Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London He also covers other areas of geopolitics including China Brendan joined Newsweek in 2018 from the International Business Times and well as English You can get in touch with Brendan by emailing b.cole@newsweek.com or follow on him on his X account @brendanmarkcole either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content A light aircraft carrying a Russian major general and his wife crashed in in the country's Far East region on Tuesday Sergei Fedorov and his spouse Alena Kalagurova from Omsk were on board the two-seat Bristell light aircraft when it crashed 20 miles from the Novorossiya airfield in the Primorskiy Territory that borders the Pacific Ocean according to local media cited by the Telegram news outlet Readovka Local outlet Irkutsk News reported Fedorov's considerable experience as a pilot having worked in the aviation division of Russia's emergency situations ministry for more than 20 years A graduate of the Syzran Higher Military Aviation School he had been awarded the Soviet-era Order of the Red Star as well as other medals Irkutsk News said the emergency situations ministry had warned the couple about the threat of bad weather conditions on their route The Mash Telegram channel posted a video clip it said was of the couple buckling up before their flight with both in good spirits "Thanks for the welcome," Fedorov tells a man out of shot The Telegram channel 112 said that the couple were supposed to land at 8 a.m Air traffic controllers said the plane disappeared in thick fog on a mountain range with peaks up to 6,000 feet high It had been flying over peaks up to 3,000 feet high "but the last obstacle before reaching the airfield turned out to be insurmountable," the channel said The fog has meant that rescuers have so far been unable to reach the crash site Kalagurova frequently posted video on social media of the couple's trips by private plane In a recent clip on vKontakte she described her first solo flight I controlled the plane in the sky without an instructor," she said from the passenger seat of a car "The euphoria and having wings behind my back were an indescribable feeling." Her mother told the outlet GS55.RU that she had spoken with her daughter on the morning of the flight they always prepared carefully for flights," she told the outlet Russia's regional transport prosecutor's office has launched an investigation ET: This article has been updated with further information Newsweek is committed to challenging conventional wisdom and finding connections in the search for common ground Newsletters in your inbox See all For travel to the United States on a temporary basis For foreign citizens who want to live permanently in the United States Learn more about quality higher-education opportunities in the U.S that you will not find anywhere else in the world spent ten days in Primorskiy Kray conducting clinics for junior baseball teams and performing outreach events promoting the sport along with a healthy life style Consulate General Vladivostok worked with the Baseball Federations of Primorskiy Kray and Vladivostok as well as municipal administrations and regional youth organizations to carry out this program Nick inspired junior baseball teams in Vladivostok and Nakhodka and conducted a baseball showcase for over 300 enthusiastic boys and girls in the city of Artyom and youth summer camps in the Vladivostok suburbs Nick repeatedly stressed he considered baseball one the best sports in the world as it brings people together and promotes personal success in school By | 31 July, 2015 | Topics: News, Vladivostok | Tags: , We use cookies to make our website work better and improve your experience Bruno Tanant et Jean Christophe Nani – Landscape designers TN PLUS, Aldric Beckmann et Françoise N’Thépé – Architects Beckmann N’Thépé win the international compétition for the completion of the Primorskiy’s new zoological Park Founded in 1865 Saint-Petersburg zoo is the oldest zoological park of Russia it suffers today from a cruel lack of space being located in the heart of the historical town center The city has hence decided to create a new zoo escaping this way the high population density of the urban area The project preserves a large strech of land and implements an environmentally beneficial approach The project offers a symbolic sample of every continent in an attempt to recreate the illusion of a reunited Pangea within the very zoological park of Saint-Petersburg The archipelago therefore created will be made of islands representing South East Asia the two latter being linked with each other by the pack ice of the Arctic Pole The chosen site enjoys a profuse water supply and hence is particularly fitted for such an insular organization of the various environments Nowadays the environment requirements and the green consciousness of the public are