Quality of life in booming oil capital Tyumen is better than that in Moscow or St Petersburg, says financial survey.

Up to 300,000 people a year expected to pass through Sabetta International as region gears up to become a gas powerhouse.

Wide-body aircraft being used for passengers flying into Sabetta International as region gears up to become a gas powerhouse.

Yana on her dream to create a magazine matching Vogue, and Taya on photographing Siberian women to rival the world's top models.

Russian president hints at possible future 'compromises' on dispute over the islands, as 2nd Eastern Economic Forum opens in Vladivostok.

Alrosa calls for end to $25,000 ceiling on individual diamond exports.

A 175-room Marriott hotel is to open on a landmark site in Novosibirsk, while Irtuksk is set to get both a Kempinski and a Hyatt. 

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