Practised in Yakutia for generations, there is only one way to learn the art of ice fishing as Yakutia school children have discovered.

Meet the woman who says: 'I will always be there for my maniac'.

.....and afterwards, time for wee dram!

Yakutia Airlines boosts flights from Alaska to some of the world's greatest, yet most unexplored holiday destinations.

New cities and industries could be created from construction of high-speed railway and motorway routes spanning whole of country.

None are naked: instead, they're far more interesting…

New director Andrey Gorban, 47, on the challenges of modernising one of Siberia's favourite zoos, and dealing with his tapir's tantrums.

This is the clearest evidence that our ancestors speared and killed the extinct giant.