Nowhere in the world runs its roads, trains and airports as well as Siberia during the harsh winters.
In earlier case, brown bear plundered graves and ate human remains.
Place your bets as Russia takes on Macau and Las Vegas to woo Pacific gamblers.
Getting to Siberia for foreigners has never been easier.
Hi-tech technologies have been used to track smoke plumes from forest fires burning across eastern Russia as they cross the Pacific.
Tribute for Druzhok who swam back to his own home to protect it against the rising tide of water, and became a symbol of hope.
Countless political prisoners perished here cut off from the world - but today Kolyma finally is getting connected.
The death toll from unusually heavy snowstorms rose to ten at the weekend.
Kamvari Architects won an open international competition to design information kiosks along the world's most famous rail route.