'Turn to the East', which started a year ago, is gaining popularity

Modern-day zeppelins costing $30 million each would revolutionise transport links and economic exploitation of Siberia in $240 billion plan.

Vital link uniting east and west of the country will realise a long-held dream.

Two Chinese companies compete to build a permafrost crossing of the Lena River.

New methods of refining medical prescription to benefit the patient's individual genetic make-up are being pioneered in Siberia. 

Norilsk is home to the world biggest mining and metallurgy complex, and is shut off from the world in more ways than one. 

This vast region has some of the world's greatest rivers, but they could do much more to support the economic regeneration and security of the country.

Six infernos ravaging the region's nature have been extinguished in the past 24 hours, it is reported.