Journalist Kate Baklitskaya today begins an epic 3 month tour of some of Siberia's most iconic places.
Beijing proposes tours to neighbouring Khabarovsk region which wind the clock back to the Communist era.
Grapes for first 10,000 bottles of wine now being harvested in Altai vineyards.
Locals get time off week for rare visit to the beach.
Winter comes to summer including freak hailstorms, mega-flooding but also wild fires.
Zhirinovsky renews old idea about using east of Russia as a place of punishment.
Communists want Soviet dictator immortalised forever in stone.