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

Call for severe punishment for parents who leave children to fend for themselves aged under seven.

Pavel Yakovlev makes ‘great scientific discovery’ near his village in Yakutia.

Rising numbers of catwalk models and cover stars come from ‘world’s emerging beauty capital’.

Recent reports showed 89 wildfires in Siberia and 25 in the Russian Far East as a new season of damage to forests gets underway.

New route connecting (almost) to diamond capital Yakutsk faces funding and contractor crisis causing delay.

Her unique style reflects her love affair with her Yakutian motherland.

Made from melted gold and silver jewellery belonging to 147 Yakutian fans.

At least 138 miners brought safely to surface of Alrosa's Mir complex with hopes of getting remaining men out alive.