- 19:20 10/09/2012
A light show with fireworks and music was held in honor of APEC Leaders’ Week in Vladivostok. Watch this RIA Novosti video to see the crowds enjoying the performance in the skies over the Golden Horn.
- 13:09 09/09/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, September 9 (RIA Novosti)
The quotas on catches of fish and other seafood that Russia provides to a foreign company should be tied to the amount of seafood processing capacity it builds in Russia, President Vladimir Putin said at the concluding press conference of the APEC summit in Vladivostok on Sunday.
- 11:18 09/09/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, September 9 (RIA Novosti)
Delivering another of his famous quips, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday compared the country's political opposition to omega animals, but said they are still “part of our species.”
- 10:54 09/09/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, September 9 (RIA Novosti)
Russia wants to become a new global transit route connecting Europe and the countries of the Far East, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday.
- 10:45 09/09/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, September 9 (RIA Novosti)
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum will list trade liberalization, food security and innovative growth among its priorities following the group's summit in Vladivostok, the bloc's leaders said in a declaration on Sunday.
- 10:40 09/09/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, September 9 (RIA Novosti)
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will pay an official visit to Russia to resolve the remaining tensions between Moscow and Tokyo, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday.
- 10:29 09/09/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, September 9 (RIA Novosti)
The European Union is trying to shift some of the financial burden of subsidizing the Eastern European countries to Gazprom by cracking down on the gas company, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday.
- 09:32 09/09/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, September 9 (RIA Novosti)
The 2012 APEC summit in Vladivostok has achieved all the goals set for it and the business community has received the necessary signal, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday.
- 04:42 09/09/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, September 9 (RIA Novosti)
Doing away with one of the most widely publicized traditions of APEC meetings, national leaders at the summit in Vladivostok opted to skip national costumes for the official photo, the spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
- 19:51 08/09/2012
Russian President Vladimir Putin opened the official part of the APEC summit on September 8. He with other APEC leaders met with members of the APEC Business Advisory Council.
- 12:49 08/09/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, September 8 (RIA Novosti)
Russia and Japan signed a string of bilateral agreements on Saturday, including a ban on crab poaching in the Sea of Okhotsk and a deal to construct a timber processing factory in Siberia.
- 09:16 08/09/2012 RUSSKY ISLAND (Vladivostok), September 8 (RIA Novosti)
Two hundred Peruvian servicemen will study in Russia’s universities, according to an agreement between the two countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday.
- 08:56 08/09/2012 RUSSKY ISLAND (Vladivostok), September 8 (RIA Novosti)
Russia insists that a conference on the Middle East be convened by the end of 2012, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday.
- 08:15 08/09/2012 RUSSKY ISLAND (Vladivostok), September 8 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper met on Saturday on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in the Russian Far East to discuss bilateral relations and cooperation in Arctic exploration.
- 06:50 08/09/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, September 8 (RIA Novosti)
Businesses of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) bloc should have more influence on decision making, pushing governments to do away with protectionism
- 06:33 08/09/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, September 8 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton met on Saturday on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in the Russian Far East
- 05:40 08/09/2012 RUSSKY ISLAND (Vladivostok), September 8 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that Seoul is Moscow’s third largest trade and economic partner in the Asia Pacific Region
- 04:32 08/09/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, September 8 (RIA Novosti)
China will implement a broad range of measures to make its economy more domestic-focused, ensuring its continuing growth, Chinese President Hu Jintao said on Saturday
- 03:26 08/09/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, September 8 (RIA Novosti)
China expects transportation infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation bloc to grow 10 percent by 2015, Chinese President Hu Jintao said on Saturday
- 01:59 08/09/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, September 8 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Vladimir Putin will on Saturday hold bilateral meetings with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in the Russian city of Vladivostok
- 21:15 07/09/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, September 7 (Alexey Eremenko, RIA Novosti)
Shuttle buses that drive participants of the APEC summit in Vladivostok speed along brand new thoroughfares and two majestic cable-stayed bridges.
- 16:18 07/09/2012
Take a tour of Vladivostok with RIA Novosti to see its daily life during the APEC summit.
- 14:48 07/09/2012 RUSSKY ISLAND (Vladivostok), September 7 (RIA Novosti)
Russia might slightly increase its foreign debt but the government is committed to keeping it at its current low level, President Vladimir Putin said at the APEC summit in Vladivostok on Friday.
- 13:58 07/09/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, September 7 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will aim for a place among the world’s top 20 countries on investment attractiveness, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
- 13:20 07/09/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, September 7 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will actively promote collaboration between its economic union with Kazakhstan and Belarus and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) bloc, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
- 12:50 07/09/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, September 7 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will double its grain exports to 40 million tons a year by 2020, President Vladimir Putin said at the APEC summit in Vladivostok on Friday.
- 11:23 07/09/2012
The “Russia” multimedia exhibition has opened as a part of the cultural program of the APEC Leaders’ Week in Vladivostok. See the most interesting exhibits in this RIA Novosti video.
