Dozens of major tremors recorded this year as scientists monitor 'unusually strong seismic activity' that will one day tear continent in half.

Photographer seeks crowdfunding for trip to this little known natural wonder so remote that almost no pictures exist.

Intrigue over how German-made 12th century blade, adorned in Sweden, reached Siberia.

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

New cities and industries could be created from construction of high-speed railway and motorway routes spanning whole of country.

The rare predator was caught after weeks of wandering into a village in Russian Far East.

Russia is offering the best tax incentives in the world to create its own Vegas near Vladivostok. 

Pictured: the gleaming riches no-one was meant to see belonging to an ancient nomad potentate, and his queen...or was she his concubine?