A new air link between Alaska and the Russian Far East is opening up a new world of adventure tourism to US visitors.
New statistics on Saturday showed the vast scale of the human effort in Russia to halt a natural disaster that has destroyed swathes of woodland and taiga.
No official explanations for darkness over swathes of Yakutia amid conspiracy theories of a UFO, new weapons tests, a meteorite, or pollution from wildfires.
Video and pictures show experts conducting initial autopsy on the extinct creature preserved by permafrost.
Ancient hunters butchered woolly mammoths at Taba-Yuryakh site some 26,000 years ago.
Journalists test Chinese Geely on epic 10,000km journey from Belarus and find it performs well in the harsh climate - even if they did have to wear ski clothes.
Construction launched on 3,968 kilometre 'Power of Siberia' gas pipeline.
Actor is being awarded the Siberian Oscar (if he arrives to collect it) - but is also now wanted as a tourism guru after 'blunder' on Urals pollution.