A theme of modernisation was behind the prime minister's swing through Siberia this week.

US National Weather Service claims smoke haze from deadly inferno has crossed the Pacific.

A future international tourist bonanza is being brewed on the historic Great Tea Road.

Deep below the earth, we spend three days with the men and women working at the frontline to keep Russia, and the world, fuelled.

An astonishing story of the power of family bonds has seen Galina hold an emotional meeting with her siblings who last saw her as a tiny baby in 1945.

Born in the Siberian taiga, recluse Agafya Lykova is the sole survivor of the Lykov family who cut themselves off from civilisation in 1936.

Premier Dmitry Medvedev warned it will take two to three weeks to extinguish the fires raging across Siberia.

Grieving mother tells how she eyeballed the family friend suspected of brutal sex attack and murder of helpless girl. 

'I've got to talk to my British colleague,' said the Russian president as he left a key fuel and energy session to take the phone call.

Brazen animal expects anglers to feed her.