Novosibirsk State University climbs faster up the world academic league table than other well established Russian institutions.
Success as Novosibirsk State now rubs shoulders with the likes of Yale and Harvard in the United States and Oxford and Cambridge in Britain.
Siberian expedition to find English steamboat 'The Thames' led by pioneering British mariner that sank in 1876.
The acids are seen as vital to decrease development of cardiovascular diseases and promote good health.
Deputy finance minister Mikhail Kotyukov, 36, given key job amid 'crisis' over science reforms.
With smoke having blown as far as the US and Canada, experts now say 'the trend is positive' in controlling fires raging from the Urals to the Pacific.
Vladimir Putin surprises a female Siberian student with flowers on her 23rd birthday but also comes face to face with a woolly mammoth.