The luxurious new 175-room Marriott is changing the face of the city in readiness for a 2014 opening. 

Iturup gets connected, opening up the stunning scenery of the Kuril Islands to tourism.

Wide-body aircraft being used for passengers flying into Sabetta International as region gears up to become a gas powerhouse.

Teenager Arkady Abramovich has secured the $46 million undeveloped Koltogor oil field in western Siberia.

Challenge to polar doom warning from respected international expert Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University.

Quality of life in booming oil capital Tyumen is better than that in Moscow or St Petersburg, says financial survey.

Winter comes to summer including freak hailstorms, mega-flooding but also wild fires.

Average temperatures in the north of the Kara and Barents seas were 4C to 5C higher than previous years.

Based near Anadyr, its role is to 'monitor combat readiness' of military units, survey terrain, and air patrols.