A 175-room Marriott hotel is to open on a landmark site in Novosibirsk, while Irtuksk is set to get both a Kempinski and a Hyatt.
'Up to 30 million could move to Far East to receive enticing land gift': but will they?
This Russian treasure has 1,500 species of flora and fauna not found anywhere else on the planet.
Renowned scientist says temperatures could 'rise twice faster' in Yakutia than the rest of the world.
The 152-inmate prison will be in Yeniseisk, 3218 kilometres east of Moscow, said a senior official.
Sightings of 'primeval monsters' in Siberia's Lake Labynkyr were made before 'Nessie' was spotted in Scotland.
Friends of missing American questioned using polygraph by police as search goes on for 25 year old student last seen early Sunday.
Stretching 120 km over the frozen East Siberian Sea, would you dare drive it?