Aged 68, she has never seen a town - and refused a helicopter ride to hospital.
Tourist camps to be built at Stalinist camps where millions perished in the Soviet era, under new plan.
Major engineering achievement will connect Russia’s largest region to Moscow by train for the first time.
Geysers, active volcanoes, thermal lakes, mountains, Pleistocene glaciers, cascading rivers... and a lot of bears!
No, a mysterious Chinese-style palace thousands of miles from home in Siberia.
Seasonal greetings to all parts of the world marking Christmas Day on 25 December, even though we have to wait a little longer!