Attraction in Altai region never fails to put on its annual show for tourists.

Bone-cracking cold, Gulag prison camps, oil flares visible from space, and bleak industrial cities - this is a common Western stereotype of Siberia.

More than 130billion roubles invested in special gambling zone to lure wealthy Asian tourists to Russia, complete with its own beach, marina and ski area.

The authorities in Bratsk have received more than 60 calls from residents complaining of bears on the streets and close to houses.

Staycations have become a 'mass source of income' for businesses on the edge of Baikal, with predictions of more to come in 2015.

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

Furnaces for 'advanced' metal production found under dirt track used by summer tourists.

The man was detained in Irkutsk in December during a raid to detect foreign citizens violating immigration rules.