Engineer Anna beat off competition from 300 others and could now become Russia’s fifth woman in space.
A special tax regime - including zero rates - to kick-start the economy is under active consideration by the Kremlin.
Novosibirsk State University climbs faster up the world academic league table than other well established Russian institutions.
Russian president discovers 'proof' that fabled creature exists while on short vacation in Kemerovo region.
Wooden statue 5.3m high with eight faces gazed over the water for only two decades, but leaves us with a conundrum 11,600 years later.
The Yamal peninsula has the world's richest gas reserves, and soon it will grow juicy tomatoes as well.
DNA 'tests' of hair supposedly from a Yeti in a Siberian cave show it comes from an unknown mammal closely related to man, it was claimed last night.
The aim is to develop and implement the best Siberian R&D innovations in agriculture, it was announced.
Dating back 11,000 years - with a coded message left by ancient man from the Mesolithic Age - the Shigir Idol is almost three times as old as the Egyptian pyramids.