G20

Operator MTS plugs in key northern communities to fast mobile internet.

Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping oversee agreement of an historic pact ahead of G20 meeting in St Petersburg.

More than 20 calves born although park keepers say there could be more.

Twin sisters Violetta and Evelina Yachmenev left hospital in Barnaul just before they turned two months old.

The airline - known for its Novosibirsk-based S7 brand - has been once of the success stories of Russian aviation in recent years.

Despite the cold weather, growers in Irkutsk are managing to sell their own fruit developed in greenhouses and pollinated by foreign bees.

State of emergency in Irkutsk region as President Vladimir Putin flies in amid carnage from heavy rain - with ‘worse to come’.

Environmentalists call for World Bank to halt funding for projects that could alter flow of rivers leading into lake with water nearing critical low.

Geysers, active volcanoes, thermal lakes, mountains, Pleistocene glaciers, cascading rivers... and a lot of bears!