Your guide is the Chairman of the Tuva Republic's government, Sholban Kara-Ool.
Kara-ool Dopchun-ool - the highest shaman in the Tuva Republic, and also Turkey - explains his role in his own words.
Revealing pictures of Siberian ruins as new royal theory may explain this remote 8th century summer schloss.
The Siberian Times is online again after overcoming technical problems, bringing you news and pictures again from the east of Russia.
Pictured: the gleaming riches no-one was meant to see belonging to an ancient nomad potentate, and his queen...or was she his concubine?
A gargantuan investment in economic development across many eastern Russian regions was confirmed in Irkutsk by En+ Group.