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

Hi-tech technologies have been used to track smoke plumes from forest fires burning across eastern Russia as they cross the Pacific.

The authorities in Bratsk have received more than 60 calls from residents complaining of bears on the streets and close to houses.

Events highlight the scourge of terrorism and the unity of Russians in the face of the cruel attack on children and parents.

This and 10 other silly questions answered by the Arctic explorer Alexander Oboimov.

A 15 million rouble subsidy has been granted to airline S7 to operate flights on the Moscow to Gorno-Altaisk route during the rest of  2012.

With oil prices so high, people might sympathise with the man who dug a 60 metre tunnel to obtain his own supply.

Intense search reveals no sign of Mil Mi-8 lost early Saturday with 12 people on board.

Oksana Kizhnerova 'shot at female passenger in car blocking her from overtaking'.