increasingly considered a core issue The very background of a zoological park itself induces a mandatory respect of those values zoological parks are today considered major stakeholders of biodiversty preservation Even though it is an artificially recreated leisure area the Primorskiy Park is above all an educational tool allowing each and everyone of us to better grasp our own history and also a research center helping to preserve our Earth So much goals were aimed both by architects and landscape designers of this project who managed to convince and share their ambitions Activate the Wp-related-posts plugin to see the related post list XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong> Russian military exercises in the Far East this week are to take place on a far smaller scale than when they were last held in 2018 reflecting the strain on Moscow’s forces as they struggle to make headway on the battlefields of eastern Ukraine the Russian Ministry of Defense last month said that its capacity to stage such exercises was in no way affected by what Russia calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine but the 50,000 personnel that Moscow yesterday said would take part are a fraction of the official figure of 300,000 that were said to be involved four years ago — although some Western military analysts suspect that number was overstated The ministry said that 140 military aircraft and more than 5,000 items of military hardware would be deployed — way down on the 1,000 aircraft and 36,000 tanks and armored vehicles that were reported to have been sent to the 2018 maneuvers “This is going to be the smallest strategic-level exercise in years because the entire ground forces potential is engaged in operations in Ukraine So the exercise will have to be very small,” said Konrad Muzyka director of Rochan military consultancy based in Poland The exercises would be closely watched by regional powers such as Japan and South Korea as a significant show of force by Russia and China which joined up in Vostok 2018 and are to take part again in drills on land and at sea Russia said its Pacific Fleet and China’s navy would take part in “joint practical actions to defend maritime communications and areas of maritime economic activity” in the Sea of Japan Russia’s armed forces news channel Zvezda yesterday posted a video of Chinese troops unloading armored vehicles delivered to Russia by rail Muzyka said he estimated that 70 to 80 percent of units from Russia’s eastern military district had been deployed to Ukraine making it “impossible” for Moscow to free up 50,000 men for exercises He said a more plausible figure would be 10,000 to 15,000 “It’s just Russia pretending everything is fine and they still have the capability to launch a large-scale military exercise with China but in reality I think the scope of this exercise especially from a ground force perspective RussiaThe special session was devoted to Russia-Japan business dialogue during Saint Petersburg International Economic forum on June 8 this year Moderators and hosts of session were Business Russia President Russian-Japanese Business Council Chairman Alexey Repik from the Russian side and Mitsui Moscow General Director Chief Regional Representative in CIS countries Meguro Hiroshi from the Japanese side The head of Mitsui in Russia shared his views about the current cooperation between two countries and future of the Russian-Japanese relations as well as Mitsui’s contribution to the Russian-Japanese business ties strengthening СAmong other speakers and honorable guests were Economic Development Minister of Russia Maxim Oreshkin Trade and Industry of Japan Yoshihiro Seki Teruo Asada (Keidanren Japan-Russia Business Cooperation Committee Chairman) Tadashi Maeda (Japan Bank for International Cooperation Governor) Yasuhiro Tamaki (Okinawa prefecture Governor) Oleg Kozhemyako (Primorskiy region Governor) Roman Trotsenko (AEON Chairman of the Board of Directors) Evgeny Afanasiev (Advisor to Novatek Chairman of the Management Board Vladimir Primak (Russian Direct Investment Fund Investment Department Director) This screen grab obtained from a handout video released by the Russian Defence Ministry on August 29 shows Chinese armed convoy upon their arrival for Vostok 2022 military exercises at the Sergeevsky training ground at Primorskiy (Maritime) Kray of the Russian Far East The upcoming military drills Vostok 2022 (East 2022) exercise launched by Russia with countries including China and India .. