Krasnoyarsk prison

Facilities, including a library and even a pasta and meat shop, ensure jail in Krasnoyarsk tops the list as the best place to be on remand.

The 152-inmate prison will be in  Yeniseisk, 3218 kilometres east of Moscow, said a senior official.

Bone-cracking cold, Gulag prison camps, oil flares visible from space, and bleak industrial cities - this is a common Western stereotype of Siberia.

The feminist activist re-appears after 24 days 'lost' on a jail transfer.

Russian Investigative Committee warns dozens of Russians are killed by bootleg gangs.

Tsarist inmates and Gulag victims were notoriously transported like cattle in packed carriages. Now it's different, as our pictures show.

Husband of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 24, says her health a 'major concern' after two hunger strikes.

Her anti-Putin bandmate Maria Alyokhina was freed earlier from a jail west of the Urals.

Western countries will send some of their most hardened criminals to serve sentences in special prisons in deepest Siberia.