New four times a week link between Beijing and Vladivostok.
Novosibirsk State University climbs faster up the world academic league table than other well established Russian institutions.
Billionaire tycoon aims to use Siberia’s hydropower to fuel legion of data centres cheaper than anywhere else in Russia.
Russian technology is capable of delivering aircraft to land on water and ice and bringing vital links to Siberian communities, Shoigu says.
Graham Vavangas collided with Scania tanker, say police in Yakutia.
Direct links from the eastern cities of Vladivostok and Khabarovsk are on the way, said Russian presidential adviser Igor Levitin.
The asteroid was 'the same size' as the meteor which exploded over Chelyabinsk injuring 1,500.
The country's top diplomat denied Moscow was aiming to develop relations in Asia at the expense of contacts with Europe.
As the world prepares to herald in the arrival of 2015, we look back at the winter celebrations of the Soviet yesteryear.
Quality of life in booming oil capital Tyumen is better than that in Moscow or St Petersburg, says financial survey.