A 15 million rouble subsidy has been granted to airline S7 to operate flights on the Moscow to Gorno-Altaisk route during the rest of 2012.
Starting on 16 July, the leading Kazakh carrier will offer twice weekly connections with glittering capital city Astana.
Russia will have 11 time zones instead of the current nine, with Siberia's Kemerovo region moving one hour further from Moscow.
Locals get time off week for rare visit to the beach.
Siberian airline used the Farnborough Airshow in the UK to order its first Airbus aircraft.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is to lead discussion of how to put Siberia on the world map of growth at the annual forum.
Kuzya's GPS tracker shows he has returned to his motherland.
Plans to remove barbed wire from migration route would allow safe passage and help boost numbers of tigers and leopards.
Locals undress to impress at resorts across four time zones.