Giant gem goes on show as Siberian diamond company Alrosa issues a 16% stock float.
A 44 per cent decline in diamond production was announced by Russian gem producer Alrosa.
Appalling conditions in Alrosa's Mir mine forces end to search on submerged level 310 some 11 days after devastating flood.
For past year devoted Masha has been waiting in a hospital for the beloved owner who will never return.
Boris Fyodorov, 37, complains it was 'too warm', and now wants to try in minus 60C.
The world's top diamond producer is on course for a $10 billion valuation, say analysts.
The Popigai reserves are enough to keep the planet in diamonds for 3,000 years.
100-year-old woman among the hundreds who party the night away on the banks of a Yakutia river as temperatures fall to -43C.