City has 'high chances' of hosting the Under-20 World Ice Hockey Championship in 2023.
Wearing scuba gear and hovering upside-down below the frozen surface, can there be any more extreme sport?
Stanley cup winner Valery Kamensky and other stars make history on frozen Lake Baikal.
His career with the St Louis Blues was earlier delayed because of the NHL lockout but the impact of the 21 year old has been dramatic.
The anglers became trapped in mouth of Silinka River as it joins the Amur River.
Russian athletes will perform at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea under a white flag, following controversial IOC ruling.
Spectacular falling meteorite fragments struck the Chelyabinsk region on Friday morning exploding in the atmosphere and crashing to the ground.
There are movies made about the girls performing at the Paralympic Games and the parents who adopted them. But no one notices them in Russia.
There's no better place to grow than in the towns like my historic Tara, founded in 1594, without traffic jams and supermarkets, but with winter fun and fresh air.