- 07:42 07/09/2012 WASHINGTON, September 7 (RIA Novosti)
The U.S. State Department has called on journalists not to seek hidden political motives behind President Barack Obama’s absence from the current Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Russia, as well as behind the possibility that Putin’s meeting with State Secretary Hillary Clinton may be too brief.
- 05:14 07/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 7 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold about 15 bilateral meetings with APEC heads of state and government, including the presidents of China and South Korea, the U.S. state secretary, and the premiers of Japan and Canada, on the sidelines of the APEC summit, Putin’s aide Yury Ushakov told journalists.
- 18:39 06/09/2012
The unique XXI My Pacific Ocean photo and music show was held in Vladivostok to coincide with the APEC-2012 Leaders’ Week. Watch this RIA Novosti video to see what the audience marveled at.
- 17:42 06/09/2012
Rainy weather, a pass control system to access Russky Island, and sold-out hotel rooms: this is how the first days of APEC Leaders’ Week in Vladivostok looked.
- 17:17 06/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 6 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Vladimir Putin will have a brief meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Vladivostok, his aide said on Thursday.
- 16:49 06/09/2012
More than 5,000 people arrived at Vladivostok’s Sportivnaya Embankment to see XXI MY PACIFIC OCEAN unique musical photo performance – a joint project of the city administration and RIA Novosti, coinciding with the APEC summit.
- 03:35 06/09/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, September 6 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok to take part in the 2012 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on September 7-9.
- 20:50 05/09/2012 Weekly column by Konstantin von Eggert
The Kremlin looks at the upcoming APEC summit in Vladivostok, hosted by President Vladimir Putin, as a chance to showcase Russia’s new engagement in and with the Asia-Pacific region. Moscow hopes that it will be able to attract investment to the chronically underdeveloped Russian Far East and Siberia, which are quickly depopulating.
- 20:37 05/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 5 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Vladimir Putin will start his participation in the APEC summit by delivering a speech at the business summit on Friday, his aide Yury Ushakov said on Wednesday.
- 20:02 05/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 5 (RIA Novosti)
President Vladimir Putin has stressed the importance of the Asia-Pacific region for Russia’s development ahead of an APEC summit to take place in the country’s Far East port of Vladivostok.
- 10:23 05/09/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, September 5 (RIA Novosti)
The economic and social development of Siberia and Russia’s Far East are the main tasks of the Russian government, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday after the first meeting of foreign and trade ministers of the member states of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation organization.
- 02:00 05/09/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, September 5 (RIA Novosti)
Foreign and trade ministers of the member states of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation organization began on Wednesday a two-day session during the 2012 APEC summit
- 20:53 04/09/2012
Vladivostok has a population of 620,000. It is the historical administrative center of the Primorye Territory and is an important passenger and freight seaport. It is also the venue for APEC-2012, which concludes after the meeting of the heads of states and governments of the Asia-Pacific region on September 8-9.
- 19:47 03/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 3 (RIA Novosti)
RIA Novosti is going to present several original multimedia projects at the APEC-2012 Leaders’ Week in Vladivostok.
- 16:04 03/09/2012
The 24th summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) opened in Vladivostok (Russia’s Far East) on September 2. This is the first time Russia, an APEC member since 1998, is hosting the summit of the group created in 1989 to promote economic cooperation among the countries and regions – of the Pacific Rim
- 13:43 03/09/2012
The 24th annual APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Leaders’ Week will take place in Vladivostok on September 2–9. This is the first APEC forum to be held in Russia. Photo: Far Eastern Federal University on Russky Island, the venue of the APEC Leaders’ Week.
- 11:29 03/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 3 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov sought to engage Russia’s international partners on Monday by continuing a dialogue on a range of thorny issues.
- 07:01 02/09/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, September 2 (RIA Novosti)
A concluding senior officials’ meeting opened on Sunday the 2012 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit Russia’s Far East
- 00:15 02/09/2012 MOSCOW, September 2 (Alexey Eremenko, RIA Novosti)
Russia is hoping that the APEC summit it is hosting on September 2-9 will boost its economic involvement in the Asian-Pacific region, but experts said an economic overhaul of the country’s far eastern regions is in order to pull off the plan.
- 11:32 30/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 30 (RIA Novosti)
Japanese media reports claiming that Pyongyang asked Moscow to invite a North Korean delegation to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit (APEC-2012) in Russia’s Vladivostok are false, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
- 15:35 28/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 28 (RIA Novosti)
Russia will diversify its currently-Eurocentric foreign trade to ensure 50 percent of it comes from countries of the Asian-Pacific region, Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on Tuesday.
- 19:45 24/08/2012 MOSCOW, August 24 (RIA Novosti)
Warships, warplanes as well as S-400 missile defense systems will be deployed to protect the leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum during a summit in Russia's Far East next month, an official said on Friday.
- 16:56 05/07/2012 MOSCOW, July 5 (RIA Novosti)
A newly-built bridge opened by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok ahead of September’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, will be closed for “waterproofing and asphalt laying,” Pacific Bridge Construction Company (TMK) said on Thursday.