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Subscribe to BuzzFeed Daily NewsletterCaret DownThat Story About A Tiger And A Goat Being Best Friends Might Be Fake Because Joy Isn't RealAmur wasn't in love - he just wasn't hungry Amur [the tiger] didn’t eat Timur [the goat] because he was full I asked employees of the park feed Amur more so that he won’t eat Timur in the future That’s basically what we did for two months We decided to call it «friendship» of tiger and goat but fact is — tiger wasn’t hungry and in captivity tigers don’t kill to make food stocks for later.Then the director of the park started to kind of make this whole «friendship» idea look like it was his idea He reacted negatively on me working in the park and I left After that Amur broke Timur’s spine and the goat has to get an operation done on him Global Ports Group has commissioned two mobile harbour cranes Liebherr LHM550 at the group’s Far Eastern terminal Vostochnaya Stevedoring Company (VSC) located in the deep-water Port of Vostochniy in Primorskiy krai The new heavy-duty equipment supplements the operation of VCS’s five STS-cranes enhancing the speed and efficiency of vessel handling and allowing for an increase of berth annual capacity by 200,000 TEU The harbour cranes were custom-built for Global Ports in Germany and delivered pre-assembled to VSC by sea.   The machines have a lifting capacity of 144 tonnes and can operate in three regimes: hook Each crane has a maximum outreach of 54 metres allowing it to handle vessels with up to 16 rows of containers.   Similar equipment is already in use at Global Ports’ Petrolesport terminal in Saint Petersburg the container throughput of VSC increased by 17.3 per cent compared to the first quarter of 2022 and amounted to 146,000 TEU Global Ports has implemented an investment programme to increase terminal capacity in the Far East VSC has already received two new SANY reachstackers and two more ‘super heavy’ loaders are expected to be delivered the Group has redistributed about 30 equipment units from North-West terminals to the Far East nine new RTG and RMG cranes by China’s leading manufacturer ZPMC will join the fleet of VSC READ: Maersk sells off Global Ports stake Global Ports began an expansion project at VSC to develop the 47-hectare site adjacent to the terminal and a new railway front are planned to be built on the area The project will increase the throughput capacity of VSC from the current 700,000 TEU to 1.7 million TEU per year by the mid-2030s Earlier in the year, CMA Terminals and Global Ports agreed to a cash free shares swap as part of CMA CGM Group’s divestment of shares in Russia More recently, Global Ports announced it is establishing its own fleet of 4,000 specialised containers that will be used for the transportation, storage, and handling of bulk cargo DP World is set to implement OneStop Modal and the OneStop Vehicle Booking System (VBS) The US House of Representatives has voted to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency‘s (EPA) 2023 global schedule reliability surged to 57.5 per cent Container throughput at the Port of Melbourne totalled 267,000 TEUs in March 2025 Cover image: ©Associated Press The death toll has risen to at least 70 The Zvezda shipyard in Russia’s Far East is to begin building vessels for Rosneft this year with its first deliveries scheduled for 2019 The yard is to build five “green” LNG-fuelled aframax tankers plus multipurpose replenishment ships with ice class The tankers will be used to export crude and oil products from Baltic ports Rosneft and the Far Eastern Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Center (FESRC) also signed contracts for two multi-purpose supply vessels with reinforced ice-class Icebreaker 7 notation which will be delivered in late 2019 and early 2020 MH Wirth AS and the companies’ joint venture Antares also signed heads of agreements for offshore drilling units The rigs will be designed by Zvezda-Keppel Design and Engineering Centre and built jointly by Keppel FELS and the Zvezda Shipbuilding complex in Russia’s Primorskiy region Rosneft and Exxon Neftegas Limited today signed a joint protocol to review the new shipyard’s technical capability and development plans which could lead to Zvezda building tankers in the future to serve the Sakhalin-1 Project in the Sea of Okhotsk Rosneft said it intends to  develop a manufacturing facility at Zvezda which could be used for the repaid and maintenance of oil tankers currently serving the Sakhalin-1 project A new dry dock will be added to the shipyard in the future equipped with a Goliath-type crane with a 900-tonne load capacity The Zvezda shipyard is being developed by a consortium comprising Rosneft Rosneftegaz and Gazprom at the Far East Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Centre Don't have an account? obtained from a handout video released by the Russian Defence Ministry on August 29 shows Chinese PLA soldiers upon their arrival for "Vostok-2022" military exercises at the Sergeevsky training ground at Primorskiy (Maritime) Kray of the Russian Far East The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has dispatched forces to join the upcoming Vostok-2022 in Russia Africa artefactoryThe zoo as sphere is seen as a metaphor for the history