Hopes for significant rise of Chinese visitors and special fares between April and October to encourage young Russians to travel to Baikal.
London calling for the man whose dark humour surrounding Sochi led to 'censorship'.
Fears another bear that also failed to hibernate for winter is also on the run near Vilyuchinsk.
Many Pacific islands are famed for their palm trees, but Sakhalin is facing some of the heaviest January blizzards in living memory.
Russia marks Orthodox Christmas Day on 7 January according to the Julian calendar (and for some this is also a time for fortune telling).
As the world prepares to herald in the arrival of 2015, we look back at the winter celebrations of the Soviet yesteryear.
Vessels Kapitan Dranitsyn and Admiral Makarov 'marooned' in east for the rest of winter after getting trapped off Chukotka.
Giant holes created when pingos erupted after filling with gas.