Plans for modern Nature Theme Park and Acqua-park on site of old pulp and paper mill that spewed pollution into lake.

Dazzling white 'sand', perfect sunshine, blue waves on the horizon, friends, a great mood… and minus 20C

Is increased tourism, or a normal natural cycle, to blame for the rapid growth of spirogyra to 50% of the coastline?

Russian government proposes intriguing solution if Ulaanbaatar halts plans for hydropower dams on the Selenga River.

Cache of White Army weapons used in Russian Civil War seized by police who destroyed 'dangerous' grenades and ammunition.

Petroglyphs some 7,000 years older than earlier thought with ancients artists using same style in Siberia and Mongolia.

'All forest wildfires extinguished' in Siberian Federal District, say officials, but peat flames still raging.

Seven year old sparked full scale police inquiry but had simply lost track of time as he read good books.