Police detained two men in Trans-Baikal region on suspicion of selling  the counterfeit liquor.

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

Nikolay Petshak, 64, who swam from Russia to America, died in ‘accident’ in river where he carried the Olympic flame.

Western countries will send some of their most hardened criminals to serve sentences in special prisons in deepest Siberia.

Place your bets as Russia takes on Macau and Las Vegas to woo Pacific gamblers.

Russia’s coldest region harvests first berries and mushrooms weeks ahead of schedule.

Tornado - first since 1954 - signals freak downpour, opening craters in roads which swallow up cars.

Symptoms suspected in seven cows at farm in Zabaikalsky region.