Raging flames engulf vessel in ten minutes, but 122 passengers escape safely in life rafts after 'pandemonium'.

Police warn that the foreign visitors are 'risking their lives' on world's deepest lake.

Huge economic boost from upgrade to Baikal-Amur and Trans-Siberian lines.

A probe has been ordered by the Krasnoyarsk mayor into the death of another giraffe at the city's zoo, one of the largest in Russia.

The senior politician called for a change of identity for the vast eastern third of Russia, as the country angles itself towards Asia.

Now the prickly rodent lives no closer than 2,000 kilometres away, but its remains - recently dated - are scattered in caves of the Altai Mountains.

Independent film makers from around the world choose Siberia.

Wild animal ran amok in mall before being shot dead, sparking outcry from animal rights campaigners.

The German president was today honouring Vyacheslav Molodin, deputy director of Novosibirsk Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography.

With partial shells, this intriguing new fossil find in modern-day Yakutia shows this northern polar region in Cretaceous times was not….cold.