Director of Alliance Francaise cultural organisation in Irkutsk 'removed his electronic tagging device and fled'.

At least 21 more are fighting for life, gravely ill, in hospital from the lethal concoction.

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

Defence Ministry move seen as bolstering Russia's eastward tilt.

Vladimir Putin's supporters beaten in Siberian region.

29 carriages with coal went off the rails on the Trans-Siberian line in Irkutsk region.

As usual there is outlandish speculation about an alien visit, but there is genuine puzzlement and disagreement among experts over the mystery object.

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

230 wildfires rage in Russia’s coldest republic of Yakutia, with state of emergency declared in Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk regions.