The Australian travel company is revolutionising the image of Siberia in the outside world.
The country's top diplomat denied Moscow was aiming to develop relations in Asia at the expense of contacts with Europe.
So what caused this abearation spotted by tourists in Kamchatka?
This is my second story for The Siberian Times, and again it is about garbage cleaning.
Enough joking. New NASA-Russian research is leading to concern that global warming is causing truly disturbing changes to the virgin forests of northern Russia.
If they can't be bothered to clean up their garbage, they've got to pay.