Powerful telescope placed 1.3km below the icy water hopes to track invisible particles from the sun and stars.

New legislation in Latvia is poised to offer citizenship in the European Union country to the children and grandchildren of its exiles forcibly sent to Siberia.

Nicknamed Forrest Gump, he completes a 9,905 kilometre odyssey braving temperatures as low as minus 48C on his 18 month adventure.

Vital link uniting east and west of the country will realise a long-held dream.

Proof of recovery of endangered species after 'historic' sighting of Siberian tiger 2000 km west of its usual habitat.

A desperate hunt for six teenagers missing on a Tyva mountain was hampered in poor weather conditions including the threat of new avalanches. 

Animal rights organisation criticises 'savage' use of female body part as 'talisman', and other 'cures'.

Russia’s worst-ever serial killer convicted today for raping and murdering 56 more women. 

Construction has begun on a Park Inn by Radisson hotel in Novosibirsk with its opening planned for 2014.