Dramatic dark cloud swathes the city of Omsk as a bright sunny day turns night-like.

Tsarist inmates and Gulag victims were notoriously transported like cattle in packed carriages. Now it's different, as our pictures show.

Kissing and hugging to survive, hallucinations, fearing their 4 children would be orphans, giving up, cuddling in the Arctic snow to die...then a miracle.

Mother goes in search of Bogdan when she wakes at 6am, and finds he has wandered out of house in middle of night into fierce frost.

Rouble exchange rate means there is no better time for foreigners to visit Russia and stay in comfort at bargain prices.

The celebrity emerged with a new fur coat, saying: 'My friends said I was mad when they learned I was going to Siberia'.

The meteorite that crashed to Earth in the Urals was attacked by a UFO causing it to explode and shatter, it was claimed on Thursday.

Shocking remains of nine beheaded brown bears slain and mutilated by poachers have been found by mushroom pickers in the Republic of Buryatia.