surveys Siberia

People feel better about themselves and their lives, defying the international stereotype of Siberia.

Quality of life in booming oil capital Tyumen is better than that in Moscow or St Petersburg, says financial survey.

Startling new statistics show that some 23 villages in vast Krasnoyarsk region are populated only by men.

Three cities east of the Urals are in the top ten for a new survey of national contentment.

43 bears arrive to feast on two rare Red List whales washed ashore close to far-flung settlement.

Startling new details emerge of the most mysterious of Siberia's newly created giant permafrost holes.

Dozens of captive red and sika deer were released into the wild in a bid to coax the threatened Siberian tiger - the world's largest cat - back to China.

Scientists are puzzling to explain the tremor, 8.3 on the Richter scale, by far the largest since records began. 

Former spies and military operatives write handbook for tourists and hunters, using techniques learned during Soviet era.

Peking to Paris - 'the longest and toughest challenge anyone can drive in a vintage or classic car'.