Gazprom says operations are 'in full swing' with work due to start soon on iconic pipeline to provide gas on eastern route.
Vineyards will flourish as winters become almost 10C milder heralding a large population influx, says new scientific prediction.
'Second Spring' arrives with rhododendron blossoming for rare encore in October.
Winter comes to summer including freak hailstorms, mega-flooding but also wild fires.
Here we go back in time and remember 13 remarkable moments of 2013.
New DNA findings alter the sex of one of most famous recent Siberian archeological finds of human remains.
Siberian ancestors hunted the squat short-legged horse, even though this type of animal was believed to have been wiped out 400,000 years ago.
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.