One region alone - Yakutia - has 5 million tons scrap metal dumped in polar regions, an ugly Soviet legacy.

Forward-thinking Siberian city promotes itself at major convention of Asian cities.

Dramatic measures unveiled to boost the economy in Eastern Siberia and Russia's Pacific territories.

New methods of refining medical prescription to benefit the patient's individual genetic make-up are being pioneered in Siberia. 

Intriguing finds from archeological excavations in old garrison town of Tara, a key historic staging post to the east.

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

New statistics on Saturday showed the vast scale of the human effort in Russia to halt a natural disaster that has destroyed swathes of woodland and taiga.

The Russian president tells the Security Council this is a key priority for 'clear and principled decisions'.

State of emergency in Irkutsk region as President Vladimir Putin flies in amid carnage from heavy rain - with ‘worse to come’.