On February 28, 2025, in Sakhalin, Russia, a rescue operation successfully brought 374 fishermen to shore after they were carried away on a broken ice floe in the Sea of Okhotsk near the village of ...

People of Japanese descent on Russia's Sakhalin island have long cherished the opportunity to step foot in their ancestral homeland, but the conflict in Ukraine has made those trips all but ...

TASS/. A gas cylinder may have caused the explosion that killed nine people in Sakhalin, a representative of emergency services told TASS on Saturday. "Tentatively, it was an explosion of a 20 ...

"The rescue operation in Sakhalin is over. Eighty-two people were evacuated and brought to shore. There are no casualties," the ministry said. In the morning of February 18, the Russian ...

Karafuto, as Sakhalin was formerly known, was home to 400,000 Japanese before World War II. On the eve of Japan’s defeat in August 1945, Soviet forces invaded Karafuto and seized its official ...