From frost-resistant woolly pigs to sheep that look like goats and horses that love playing the snow, there are lots of surprises across the taiga.
Siberia's colossal resource potential is a great competitive advantage that needs to be skilfully deployed.
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.