'Scary' scenes as fumes from burning forests cover Lake Baikal, with people - and bears - fleeing 'Apocalypse'.

Vital link uniting east and west of the country will realise a long-held dream.

The Russian government is to give priority to Siberia and the Far East as it puts modernisation on fast-forward, insists Dmitry Medvedev.

Archeologists discovered a new stone bracelet, two sharp pins, a marble ring and fox tooth pendants.

Thousands of rock paintings make remote area the world’s best place to see 5,000 year old alfresco art.

Serious and immaculate, her haunting image is barely visible on tsarist-era Krasnoyarsk pictures, only spotted now, with new technology.

Siberian woman sets fire to large haystack in revenge for being blocked on web.

The aim? To put in place a Moscow government 'friendly' to Washington, and to protect US interests and citizens.

With forest fires still burning across Siberia, hot summer temperatures are moving across the continent.