Sardana Avksentyeva swept to power as mayor of Russia’s diamond capital in September.

Expert says deadly gas released from melting permafrost region will lead to 'awful' consequences for global warming.

From frost-resistant woolly pigs to sheep that look like goats and horses that love playing the snow, there are lots of surprises across the taiga.

Reindeer herders find more craters in the far north in a deepening puzzle for scientists. 

This year sees the 400th anniversary of the House of Romanov, the Russian royal family thrown on the scrapheap of history in 1917.

Emergency services refuse to comment cause of extraordinary blast in the dark sky.

Satellites show giant hole ringed by 20 'baby craters'.

New expedition in Laptev Sea suggests increase in the rate of underwater permafrost degradation.

Through his extraordinary photographs, Sergey Anisimov has done more than most to show real Siberia to the world.

But then Siberia also has no less than SEVEN real Santa figures, and you can meet them all here.