Dmitry Medvedev rejected plans to set up a State corporation to run the economy in eastern Siberia and the Far East.
Experts in Tomsk use pioneering techniques to solve crimes.
Rusting Sherman dating from WW2 airlifted all the way across Russia for use in major military parade.
Famous as a place of exile in Tsarist and Soviet times, it could now gets its first international class hotel.
Prisoners left anguished protest note to future generations, revealing how they sacrificed 'blood and bones' and pleading for an end to slavery.
Scholars say medication can dissolve blood clots and improve circulation, with plans to sell it for as little as 500 roubles a pack.
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.
The Tu-104A was once revered around the world, and is now in the process of being brought back to its former glory.
Shocking puce water as nearby nickel processing plant says cause is decades of contamination in Soviet times which company is working to overcome.
Pyramid is literally frozen in time, captured on camera by Vladimir Prokofiev.