Alleged to have embezzled four million roubles, video of arrest shows him driving diamond-encrusted Mercedes.

American star asks to see a typical village in Sakha Republic as he speaks of pride in his Russian roots.

Angara Airlines, based in Irkutsk, has launched new flights from Novosibirsk to Irkutsk and diamond-mining Mirny in the Sakha Republic.

Investigators find one billion roubles in currency and expensive jewellery, including a diamond-encrusted pen, as official faces corruption charge.

Latest survivors give harrowing accounts of how they feared they would drown in underground tidal wave.

Diamond capital of Russia shines with one of the most spectacular 1 May demonstration in the country.

100-year-old woman among the hundreds who party the night away on the banks of a Yakutia river as temperatures fall to -43C.

Scheme would allow epic journeys from London to the Japanese capital with major international crossing between Sakhalin and Hokkaido.

Once banned as a result of over-fishing, now there are plans for one million sturgeon a year in Siberian river