Baby Gertruda is growing fast but is too playful to stay still on the scales long enough for a weight check.

The largest in the city, and also the tallest (Soviet-looking) building. Handy for the railway station, which is just a minute walk across the square. 

Hotel's 430 rooms on 23 floors vary from 'luxury suites' to standard accommodation, making a traditional bolt hole for those wanting a break from rail trips across Russia, but many more too. 

As the hotel boasts, regular guests ‘are top managers of leading Russian and foreign companies, celebrities, famous actors and actresses and outstanding sportsmen. High operational standards and professional staff are the best recommendation for the hotel’. 

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

An accident involved 17 miners some 365 metres beneath the surface at Alrosa's Udachninskiy ore-dressing plant 14 km south of the Arctic Circle.

Vladimir Putin and Chinese president witness agreement that will see cross-border cooperation to work in massive Far East mine.

Parents' nightmare as mystery middle-aged man takes little Vika in Tomsk.

Vlada Dzyuba, 14, was dreaming of catwalk stardom, but now her parents 'cannot afford to fly her body home' to bury her.

This year sees the 400th anniversary of the House of Romanov, the Russian royal family thrown on the scrapheap of history in 1917.

Place your bets as Russia takes on Macau and Las Vegas to woo Pacific gamblers.