Alrosa to announce timetable within two weeks, with exchange likely open by 2016.

Actor is being awarded the Siberian Oscar (if he arrives to collect it) - but is also now wanted as a tourism guru after 'blunder' on Urals pollution.

He confessed that he and a friend cannibalised another member of their group who died in the extreme cold, say investigators.

One region has shot 58 ravaging brown bears this year because they intrude too close to settlements, destroying livestock.

In the most extreme conditions, the unimaginable can happen. 

The man who fell out of a train in below minus 40C and ran seven kilometres in the blistering cold says he didn't bother to tell his wife of his amazing ordeal.

Valery Malkov from Bratsk, Irkutsk region, was wearing only a T-shirt, shorts and slippers.

Amazing Karina Chikitova in 2014 captured the hearts of people around the world after staying alive with her dog in wild: now she is thriving.