One early visitor: a fireball streaking across the sky and splashing into Lake Baikal.

A vision of deepening ties between Russia and China outlined by Ambassador to Beijing Sergei Razov. 

Recent reports showed 89 wildfires in Siberia and 25 in the Russian Far East as a new season of damage to forests gets underway.

Assembly of Soyuz-2.1a rocket has begun at new cosmodrome as country prepares for new space era.

'All forest wildfires extinguished' in Siberian Federal District, say officials, but peat flames still raging.

Woman on track doesn't move as tram comes closer, failing to stop before striking her. 

Bronze Age burial near Lake Baikal intrigues archeologists who have not yet revealed contents of leather pouch between man's kneecaps.

Almost 3 million hectares on fire, including Arctic, with fumes having hit area larger than European Union.

Ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the flame will twice cross Siberia, once from west to east, then east to west.