Panning to be legalised in former GULAG region in bid to crackdown on black market.

Tsarist inmates and Gulag victims were notoriously transported like cattle in packed carriages. Now it's different, as our pictures show.

Bone-cracking cold, Gulag prison camps, oil flares visible from space, and bleak industrial cities - this is a common Western stereotype of Siberia.

The 152-inmate prison will be in  Yeniseisk, 3218 kilometres east of Moscow, said a senior official.

Heart-wrenching but inspiring story of romance emerges as 96 year old Japanese ex-PoW pens emotional last letter to his dead Russian wife. 

Statue to Soviet dictator erected close to proposed memorial to his victims of political repression is labelled 'blasphemy’.

Futuristic Khanty-Mansiysk gives a new image to Siberia ahead of shale revolution.

Graham Vavangas collided with Scania tanker, say police in Yakutia.