Western countries will send some of their most hardened criminals to serve sentences in special prisons in deepest Siberia.

A twice weekly service starting in Irkutsk will fly to Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk and Tyumen.

It's official - Siberia is to stop being one of the only places on earth where you cannot buy a McDonald's hamburger.

Cabin attendant Irina Olaru, 22, planned to wed when she was cruelly killed on doomed in Sinai.

The Yamal peninsula has the world's richest gas reserves, and soon it will grow juicy tomatoes as well.

They have spent 17 years working with under-privileged children, now dance group get chance to help more at their own facility.

One of the world's great dancers is rediscovering his passion for ballet in Novosibirsk after dramatically quitting the Royal Ballet in the United Kingdom.