Workers at new spaceport write messages to Vladimir Putin on roofs of buildings after going months without pay.

Jessica Long is pleading with the Russian authorities to reverse the new ban on children being adopted to America, which came into force on January 1.

Beauty parlour employee Elena Silina, 24, see her car submerge into a giant pothole in the street.

New shipping link symbolises developing Arctic economy which can avoid eco-damage, says Putin.

Trans Siberian Art Festival in Novosibirsk closed without Gergiev who was stuck in New York.

Tomsk roads got a splash of colour as activists planted artificial flowers in the city's poorly repaired roads.

Bronze statue had been erected last month in Surgut by local people, but was seen as offensive by descendants of political detainees sent to Siberia.

A renaissance of one of Siberia's first outposts as the Far North becomes the new economic frontier.

Calls for 'federalisation' are a threat to country's 'constitutional order, territorial integrity and sovereignty'.

Police checking claims, with one suspect insisting she has been 'framed', and put under police guard after death threats.