Nurse Elena is coaled over after receiving 5 tons of coal for shedding 35 kilograms.

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

Learn to smell the scent of the rouble during your morning shower, demands the head of coal mining Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev.

These remarkable pictures show how young Siberian scientist Irina Mukhamedshina, 22, has trained a fox to be as obedient as a dog.

Russian president discovers 'proof' that fabled creature exists while on short vacation in Kemerovo region.

Yury Davydov, 67, gets proof of his roots after years of waiting: his grandmother was Stalin's 14 year old lover.

Find of 'global significance' made in Jurassic graveyard reveals 'two adults and two babies'.

A methane explosion at  Mine No. 7 in the Prokopyevsky district of Kemerovo region led to the deaths of four miners.

Emergency services received calls from worried residents concerned that doomsday had arrived.