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

We join photographer Kisoon Choi on a journey of discovery across Yakutia and the Far East and celebrate the unique landscapes, cities and peoples.

Tsar's daughter may, after all, have escaped the execution which wiped out the royal family, says new book.

Hope for future of the rare species as census says there could be as many as 540 of them now living in the Far East.

Unique research station in the remote taiga is used by scientists worldwide to measure if man is behind climate change.

Tigre de Cristal under fire for 'abusing' rare big cat to promote gambling revolution.

Pictures show child from Middle Ages as he is unwrapped after his remains were 'accidentally preserved' close to Arctic.

The flame warms Siberia and even takes a dip in Lake Baikal en route to the Sochi Winter Games.

Dmitry Medvedev rejected plans to set up a State corporation to run the economy in eastern Siberia and the Far East.