Anastasia Strashevskaya, 18, from Novosibirsk vows to keep studying as she qualifies for casting for the Miss Russia pageant.

Cosmetologist Natalia Youssef from Krasnoyarsk says American women can benefit from tried and tested Siberian techniques.

Businessman Vladislav Doronin - former partner of model Naomi Campbell - to deliver the award.

Giant Great Grey Owl hitches a lift on epic 5,700 mile journey to Moscow after injuring itself hunting.

Ecologists from several countries lost battle to poachers who caught an endangered dark-feathered bird.

Vladimir Putin surprises a female Siberian student with flowers on her 23rd birthday but also comes face to face with a woolly mammoth.

Her ancient tattoo is a showpiece of the glittering opening ceremony for the Sochi Paralympics.

Breathtaking scenery is revealed on a Kremlin away-day to one of Russia's most spectacular (but little known) regions.