An investigation is underway in Tyva region over thousands of people being left without heating in temperatures of minus 40C.
Nowhere in the world runs its roads, trains and airports as well as Siberia during the harsh winters.
Suspected serial rapist, a wealthy man with wife and two children, charged with 14 sex and blackmail crimes, facing up to 15 years in jail.
People feel better about themselves and their lives, defying the international stereotype of Siberia.
230 wildfires rage in Russia’s coldest republic of Yakutia, with state of emergency declared in Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk regions.
The death toll from unusually heavy snowstorms rose to ten at the weekend.
Yetis have been 'sighted' recently in three different remote areas in Kemerovo region, according to local reports.
Prime Minister's eastern promise of special incentives for entrepreneurs.
Sunduki is called the Siberian Stonehenge, yet its site is older than the British standing stones, and arguably 'more mysterious'.