Vice Premier says 'majority' of work on the replacement to Soyuz for future of Space travel likely to be in city of Omsk.
Experts give their macabre verdict on mummified remains after speculation a new type of dinosaur had been found.
Hot ash tumbled down the mountain's southeastern slope as Bezymianny showed its power.
Apartment block ravaged by dangerous fire near Vladivostok amid suspicions of a mining rig set up by resident.
Anastasia Strashevskaya, 18, from Novosibirsk vows to keep studying as she qualifies for casting for the Miss Russia pageant.
Elsewhere in Russia’s coldest region desperate authorities spike clouds to induce rain and tame wildfires.
Proposals have been made for high speed trains to run on two routes between Omsk and Novosibirsk, and Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk.
Projects in Buryatia underway despite warnings of a crisis in pollution in world's deepest lake.
New scientific discovery of a 'novel type of luciferin' making the Siberian Luminous Earthworm glow in the dark.