Tearful plea on president's televised call-in leads to promise to overcome carnage in Khakassia and Chita.

After a series of delays, Prime Minister orders the line to Russia’s diamond capital Yakutsk to be ready for the first passengers by July.

Two weeks after collecting his passport from Vladimir Putin, the Hollywood actor discloses intriguing DNA in his family tree.

Many dozens of skeletons, bones and coffins from old graveyard found as water level lowers.

Remains of the child suggest an 'unknown European invasion of Siberia deep in ancient times'.

Famous as a place of exile in Tsarist and Soviet times, it could now gets its first international class hotel.

A wartime spy who helped defeat the Nazis, she was an inspiration for the Russian beauty and fashion icon.

Pictures of the paws, stashed in the tyres of their vehicle, have gone around the world.

A $7.4 billion cash injection for Trans-Siberian and Baikal-Amur rail lines confirmed by president.

Scientists challenge nature by adopting an endangered orphan kitten, aiming to release her into the wild.