But Hsu, a former MP for Kingston and the Islands and now seeking re-election for his second term as MPP, said Premier Doug Ford’s election call was unnecessary. Hsu was quick to point out that ...

The two new species were found in the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, near the Kuril Islands chain of eastern Russia. The research team includes Thiel, Thomas Knebelsberger, Natalia Chernova and Irina Eidus.

The governor of Russia’s Pacific island region of Sakhalin has declared an emergency after a Chinese cargo ship ran aground off its southwest coast. There was no danger to the crew of the An ...

Russia’s prosecutor general on April 21 announced that it had designated the league of residents of Chishima and Habomai islands as ... the area around the Kuril Islands (the Russian name ...

MOSCOW--Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he will definitely one day visit the Southern Kuril Islands which are at the centre of a dispute with Japan that has lasted since World War Two.