Consortium featuring Russian businessman line up bid to invest in mine which develops deposits in Siberia.
He describes a mission to Moscow as the Soviet Union was imploding when he was given access to a document the authorities had earlier claimed did not exist
Wildfires rage around Lake Baikal with 5,000-plus emergency workers deployed.
Valery Malkov from Bratsk, Irkutsk region, was wearing only a T-shirt, shorts and slippers.
The anti-Kremlin campaigner will serve remaining time in jail clinic in Siberia.
The 19th century vessel - formerly the Royal Navy's HMS Pandora - sank as Americans raced to be first to North Pole.
We take a trip to Mount Mamai in the Republic of Buryatia, well-known to local snow fanatics, but still a secret to many outsiders.
Construction has begun on a Park Inn by Radisson hotel in Novosibirsk with its opening planned for 2014.
Siberian airline used the Farnborough Airshow in the UK to order its first Airbus aircraft.