Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

A renaissance of one of Siberia's first outposts as the Far North becomes the new economic frontier.

Four children among those in intensive care, as locals undergo mass evacuation and quarantining, while reindeer herd decimated.

Or is it too expensive to put the environment before the need for energy?

Mysterious 'gigantic' hole in remote region spotted by helicopters over gas-rich Yamal peninsula.

Satellites show giant hole ringed by 20 'baby craters'.

Academics restart work to unlock secrets of mystery medieval civilization with links to Persia on edge of the Siberian Arctic.

A deal would be the biggest Chinese equity participation in onshore oil in Russia.

Dissecting them like surgical abscesses to release the gas seen as one solution to avoid future eruptions.

Supplies to EU maintained despite mega-blast with flames 200 metres in the sky, and heat felt 1km from fireball.