Putin backs proposal to give one hectare to each citizen or person willing to move to region in a bid to stimulate economy and boost population.

100-year-old woman among the hundreds who party the night away on the banks of a Yakutia river as temperatures fall to -43C.

Forensic examination to be made on well preserved remains of possible Lama teacher. 

Experts undertake pioneering tests on skulls to finally understand how doctors carried out remarkable operations more than 2,300 years ago.

Population told there is a 'need' to get back into the garden or field and pull together to overcome economic crisis.

Taxidermy expert uses painstaking techniques to create first ever replica of the ice maiden found preserved in the Siberian high altitude plateau.