of humanity, the deep connection between man and his environment and the link between self and other. It makes this coexistence possible by demonstrating the idea that it is possible to produce an ideal world that can easily translate to the real world. The spheres determine the variable boundaries of our living space, whether it has the intimacy of a bubble or the cosmopolitan immensity of a globe. surfaces schemeIn this introduction to the globe through the immersion of our body in the body of nature It will consist in presenting the impossible as possible and the unthinkable as obvious We would like the zoo to be a place of experiences and then physiological – a place where you discover nature at the same time as your own nature the scene of an interaction between man and animals where reason aims at apprehending everything and refusing everything the universal of belonging and the subjectivity of the individual Artifice / Nature is the theme of an intriguing off-kilter strategy at the service of the animals and their well-being You'll now receive updates based on what you follow Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors If you have done all of this and still can't find the email Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time St Petersburg: Sydney-based Greenpeace activist Alexandra Harris has been granted bail in a St Petersburg court was one of 30 people arrested by Russian coast guards during a Greenpeace protest against Arctic oil drilling Greenpeace activist Alexandra Harris is escorted after a hearing at the Primorskiy Court in St Petersburg.Credit: Reuters Twenty of those detained on September 18 have now been granted bail this week following criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin over what was widely seen in the West as their harsh treatment All previous bail requests had been refused But of the 21 people who appeared in court hearings so far this week only Australian Colin Russell has had his detention extended Greenpeace says it is baffled by the decision to keep Mr Russell Greenpeace International Radio operator Colin Russell has been charged with piracy in Russia.Credit: Reuters was expected to be freed on bail on Thursday in St Petersburg None of those in pre-trial detention have their passports and Greenpeace said it was not clear how much their movement would be restricted All of those aboard the Arctic Sunrise icebreaker during the protest at a Russian oil rig could still face seven-year jail terms on hooliganism charges Russian courts granted eight activists bail on Wednesday including the pilot of the Greenpeace icebreaker who steered the vessel to the Gazprom-owned Prirazlomnaya oil platform where several activists tried to scale the structure Greenpeace activist Alexandra Harris looks out from the defendant's cage during a hearing at the Primorskiy Court in St Petersburg.Credit: Reuters detaining everyone on board the boat and seizing the ship Asked whether the decision to grant him bail pleased him looking tired and wearing a white and purple checkered shirt He was then led out of the courtroom in handcuffs by four policemen has been a Greenpeace activist for more than 30 years and was the skipper of the environmental advocacy group's ship Rainbow Warrior when it was blown up and sunk by the French secret service in 1985 Bail for the activists was set at 2 million roubles ($61,100) Greenpeace says the protest was meant to draw attention to the impact of offshore Arctic drilling on the environment Investigators have sought three-month extensions of detention for the activists from 18 countries but the Kremlin may believe releasing some on bail could ease criticism of Russia which hosts the Winter Olympics in February has been a Greenpeace activist for more than 30 years and was the skipper of the environmental advocacy group's ship Rainbow Warrior when it was blown up and sunk by the French secret service in 1985 Jilin has very few earthquakes and most of them are very small (below magnitude 3) Larger quakes with magnitudes above 3 might occur from time to time Based on data from the past 55 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900 there are about 5.1 quakes on average per year in or near Jilin Jilin has had at least 3 quakes above magnitude 7 since 1900 which suggests that larger earthquakes of this size occur infrequently probably on average approximately every 40 to 45 years Jilin has about 7.8 quakes of magnitude 2 or higher per year 2024 at 10.26 am local time (Asia/Shanghai GMT +8) The quake had a very shallow depth of 12 km (7 mi) and was not felt (or at least not reported so) Jilin has had 2 quakes of magnitude 7.0 or above There have been also 17 quakes below magnitude 2.0 which people don't normally feel 2002 at 1.19 am local time (Asia/Shanghai GMT +8) The quake had a great depth of 566 km (352 mi) and was not felt (or at least not reported so).