As much as two billion tonnes can be extracted from open-cast site over the next 167 years with hopes it can transform rural region.
This witness to the Siberian gold rush might be the only one left in the world.
The quake could be a world record for a tremor caused with involvement by humans, it is claimed.
Dating back 11,000 years - with a coded message left by ancient man from the Mesolithic Age - the Shigir Idol is almost three times as old as the Egyptian pyramids.
Satellites show giant hole ringed by 20 'baby craters'.
Photographers win praise for work which had them in trouble with the Communist Party and KGB.
In a sign of the times, children are taught 'to love the motherland' after the return of Crimea and Sevastopol to Russia.
It's official - Siberia is to stop being one of the only places on earth where you cannot buy a McDonald's hamburger.