The German car-maker has picked out Siberia as a key area for growth.

Siberian night sky illuminated by launch from Baikonur in Kazakhstan.

Pedal power challenge as the Red Bull Trans-Siberian Extreme ultra-stage bicycle race heads from Moscow to Vladivostok.

Giant sinkhole threatens more homes as it widens each week.

Agafya Lykova, 73, lives in home her father built when he secretly fled Stalin's religious persecution, vanishing from world in 1936.

Tornado - first since 1954 - signals freak downpour, opening craters in roads which swallow up cars.

After US warnings about threat of ISIL, Da'esh and al-Qa'ida attacks around Christmas, senator Franz Klintsevich urges tourists to head east.

Officials promise to monitor situation after four-fold increase in size since February.