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

What I wasn't expecting was just how beautiful everything looked under the sparkling white blanket of snow.

A smoky haze in British Columbia originated in Eastern Siberia, says a top Canadian meteorologist.

The man who fell out of a train in below minus 40C and ran seven kilometres in the blistering cold says he didn't bother to tell his wife of his amazing ordeal.

The vehicle with Orthodox pilgrims on board flipped into a ditch and overturned down an embankment, falling 'the height of a 5 storey building’.

Air services are the lifeline of some of the world's most remote communities, with no road or rail links.

Six infernos ravaging the region's nature have been extinguished in the past 24 hours, it is reported.

As the world prepares to herald in the arrival of 2015, we look back at the winter celebrations of the Soviet yesteryear.

Many dozens of skeletons, bones and coffins from old graveyard found as water level lowers.