Marriott opens prestigious new hotel on 16 June in Novosibirsk, Siberia's biggest city.

Government announces $1.8 bln package, while volunteers from all over the wolrd collect more than 450 tonnes of trash from the shoreline of the unique lake.

Husband watches as wife is carried away by fast moving mud river after major flooding.

Most fires will not be extinguished, with major cities polluted by fumes.

Famed for the purest water on the planet, but this 'is no longer true' with 'no drinking' warning in southern part of lake.

More than 400 volunteers from across Russia on Sunday cleaned up the world famous lake.

Troops and government ministries checked 'for fulfilling tasks under wartime conditions'.

Rare historic pictures show Russia's last tsar as the first builder of the Trans-Siberian Railway 125 years ago this month.

Finds of 'lion-hunting ancient man' excavated from site of new road new Lake Baikal now undergoing tests  at Germany’s Max Planck Institute.