Remarkable images show a test tube blood sample from a female of the long-extinct species. 

The Kremlin's 'Mr Siberia' Viktor Tolokonsky tells 'Sphere of Influence' business magazine what our vast region means to him.

Beijing reviewing its energy needs with slowing economy, says report.

Thousands of rock paintings make remote area the world’s best place to see 5,000 year old alfresco art.

In distant times, parts of California and Hawaii were administered from the city of Irkutsk.

This year sees the 400th anniversary of the House of Romanov, the Russian royal family thrown on the scrapheap of history in 1917.

Monster is jailed for life for murdering as many as 60 victims mainly in Moscow's Bitsa Park.

Private helicopter brought in to located Tyva Avia aircraft that had 13 people on board in remote Siberia.