Vostochny Cosmodrome will 'improve life in the Far East and upgrade its industrial base'.

Russia's largest drama theatre has offered the country's new actor citizen a role in their troupe starting in March.

Dmitry Loshagin held for year and a half after remains of naked wife Yulia, 28, found in woods.

After US warnings about threat of ISIL, Da'esh and al-Qa'ida attacks around Christmas, senator Franz Klintsevich urges tourists to head east.

Carcass of dead animal with bird-like beak and fur on its tail poses new questions.

Pedal power challenge as the Red Bull Trans-Siberian Extreme ultra-stage bicycle race heads from Moscow to Vladivostok.

Prime Minister's eastern promise of special incentives for entrepreneurs.

Meet Minsalim Nimergazeev, orphan turned master craftsman from historic Tobolsk.

Amateur photographer who takes samurai sword for protection in lonely taiga captures the stunning majesty spreading its colours in the sky.