Growing number of brave Siberians strip off for the winter, with debate raging about the benefits of taking to the snow and ice naked.

The mayor of Vladivostok is fed up with Moscow being asleep when he needs key decisions to be made.

Implements or weapons made of quartz and quartzite unearthed among tons of bones under a Siberian village called... Mammoth.

Thousands of years ago woolly mammoths came here to die: but why?  The macabre ancient remains haunt local residents to this day. 

Former paratrooper conscript Timofey Menshikov wanted to escape modern life - and vodka - now faces reunion with family he left behind.

A future international tourist bonanza is being brewed on the historic Great Tea Road.

New 'plug-in' cars coping well with harsh climate and landscape and were even recharged overnight in remote taiga at -33C.

An extraordinary adventure, blessed by the Queen of England and the Tsarina of Russia.

A shocking new trend has hit Siberia: men murdering the girlfriends who spurn them.