Troops and government ministries checked 'for fulfilling tasks under wartime conditions'.

With fur on its tail and twice the size of a human being, no one yet knows what the animal is.

Experts crack prehistoric mystery over extinct babies preserved in permafrost since Ice Age, and reveal the VERY surprising colour of this 'tigerlion' species.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is to lead discussion of how to put Siberia on the world map of growth at the annual forum.

Scientists close to precise dating of the Shigir Idol, twice as ancient as the Egyptian Pyramids.

This evocative melody is literally the sound of Nature as a group of Russian percussionists make music on the frozen waters of breathtaking Lake Baikal.

Winter comes to summer including freak hailstorms, mega-flooding but also wild fires.

Deep in Siberia, psychology experts claim they have made an astonishing breakthrough in curing drink and drug addicts.

The man was detained in Irkutsk in December during a raid to detect foreign citizens violating immigration rules.