Prime Minister's eastern promise of special incentives for entrepreneurs.

A daily bucket of icy water poured over the head 'helps block winter illnesses, and makes children optimistic'.

Toe bone DNA research uncovers the sexual relationships of cave-dwellers from Altai foothills in Siberia.

Greenpeace is demanding the Russian government blocks a major Gazprom link to Shanghai across one of Siberia's most sacred wildernesses.

Siberian mountaintop lavatory is 'the most extreme toilet in the world'.

Sacred site up to 17,000 years old - believed to be gateway to the underworld - under threat from modern spray paint artists.

He emphasised the importance of the economically buoyant Asian-Pacific region as critical to the development of Russia as Western markets stall.

As Western children salute Santa's Rudolph, here in the Sakha Republic the antlered animals are in peril from ravenous predators.

International bookmaker Paddy Power is offering odds of 100/1 that the Siberian Yeti will be found by the end of 2012.