Russian Far East

As a teenager, Pavel Kushnir won a coveted spot in Russia's most prestigious training program for pianists at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. His classmates remember him as a shy, quirky introvert with fluency in not just classical music, but in film, literature and painting.

Radiation was detected about 2.5 kilometres from residential buildings in the city of Khabarovsk, without residents having been exposed

The number one Belarusian plane landed at the airport in Blagoveshchensk. Head of the Belarusian state was welcomed by the leadership of the Amur region and Blagoveshchensk, as well as members of the Belarusian delegation who arrived the day before, the statement said.

The Antonov An-12 aircraft was flying from Yakutsk, the capital of the Sakha region in eastern Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin is currently on a retreat in a Siberian region with Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and will return to Moscow late on Wednesday, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

A Russian An-26 plane en route from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana has gone missing in Kamchatka, prompting an emergency alert.
It is presumed that the plane crashed into the sea, said the representative of the emergency service for the agency, RIA Novosti agency reported.
According to various data, there were 28 or 29 passengers on board.

According to preliminary data, there are 22 passengers on the plane, including one child, and six crew members. Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations (MChS) says it is investigating details to find out what happened to the plane that disappeared over Kamchatka.
According to a TASS source, the plane was technically correct, and the pilot did not report a malfunction.

Contact has been lost with a passenger plane carrying more than two dozen people in Russia's Far Eastern peninsula of Kamchatka, local officials said on July 6.

Staff at the zoo in the Polish town of Plock first noticed the sound, not the sight, of two Siberian tiger cubs born in late April, keeper Malgorzata Trzcinska said, introducing the first of the breed born in the country this year.

Three Russian regions in the Far East have closed their borders with China until Feb. 7 amid fears over the outbreak of coronavirus there, the TASS news agency cited the governor of Khabarovsk region as saying on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

The border closures affect crossings in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Khabarovsk and Amur regions, Reuters reported.