Ambitious plans unveiled for 250km/h train that would cut travel times and drive new business and tourism between two countries.

Getting to Siberia for foreigners has never been easier.

Charting wonderful friendships and shedding light on a region little known and understood by the West, James dreams of a best-seller with his travel memoirs.

Last minute rescue bid to prevent Russia's second largest airline going bankrupt.

The Russian president took part in the 'Flight of Hope', giving a flying lesson to young white cranes ahead of their epic 5,000 km migration.

First cargo train on the final link of Amur-Yakutsk line in historic expansion of Siberia's great railways.

This was the generic response over the past year when I've told people about my plans to run in this Sunday's Siberian International Marathon.

Her anti-Putin bandmate Maria Alyokhina was freed earlier from a jail west of the Urals.

Thanks to Novosibirsk scientists we can see how she looked in real life, the vivid colours she wore and her stylish headdress. And her beauty secrets!