- 05:33 05/07/2012 PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, July 5 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok is ready to host the 2012 APEC summit.
- 17:17 02/07/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, July 2 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev praised on Monday the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok, which will host the APEC summit in September, saying it looked like San Francisco, but with “better” people.
- 05:19 02/07/2012 VLADIVOSTOK, July 2 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has arrived in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok to inspect facilities whose construction is underway as Russia is preparing to host an APEC summit in September, the Kremlin reported.
- 17:25 18/06/2012 GORKI, June 18 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday demanded punishment for the people responsible for last week's collapse of a newly built road in Vladivostok.
- 23:58 14/05/2012 WASHINGTON, May 14 (RIA Novosti)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will lead the U.S. delegation at an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, at the end of June, a senior official in Russia’s APEC delegation said.
- 23:05 14/05/2012 WASHINGTON, May 14 (RIA Novosti)
U.S. President Barack Obama will not be attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit (APEC-2012) in Russia’s Vladivostok, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said on Monday.
- 16:09 16/04/2012
On Saturday, workers installed the last section of a bridge spanning Zolotoi Rog (Golden Horn) Harbor in Vladivostok. The bridge is to open in the run-up to the 2012 APEC Leaders’ Meeting. It took about six hours to install the last bridge section in windless weather.
- 17:20 13/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 13 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday he will soon visit Vladivostok and test a bridge built especially for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
- 06:42 13/12/2011 VLADIVOSTOK, December 13 (RIA Novosti)
Construction terms for a bridge in Vladivostok, which caught fire on Monday afternoon, will remain unchanged
- 07:40 13/11/2011 HONOLULU, November 13 (RIA Novosti)
Russia intends to preserve the succession of work of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in 2012, after the country assumes the rotating chair in the organization
- 07:38 11/11/2011 HONOLULU, November 11 (RIA Novosti)
The United States believes proposals Russia put forward for discussion by the finance ministers of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in 2012 as next year’s APEC chair are reasonable, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner said.
- 16:59 01/07/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok to inspect construction sites of the 2012 APEC summit facilities. Construction workers assured the president that the projects will be completed on time.
- 03:55 30/06/2011 MOSCOW, June 30 (RIA Novosti)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will on Thursday hold a meeting to discuss preparation for an APEC summit in the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok, presidential spokeswoman Natalya Timakova said.
- 07:50 15/04/2011
Modernization will become the key theme of Russia's 2012 presidency of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday.
- 15:28 04/01/2011 RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev
Russia will host the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Vladivostok in the fall of 2012.
- 07:57 14/11/2010
Russia will host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on September 8-9, 2012, a source in the APEC secretariat said on Sunday.
- 18:09 24/06/2010
Presidential plenipotentiary envoy to the Russian Far East Viktor Ishayev urged the stepping-up of construction work for the 2012 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in the Russian city of Vladivostok.
- 09:07 19/05/2010
The foundations of Vladivostok Fortress in the Russian Far-East may collapse as a result of construction work on a highway for the 2010 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, the Russian commission for cultural preservation said
- 12:08 22/04/2010
Several months ago workers building a federal road to the site of the 2012 APEC summit near Vladivostok unearthed a mass grave. The grave held the victims of political persecution campaigns in the 1930s. The project was immediately suspended and the site cordoned off.
- 11:22 27/11/2009
Vladivostok gets ready for APEC forum
- 16:40 12/10/2009
The APEC summit to be held in Russia's Far East in 2012 will help the region attract 3 trillion rubles ($100 billion) in investment by 2015, the governor of the Primorye Territory said on Monday.
- 16:06 20/11/2008
Russia will keep funds earmarked for the 2012 APEC summit in the Far East unchanged while extra expenses will be optimized, a deputy minister of regional development said on Thursday.
- 16:12 03/09/2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on Wednesday on the construction of a huge suspension bridge to link the Far East city of Vladivostok to Russky Island, where the 2012 APEC summit will be held.
- 12:24 31/08/2008
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in the country's Far East port of Vladivostok on Sunday to hold a meeting on issues related to an APEC summit due to take place in the city in 2012.
- 18:22 16/07/2008
The Primorye Territory in Russia's Far East is lagging behind in preparations for the 2012 APEC summit to be held near Vladivostok, a senior government official said on Wednesday.
- 17:56 02/06/2008
The Russian government will provide an additional 420 million rubles ($18 mln) to the city of Vladivostok to cover preparations for the 2012 APEC summit, Russia's prime minister said on Monday.
- 11:53 18/12/2007
A seagull bearing the colors of the Russian flag has won a competition to choose an emblem for the 2012 Asia-Pacific summit to be held in Russia's Far East, the selection commission said on Tuesday.
- 12:05 09/09/2007
President Vladimir Putin thanked leaders of Pacific Rim countries for backing Russia's bid to host the 2012 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, a Russian delegate said.
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