The Russian president pledges to open up exports of liquefied natural gas to meet Far East demand.
'Early stage' talks on a deal between Gazprom and BP to build an extension to the Nord Stream gas pipe enabling major Russian supplies to reach the UK.
The first evidence that sailors may have survived revealed with pictures of life jackets from the vessel found on a nearby island.
Relatives of the sailors lost almost six weeks ago on a gold-ore carrying freighter are begging the authorities to keep hunting for the crew.
A renaissance of one of Siberia's first outposts as the Far North becomes the new economic frontier.
Memorandum signed on Bazhenov field between Russia's second largest oil producer and the French giant.
Warning of methane blasts in Kara Sea adjacent to Yamal craters caused by gas eruptions associated with melting permafrost due to global warming.