Setting himself on fire and using nothing but a snowdrift to soften his landing, wannabe stuntman shows why he is a real-life Siberian Superman.

Monuments to the Bolshevik leader are the key to a new competitive sport called Lenining. 

Stranded on Teletskoye Lake in the Altai Mountains, bird's only hope of survival is to be caught and put in a zoo.

Russia could get a major boost from an influx of Chinese visitors.

Art student draws unique glimpse of the 9,258 kilometre Trans-Siberian Railway.

New app designed in Novosibirsk offers dazzling images and travel advice on this 'Stalinist' country.

Hope for future of the rare species as census says there could be as many as 540 of them now living in the Far East.

Valery Malkov from Bratsk, Irkutsk region, was wearing only a T-shirt, shorts and slippers.

Real-life adventurers to a 'professional blonde' queue to participate in the ultimate brutal television reality contest, where 'rape and murder' are not banned.

Friends of missing American questioned using polygraph by police as search goes on for 25 year old student last seen early Sunday.