An accident involved 17 miners some 365 metres beneath the surface at Alrosa's Udachninskiy ore-dressing plant 14 km south of the Arctic Circle.
Waste threatens 11,000 people in Pervomaisk after 'violation of safety rules’.
Panning to be legalised in former GULAG region in bid to crackdown on black market.
The 5.3 tremor was felt over a wide area but was centred some 21km from Belovo in Kemerovo region.
Hi-tech project would use computer models to predict climate change and help with safe production of oil and gas in Northern Russia.
Memorandum signed on Bazhenov field between Russia's second largest oil producer and the French giant.
Learn to smell the scent of the rouble during your morning shower, demands the head of coal mining Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev.
Rising numbers of catwalk models and cover stars come from ‘world’s emerging beauty capital’.