New details emerge about 1928 odyssey that changed a dictator.

'When I came to Yergaki National Park I was blown away by the beauty of the place. It was so stunning it felt unreal'.

Foreign visitors transiting on Russian airlines will be able to stay for 72 hours without documents as part of move to help boost tourism and economy.

The highway, connecting the cities of Yakutsk with Magadan takes its name from those in gulag camps who perished constructing the bleak road.

Excitement in console world as preview shows heroine Lara Croft fighting off bears and exploring snowy steppe in latest outing.

Western countries will send some of their most hardened criminals to serve sentences in special prisons in deepest Siberia.

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

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

New legislation in Latvia is poised to offer citizenship in the European Union country to the children and grandchildren of its exiles forcibly sent to Siberia.