Feeling ill during foreign assignment, she was sent alone on 300 km train journey less than 48 hours before she died of serious blood infection.
The distance between capital city Moscow and key Siberian cities could shrink in plan envisaged by the Kremlin leader.
The man who fell out of a train in below minus 40C and ran seven kilometres in the blistering cold says he didn't bother to tell his wife of his amazing ordeal.
Aged 71, she shuns civilisation and accepts a helicopter ride back to her home in remote Siberia, without a gun to protect her from bears.
Siberia's colossal resource potential is a great competitive advantage that needs to be skilfully deployed.
Young tigress died from 'prolonged hypothermia and exhaustion' after fears mother was shot by poachers.
Painful reality and emotional 'forgiveness' after Tomsk man tracks down modern relatives of his ancestor's NKVD secret police killer.
Enough joking. New NASA-Russian research is leading to concern that global warming is causing truly disturbing changes to the virgin forests of northern Russia.
Fast track evolution as great Siberian symbol is surprisingly unmasked as an immigrant breed.