foreigners in Siberia

Businessman Alexander Boiko wants to capitalise on success of city centre 5-star as hotel revolution rolls on.

Rouble exchange rate means there is no better time for foreigners to visit Russia and stay in comfort at bargain prices.

The man was detained in Irkutsk in December during a raid to detect foreign citizens violating immigration rules.

Bone-cracking cold, Gulag prison camps, oil flares visible from space, and bleak industrial cities - this is a common Western stereotype of Siberia.

After US warnings about threat of ISIL, Da'esh and al-Qa'ida attacks around Christmas, senator Franz Klintsevich urges tourists to head east.

Russian minister wants to send Brits on vacation to 'magical' Siberia to make them 'feel 10 years younger'.

Julio Prieto, 29, from Colorado held by FSB after walking across the border from Kazakhstan.

Charting wonderful friendships and shedding light on a region little known and understood by the West, James dreams of a best-seller with his travel memoirs.