As host of the upcoming APEC summit, Russia is expected to take APEC meetings as an opportunity to boost its influence in the Asia-Pacific region and further its "Look East" strategy.
Vladimir Lenin's vision of developing Russia's far east would not be out of place in President Vladimir Putin's talking points for the APEC summit this week in the Pacific port of Vladivostok.
Russia would increase exports of oil and natural gas to the Asia-Pacific to counterbalance instability in Middle East supplies, an APEC expert said Monday.
APEC is a forum which facilitates economic cooperation among 21 nations and regions in Asia-Pacific.
A meeting to thrash out proposals for the upcoming APEC summit was "productive" and "constructive," meeting chairman Igor Morgulov said on Monday.
Russia has deployed about 10,000 police, and mobilized vessels and fighters for the upcoming APEC summit in the Far East city of Vladivostok.
As rotating president of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Russia hosted a number of productive events in a fruitful year, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
The 2012 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC) opened on Sunday with its usual senior officials' meeting aimed at identifying issues for further discussion.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday Moscow would not settle the peace treaty issue with Japan during the upcoming APEC meeting.
China expects the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Russia to promote trade and investment liberalization.
Finance ministers of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies have agreed to promote financial literacy education in the region.
The Philippines will host the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders' Meeting in 2015, a senior government official said on Wednesday.
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