Vice Premier says 'majority' of work on the replacement to Soyuz for future of Space travel likely to be in city of Omsk.

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US secretary of state John Kerry will attend the May 14-15 Arctic Council in Kiruna, Sweden.

The city of Chelyabinsk cleared up its broken glass and divers scoured a lake to find a meteorite which hit with the force of a nuclear bomb.

Baby boy aged six months, the sole survivor of massacre, fights for his life.

Impressive official events but also emotional marches by people carrying portraits of loved ones who served in WW2.

Revamped airfields on target in key Siberian locations as military is boosted in energy-rich region.

One region alone - Yakutia - has 5 million tons scrap metal dumped in polar regions, an ugly Soviet legacy.

New rector Mikhail Fedoruk has set a bold target of bringing Siberia's leading university into the top 90 in world rankings.

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