The flag they plant on top of the mountain will display all those supporting the project. 

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

Sensational underwater treasures - including mummies of Hun-era fashionistas - recaptured from oblivion.

This is the first picture of how a stylish 'ancient Egyptian' necklace was discovered in the heart of Siberia.

Incredible friendship between Amur tiger and goat cannot last, he predicts.

Unique pictures taken this month show the Sailugem bear, proving both that this species was not mythical - and has survived - in the Altai Mountains.

The rare predator learns to hunt in the rehabilitation centre, and the first lessons are hard.

Futuristic Khanty-Mansiysk gives a new image to Siberia ahead of shale revolution.

Projects in Buryatia underway despite warnings of a crisis in pollution in world's deepest lake.

International bookmaker Paddy Power is offering odds of 100/1 that the Siberian Yeti will be found by the end of 2012.