The idea of the Immortal Regiment was born in Tomsk, Siberia three years ago, and has now spread throughout Russia and abroad.

When the temperature dips to minus 30C in Tobolsk, kids are allowed a day off school.

Girl walked 8 km all alone in minus 34C from remote family home to report her beloved grandmother's death, and beg help for blind grandfather.

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

Pet saves helpless child's life acting as surrogate parent in temperatures averaging minus 12C.

Father missing under snow; more than 200 people continue search and rescue at -23C, snowstorm and bleak light of polar night.

I am now, for the first time in my life, living in a sanctioned country.

Teenager Arkady Abramovich has secured the $46 million undeveloped Koltogor oil field in western Siberia.

Horror of seven-year-old girl sexually abused by uncle for 52,000 roubles as woman aimed to clear debts.

New legislation in Latvia is poised to offer citizenship in the European Union country to the children and grandchildren of its exiles forcibly sent to Siberia.