FSB operatives in Russias Far East arrested two Chinese nationals suspected of selling illegal eavesdropping and covert surveillance devices, the FSB office in the Sakhalin region said on ...

The cost of building an LNG plant and infrastructure in Sakhalin Island in Russia's Far East is preliminarily estimated at $15bn, ExxonMobil President Neil Duffin said during a teleconference with President Vladimir Putin today. ExxonMobil and ...

Gazprom , Russia 's state gas provider, has been told to speed up exploration activities in the far east of the Federation. Chief executive Alexey Miller told a high-level meeting that the Eastern Gas Programme, covering Siberia, needed to pick ...

ST. PETERSBURG, May 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russian energy giant Gazprom plans to offer foreign investors up to a 50 percent share in a project to build a liquefied natural (LNG) plant near Vladivostok in Russias Far East, Gazprom Deputy CEO Vitaly ...

Rosneft and ExxonMobil will have to invest some $15 billion to build a liquefied natural gas plant and necessary infrastructure in Russia's Far East, an Exxon official told President Vladimir Putin on Thursday. "We are talking probably about $15 ...