Or is it too expensive to put the environment before the need for energy?
Tuesday is Christmas Day across Russia, so we wish you Merry Christmas from Siberia.
Marine life dying, pools polluted, power outages, no medicines for animals, and two years late, but officials say there is no cause for concern.
Culture on edge of Siberia was 'as advanced' as in Middle East, then considered to be the apex of development.
Pacific capital hit by mega-storm as locals marked Tiger Day.
Spectacular falling meteorite fragments struck the Chelyabinsk region on Friday morning exploding in the atmosphere and crashing to the ground.
She has lived in the wilderness for 71 years but famous Old Believer faces the cameras to deliver world a message for first time.
Born in the Siberian taiga, recluse Agafya Lykova is the sole survivor of the Lykov family who cut themselves off from civilisation in 1936.
Reindeer herders find more craters in the far north in a deepening puzzle for scientists.