A day of mourning will be held on Thursday for the victims of a fatal five metre high avalanche  that struck a group of seven teenagers. 

Western countries will send some of their most hardened criminals to serve sentences in special prisons in deepest Siberia.

The beaches here are thronged with sun-seekers, children paddle in the warm waters — even the babushki are relaxed.

There are 30 beds in Altai Regional Clinical Children Hospital in Western Siberia, which are never empty.

Same man appears to hold a child upside down on an apartment block roof edge  for a social media picture called: 'Look at this world from a different angle.'

Many families with young children among those finding new homes - and hope - in Siberia.

Tourist camps to be built at Stalinist camps where millions perished in the Soviet era, under new plan.

RusHydro, RosGeologiya and Transneft 'to rebase from Moscow to the Far East'.

Spaso-Zashiverskaya has survived wars, permafrost, and a smallpox outbreak that wiped out its congregation.