1,500 Interior Ministry troops deployed in host city for Winter Olympics.
Children from Yakutsk - the coldest city in the world - will start next year's flame relay for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the flame will twice cross Siberia, once from west to east, then east to west.
The flame warms Siberia and even takes a dip in Lake Baikal en route to the Sochi Winter Games.
How an entrepreneur and cinema producer from Lake Baikal became driver to the UK's Princess Royal at the Winter Olympics.
'Genius' teenager from the Urals helps Russian figure skating team to first gold medal.
Special testing kits sent to Sochi amid 'fears from Japan' and other countries over risk from deliberate deadly disease strike.
London calling for the man whose dark humour surrounding Sochi led to 'censorship'.