oil mining Siberia

Memorandum signed on Bazhenov field between Russia's second largest oil producer and the French giant.

TNK-BP, a Russian-British company, is under fire concerning 784 environmental accidents reported in 2011, compared with 20 by rival Lukoil.

Hi-tech project would use computer models to predict climate change and help with safe production of oil and gas in Northern Russia.

Journalist Kate Baklitskaya today begins an epic 3 month tour of some of Siberia's most iconic places.

More than 20 new deals on energy, investment and education are inked in Beijing.

The Kremlin's 'Mr Siberia' Viktor Tolokonsky tells 'Sphere of Influence' business magazine what our vast region means to him.

A Copenhagen scientific expedition is on its way to prepare a claim that vast energy wealth under the Arctic belongs to the Danish Crown.

Wind brought down power lines but one week later some locals are freezing as thermometers plunge to minus 20C.

Demands increased on 3 August for a 'state of emergency' to be declared on the world's fifth longest river due to a catastrophic shortage of water.