Success as Novosibirsk State now rubs shoulders with the likes of Yale and Harvard in the United States and Oxford and Cambridge in Britain.
Foreign visitors transiting on Russian airlines will be able to stay for 72 hours without documents as part of move to help boost tourism and economy.
A two day forum is discussing revolutionary new applications for radiation technology benefiting humankind.
New app designed in Novosibirsk offers dazzling images and travel advice on this 'Stalinist' country.
This evocative melody is literally the sound of Nature as a group of Russian percussionists make music on the frozen waters of breathtaking Lake Baikal.
Bizarre claim in New York Observer says tattooed Ukok 'princess' preserved in ice casket led to Donald Trump's victory over Clinton.
Ideas are clearly needed for more effective ways of countering the annual wildfire scourge, as the trend remains towards drier and hotter summers.
Yury Obraztsov, 54, was beaten, whipped and fed on animal food for 3 years after going missing in 2014.
Vladimir Putin is on a visit to Siberia, but locals question why he is ‘hidden from view’.
One of the giants of science in the Soviet and post-USSR eras, a former president of the Academy of Sciences, died aged 87 after a long illness.