I am now, for the first time in my life, living in a sanctioned country.

Cosmetologist Natalia Youssef from Krasnoyarsk says American women can benefit from tried and tested Siberian techniques.

More than 20,000 residents were moved as rivers burst their banks with forecasts of worsening flooding later this week.

Born in the Siberian taiga, recluse Agafya Lykova is the sole survivor of the Lykov family who cut themselves off from civilisation in 1936.

Diamond capital of Russia shines with one of the most spectacular 1 May demonstration in the country.

'Scary' scenes as fumes from burning forests cover Lake Baikal, with people - and bears - fleeing 'Apocalypse'.

We join photographer Kisoon Choi on a journey of discovery across Yakutia and the Far East and celebrate the unique landscapes, cities and peoples.

Pro-Kremlin eco-groups echo Greenpeace concerns by highlighting burning of forests which do not appear in government reports.

The highway, connecting the cities of Yakutsk with Magadan takes its name from those in gulag camps who perished constructing the bleak road.

Flooding now covers an area almost as large as France, Germany and Britain combined, or close to the equivalent of Texas and California.